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6. Company parades will be dismissed to pack their field kits and dress. Dress: Field service order, khaki, water bottles filled, 60 rounds s.a.a. in pouches.
7. Detachments for sections, other than Mainland Section, will carry their own kits to Kowloon Police Pier in time to embark on the launch detailed by the O.C. section or F.C. concerned.
8. A guard of one n.c.o. and 6 gunners, as well as three company storemen, will be detailed to remain in charge of barracks.
9. The Battalion Quartermaster-Sergeant will arrange to close all regimental institutes, offices, schools, &c., and hand the keys to the Master Gunner.
10. The Regimental Police will be detailed as a portion of the reserve, and will be under the orders of the Battalion Quartermaster-Sergeant, who will post one of them for duty at the native married quarters, and one at the British n.c.os. married quarters.
11. Manning details will fall in as soon as possible (or at a definite hour, if warning of mobilization has been previously given) with their kits.
12. Each detachment will be fallen out to pile their kits in a place previously marked and fall in again on parade.
13. Three escorts will be told off to each portion of the defences as under :-
1. For Kits.
2. For Camp Equipment.
Co. Q.M.-Sergt.
Co.
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3. Ammunition and Ordnance Stores.
Sergt.-Instructor
Co.
(a.) Chinlanchu and Customs Pass (b.) Tate's Cairn and Crown Point
(c.) Eagle's Nest
NOTE. The two highest numbers at each gun.
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Men as available from the reserve.
14. O.C. companies will provide copies of issue orders to the Quartermaster- Sergeants, who will march the above escorts 1 and 2 to Whitfield Barracks to take over coolies and draw A.O.D. equipment. They will call at barracks for kits and then escort coolies to their respective posts, distributing kits and stores correctly to each detachment.
15. The ammunition will be issued and distributed under orders which will be furnished to the Master Gunner.
16. Two days' cooked or preserved rations will be issued to each man marching out and carried in his haversack.
17. The 2·95-in. guns will move out at once to their posts with their guns on mules. (Mules should have been sent to barracks by O.C.A.S.C.)
18. Ammunition coolies will take out 2.95-in. ammunition before any other 100 rounds per gun.
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19. M. A. detachments, other than 2'95-in., will break off and remain in barracks until orders are issued by the Staff Officer as to means available for moving the heavier guns.
20. All kits belonging to individuals, which are left in barracks, will be locked in kit boxes on which the name and number of the owner be clearly marked.
21. All field kit bags must be clearly marked with name, number, and position on mobilization of owner.
22. After seeing kits and camp equipment to their proper posts, Quartermaster- Sergeants will return to barracks.
N.B.-Should orders to adopt war stage be received previously to the actual date of mobilization, all the arrangements herein detailed will, as far as possible, be carried out beforehand, and the companies fall in with kits packed at the specified hour.
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