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Employment.Manoeuvres have been carried out by Infantry, Artillery and Tank units. An N.C.O.T.U. has been set up and is functioning with satisfactory results.

Security.-Satisfactory.

Welfare.-General de Gaulle dined with the Officers at the Institute on Christmas Eve, where a special dinner had been provided through the good offices of Lord Bessborough's Committee.

Morale. Steadily improving.

Seamen's Hospital, 25 Gordon Street, W.1.

Strength-

w

Army

Air Force

Navy

Merchant Navy

Morale.-Good.

Officers.

N.C.Os. Other Ranks.

25

66

198

10

17

27

1

3

33

3

4

43

(iii) Air Force.

13. At the R.A.F. Franco-Belgian Air Training School at Odiham about 165 hours' flying have been carried out on the average each week. Progress has been slower than was hoped because most of the French pupils had had less experience than had been expected.

Sixteen Free French pilots have been serving in R.A.F. squadrons during the

month.

B. POLES.

(i) Navy.

14. Plymouth again report on the high standard of morale, of discipline and keenness.

Thirty Polish midshipmen are now at sea for 6 months' training in British battleships and cruisers.

(ii) Army.

15. Strength.-Kinross: 4,428 Officers, 13,287 Other Ranks.

Accommodation.-All troops are in billets or huts. R.E. services heating arrangements are making satisfactory progress. Huts for N.A.A.F.I. have arrived at Tentsmuir, Ladybank, Dairsie.

Equipment. The following has been issued during the month :--

Tanks, Infantry Mk. III ...

25-c.m. Hotchkiss A.Tk. guns Rifles, 303-in.

Bayonets

Vickers guns

Brens (100 Lewis guns withdrawn)

2-in. Mortars

Trucks, 15-cwt., 4-whd., Office

...

Lorries, 30-cwt., 4-whd., Portee (to be changed to

tractors when the guns are pneumatized) .

6

12

100

100

18

200

6

5

18

Employment.-Holding the Fife-Angus sectors. Training continues; various attachments have been carried out with III Corps Signals and to 71st A.A. Regiment. Polish Officers have been attached to Headquarters, Perth, for liaison and instructional training. Administrative war games have taken place with special attention to the methods of supply and maintenance.

Brigadier Wilson made a 2-day tour of the Fife-Angus Sector. Security. Satisfactory, and close contact has been maintained with Scottish tommand.

Welfare. Satisfactory. Arrangements were made for extra Christmas fare. No. 2 Mobile Field Hospital has been opened at Dupplin Castle. Morale.-Good.

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