The soldier's pocket-book for field service / by General Viscount Wolseley.

  • Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
Date:
1886
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Credit: The soldier's pocket-book for field service / by General Viscount Wolseley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ART I.] SUPPLIES OF MEAT: FIELD OVENS. [8'J i which there should always be 4 days’ complete supply for all the men and orses in the front. - or daily consumption the meat should be killed as soon as possible after re march for the following day’s consumption, and drawn by the Regtl. !■ Ms., together with all the other articles of the daily ration. As a tie, this meat will be kept in charge by the Q. Ms. in the carts or 'agons told off for the purpose until the end of the following day’s march, nd then issued to the companies. The bread or biscuit, together with all le other articles in the ration, will be issued to the companies the evening rev are drawn by the Q. Ms. from the Commissaries, and will be carried uring the following day’s march by the men for that day’s consumption, t nray occasionally be necessary to issue the meat to the companies also, 0 that it nray be cooked at once and carried by the men the following day Dr that day's consumption. , Supplies of meat must be obtained as much as possible in the countrv. hey will generally be driven to the front from the depots where they are ollected. At every stage proper arrangements should be made for their rotection and food: unless this is done, the loss of animals will be very reat before any drove reaches the army. You can never count on cattle oing more than 15 miles a day ; 12 is a safer calculation. On the march ith a force, meat should be killed every evening as soon as the march is ver, so that, as the animals are driven, no transport should be required ar it. In sending dead meat by rail or cart, it should be laid on straw, nd air freely admitted, the sun and flies being excluded. Packages in which preserved meat or other food is made up should, for onvenience in handling and distribution, never exceed 1 cwt. gross ; but as . rule their gross wt. should not exceed 50 or 60 lbs. so as to be easily landled by one man. The duties of an issuer are very onerous, and every ftoit should be made beforehand by having each box or package to contain : ™un^ number of rations each to reduce his difficulties as much as possible. |Vhen intended for hot countries, packing cases should be nailed not screwed town ; we found in the Soudan that when the wood shrank from the dry teat, the screws fell out, or were too easily removed for security. Trade :ases will not do for active service ; they are too flimsy; all stores to be used n the field should be specially packed by Military Departments at home. held Ovens. Armies taking the field now will carry with them steam or field wens (according to the nature of the service) for baking. The steam oven on a carriage) is easily drawn along roads by a pair of horses, and can be aken across country, wherever guns can pass, by four horses. It requires coke or heating, a fuel easily carried, with the extra advantage that a little goes 1 on?j way- 1 l'ese ovens will bake in each batch on an average 109 loaves 3 lbs., or 2 field rations each. It may be estimated that 4 batches of Dread will be turned out of one of them by fair tradesmen under ten hours,
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