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Indian Expeditionary Force 'D', General Routine Orders (incomplete) [109r] (230/774)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (379 folios). It was created in 28 Dec 1915-10 Jul 1918. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Lieut. General F, s
ROUTINE
BY
MA UDE,
Y, -
ORDERS .
Commanding I.E.F
C.E., C.M.G. D.S.O.
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Thursday, October 5 th, rgi6
Adjutant General’s Branch.
NIL.
F. F. READY, Brigadier-General,
Deputy Adjutant General.
ORDNANCE STORES
AND EQUIPMENT
Quartermaster General’s Branch.
1599. AH applications by Divisional and Corps Commanders, and O.C. Ahwaz,
for Ordnance Stores and Equipment in excess of authorised scales, should in future
be submitted to Director of Ordnance Services, G.H.Q.
RATIONS
1600. Reference Force Routine Order No. 1224, of 1915. The issue of fuel to
native ratings of the Inland Water Transport, while employed on land, is sanctioned
on the scale laid down for Indian Troops.
SADDLERY.
OFFICERS’
1601. In continuation of Force Routine Order No. 1340 current.
1. Saddlery, the property of mounted officers, will not be taken over by the
Ordnance Department at a valuation.
2. Mounted officers who have provided themselves with saddlery at their own
expense will be entitled to have it, kept up at the public expense, and on leaving the
Expeditionary Force will be allowed (if no longer in possession of the saddlery origin
ally provided by them) to take away, as their own property, a serviceable set of Service
saddlery.
3. Mounted officers who have not provided themselves with saddlery will be issued
with a set of Service pattern saddlery at the public expense. These officers will not
be allowed to take saddlery with them on leaving the Expeditionary Force.
4. Compensation for the excess value of private saddlery over that of Service
pattern cannot be authorised
5 Saddlery required under para. 3 will be demanded on indent from the Ordnance
Department in the usual manner. The name of the officer requiring the saddlery will
be stated on the indent. Issue will only be made from the Base Depot, where a record
will be kept of all officers so supplied.
Officers returning saddlery, on leaving the Expeditionary Force, should be careful
, Hair a receipt from the Ordnance Department, otherwise they will be liable to be
charged for the value of the saddlery issued to them.
H. 0. KNOX, Brigadier-General,
Deputy Quartermaster General.
3rd s. & M FIELD PRESS.
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- Content
The volumes contain the General Routine Orders [until 25 September 1916 referred to as Force Routine Orders] by the Commander of Indian Expeditionary Force D between 28 December 1915 and 10 July 1918, along with annexures to these orders and lists issued with the orders. Topics covered include:
- Appointments and promotions
- Equipment and supplies
- Clothing and rations
- Arrangements for postal and telegraphic communications
- Changes to the organisation of Force D
- Details of those in receipt of honours and rewards
- Compensation awarded
- Interpreters: discharges, postings, and transfers
- Accounts and expenditure
- Pay and allowances
- Reports and forms to be submitted
- Details of Courts Martial
- Local temperature readings and other meteorological observations
- Lists of candidates who have passed the Field Service Tests in Arabic and Turkish.
There are also Orders of the Day relating to the above subjects, as well as two Special Orders of the Day containing messages to the armed forces from George V of Great Britain and Ireland (f 95) and Mary, Queen Consort of George V (f 367).
- Extent and format
- 2 volumes (379 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: this file consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio of volume one (ff 1-188) and terminates at the last folio of volume two (ff 189-378); these numbers are printed and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers of the two volumes. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly, f 308a.
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- Title
- Indian Expeditionary Force 'D', General Routine Orders (incomplete)
- Pages
- front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-b, back-b, spine-b, edge-b, head-b, tail-b, front-a-i, 1r:188v, back-a-i, front-b-i, 189r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:378v, back-b-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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