Indian Expeditionary Force 'D', General Routine Orders (incomplete) [‎291v] (597/774)

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Arms, Equipment
and Clothing surplus
to requirements
Quartermaster Generals Branch.
_ ' ent and clothing surplus to the requirements of units in
843. (i.) All al ms egHiPE. to be made by the Q.M.G.'S. Staff of Corps or Divisions,
the field are, under ice om with Formations for transmission to the Advanced Base
guard and nosecap.
Telephones or parts of telephones.
Dial sights.
] Directors.
Carriers, dial sights.
the body. bQ tize
Mekometers.
Reels, cable, No. 1.
Cable Drums.
Optical Instruments.
Banesineenoes which cannot be used for the manufacture of new shoes,
should be packed, when possible, in empty horse shoe boxes.
Empty horse shoe boxes if complete with lids. .
Serviceable metal fittings of all components of vehicles.
Wheels and pipe boxes. ■
These
All harness and saddlery. . .
Metals <>f every description from whatever source arising.
Horse hair from pack-saddle pannels and old mattresses. . .
Bicycle tyres and other articles composed wholly or mainly of rubber.
Empty oil and paint drums, kegs and casks.
Hoop iron from casks, etc.
(iii ) O.O.’s with Formations are to keep a record in book form of all the more
important’items handed over to them.
This record which will shew the unit from whom, and the date on which the stores
were received, is to include machine guns, ’rifles, vehicles, technical artillery stores,
complete sets of harness, saddlery and pack-saddlery, bicycles, telephone equipment and
other valuable stores—Q-108.
Caps, F.S.
844.
With reference to General Routine Order No. 661 of 1917. insert in the
anm xure thereto, page 2, between " Breeches
and " Frocks," “Caps, F.S. No. 1” and,
in the column of remarks " Tehri Garhwal I.S. Sappers."
[Authority — D.Q.M.G. No. Q/1344/13, dated November 25th, 1917.] — Q-99.
Fired Cases, Empty
Ammunition Boxes,
etc.
845. The following stores are to be returned through the medium of the Army
Ammunition Park, to the Advanced Base Ammunition Depot :—
Empty metal cartridge case of all natures of gun ammunition,
Empty small arm ammunition cases.
Fired tubes, friction, and tubes V.S.
Plugs, fuze hole special, No. 1.
„ „ „ 2-inch, No. 2.
| Metal and rubber fuze covers.
„ , ... , Fired primers.
Safety caps removed from D.A. fuses Nos. 44, 17 and 106.
Safety clips front 13 and 18 pdr. ammunition.
Projectile slings. | Fuze cylinders and tin boxes.
4.5" Howitzer cartridge case tins together with special rubber covers.
Unused cartridges and portions of cartridges, including all howitzer and trench
mortar cartridges.
Empty ammunition boxes of all natures.
Fired brass cartridge cases of 13 and 18-pdr. guns and 4.5" howitzer are to be
retm ed, packed as far as possible in the boxes belonging to those natures of
ammunition.
The following method of packing 13 and 18-pdr.. cases is to be adopted :—
I he clips having been first removed, the cases are packed in two layers, four*cases
on the bottom and four on the top layer. In the bottom layer the thin ends of two
cases, butt against the end of the box, and the thin ends of the other two against the
bases of the first pair. For the second layer the positions are. reversed.
"eat care is to be taken that explosives of any kind (such as cordite rings,
1 c ona oi s, fuzes etc,) are not left in packages returned as empties, or as containing fired
cases.
| a As far as is practicable, lists should be forwarded with each consignment, specifying
the different descriptions of packages despatched.
. i work ofrepacking fired cases etc., is to be carried out bv Artillery echelons,
and not at railheads.—Q-108.
Indents
Rations
Rifle Grenades —
Cartridges for
2nd 846. Withreference, to Paragraph 4, of General Routine Order No. 89, of
“ or >v "ary: 191 7, after the words ’ G.H.C at end of first paragraph add the words
Base when the ationed on 1 e L. of C. to I. .C.. except in the case of units at Advanced
ommandlant will submit a plications direct to G.H.Q.”—Q-1215.
Am and Whilst sufficient quantities or treoh vegetables are obtainable at the Base,
troops and followers atn“tati?Tesasbeafrosh vevetble ration for British troops, and Indian
ased to 16 ozs. and 10 ozs. respectively.
dated August Tseference to G.R.O. s. No. 69, dated January 27th, 1917 and No 522,
for issue, the use bei nassui a ble rifle grenade, 35 grain cartridges are now available
these cartridges now in ± lleted Mark VII. S.A.A. is to be discontinued. of
Depot through the Y Possession of troops should
—I — usual Channel.—Q-21^
Any of
be returned to the nearest Ordnance