Indian Expeditionary Force 'D', General Routine Orders (incomplete) [‎375r] (766/774)

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Supply of Ordnance
Stores to Forma
tions in the Field
811. 1. In order to speed up and systematize the supply of Ordnance Stores to
Formations in the Field, the following programme for the i-sue of stores demanded in
bulk has been prepared and is to be worked to in future at the Advanced Base : —
Nature of Stores.
INDENTS TO REACH
Advanced Base.
Trainor MAHELLA®
TO LEAVE
Advanced BASE.
Accoutrements, camp equipment harness
and saddlery, blankets, cotton waste, flannel
ette, etc., and small arms. (Vocab Sectns
1, 2. 5, 6, 1. and Weedon)
Dubbing, grease, oils, paint, soap, etc.
(Vocab Sectns. 9 and 10)
Clothing
Monday.
Tuesday.
Wednesday.
Thursday.
Friday.
Saturday.
* N.B. Where stores are sent forward by mahella via Hinaidi they should leave
the latter place by rail on the following day 1
2. Wherever possible Units detailed indents are to be consolidated by Ordnance
Officers of formations into one bulk indent on the Advanced Base.
3. Stores demanded in detail will be loaded in trucks with those demanded in
bulk
4. Bulk indents need not of necessity be sent in every week. If Formation
Commanders so desire, they may instruct their Ordnance Officers to hold back one or
more week’s indents and submit them in consolidated form at longer intervals - but if
thi- is done the Ordnance cannot be responsible for the delay in supply which may
result therefrom.
5 On the other hand where sufficient urgency exists indents for sores or clothing
are to be submitted by wire instead of being held back for the next bulk indent.
Stores or clothing so demanded will be sent forward at once from Advanced Base
regardless of the weekly programme
6. Bulk indents rendered by Ordnance Officers are to include anything outstanding
on the previous bulk indent. .
Units, however, should not re-indent for the same stores except in the circumstances
described in paragraph (7) below. . i
7. On the first of each month all indents for Ordnance Stores which have been
outstanding for two months will be an omatically canc lied. If any of the stores
included in such indents are still required, units concerned are to re-demand from the
Ordnancenvicerxehetisiro"senptlensy marked “RE-DEMAND,” and will quote the
number and date of the original indent and the authority for the issue of the stores
requiKednotification of cancellation need be made by units as on the first of each
month all indents bearing the unit’s date up to and includingthe last day of the third
month previous will be considered cancelled. For example: on the 1st of August
indents bearing the unit’s date up to and including the 31st May will be closed and no
furtheri"gF&ev"lelenos clot—ding indents and to can-el demands for stores,
which SvIn to changed conditions, are no longer required, commanding officers are to
satisfy themselves that no stor are re-demanded unless it is clear that supp y •
actually neces ary.—OB-4'5811/A/10..
NOTE —The above instructions apply only to Units who obtain their stores and
clothing through Ordnance Oilice s of Formations in the Field. I hey do not apply
Units who draw direct from an Ordnance Depot.
R. STUART-WORTLEY, Major-General,
Deputy Quartermaster-General.
NOTICES.
PosTAL.—Outward English mails dated London, the 30th May, are expected in
Bombay about the 10th instant.
It is proposed to hold an Old Cliftonian Dinner at the Maude Hotel on the 7th
ADEWt 0.0. attending kindly communicate early with Major-General Jones, G.H.Q.,
giving school joining and leaving dates.
ART EXHIBITION.
o - 1 pioloonaphers, Baghdad, have a small stock of both
Messrs. Victor & Co., Offic holding in reserve for sale to exhibitors
gas-light and self-toning papers Wzhi Baghdad Art Exhibition. This reserve paper will
of photographs at the forthco 55. in Baghdad, and not more than two packets
J. sold to a^'onetpXnt races As. 10 for half packets and Rs. 1/4 for .nil
packets. Cash to accompany all orders., elop, print and mount on rough brown paper
Messrs. Victor & Co. undertake to "evsiLlorg prints for « lasses E-1 and F-1 and
(other than for residents in s&erbdag. Art Exhibition, on behalf of their customers,
will despatch exhibits to theSecre ali’ken. Prices on application to Messrs. Victor.
AB’work Should be'endorsed on covers “For Exhibition.”