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Working copy to Q. M. G.
Copy to G. S. (S, D. 1.)
APPENDIX 198.
DIARY No. 11463.
Telegram P., No. X.-5357, dat-ed 13th February 1919.
(Despatched 8-25 p.m., received 10 a.m., 13th February 1919.)
From—The General Officer Commanding, Force “ D ”, Baghdad,
To—The Delhi.
(Repeated Inspector-General of Communications, Basrah.)
Your 8825 (Q.M.G.-13), February 3rd, and I. G. C. wire S 6966, February
7th (Diary No. 10032). In this Force Equine pneumonia is non-existent.
Disease may be ship pneumonia due to faulty ventilation. Have no protective
vaccine for this here. If available in India please supply.
Can you supply veterinary supervisers as there are none available in
this Force.
Working copy to Q. M. G.
Copy to G. S. (S. H-l, S. I).-3).
APPENDIX 199.
DIARY No. 11477.
Word node telegram No. 11477-S. D. 1, dated 13th February 1919.
(Despatched 8-15 p.m.)
From - The Commander-in-Chief iu India, Delhi,
To—The Secretary, War Office, London.
Baghdad’s 0-418 of February 11th (Diary No. 11086). Proposals sup-
ported.
Record copy to G. S. (S. D. 1) with Q. M. G.
Copy to M. S. C , G. S. (S. D.-2), A. G.
148 C. G. S.
APPENDIX 200.
DIARY No. 11479.
Memorandum No. A.-2619—2, dated 24th January 1919.
(Received in War Section, 13th February 1919.)
p rom —The General Officer Commanding, F'orce “ D ”,
To—The Secretary, ar Office, London.
(Copy to Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Delhi.)
In order that the experiences gained during this campaign as regards
the administration of the Chaplains’ Department in the field may not be lost
sight of the following remarks are forwarded
2: Until the winter of 1916-17 the Chaplains in this Force belonged
mainly to the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment. The system existing in
India, by which the Indian Ecclesiastical Department is essentially a civili m.
department, is not satisfactory from the point of view of military require
ments in the field.
Paragraph 390, Army Regulations, India, Volume 2, is sufficient argu
ments without further comment.
The proposal was accordingly put forward by my pt-odecessor, that, m
future as far as this Force was concerned, the Chaplains of the Indian
Ecclesiastical Establishment serving in this country should tfso facto become
temporary Chaplains of the Army Chap!a.ins , Department with certain condi
tions and that the organisation of the Chaplains’ Department in the Mesopo
tamian Expeditionary Force should be administered by the .War Office. These
proposals were agreed to, and in order that a proportion of the . Indian
Ecclesiastical Chaplains in India should have experience of active service con
ditions it was agreed that a certain proportion of the Chaplains serving in this
Force should be members of that Establishment. If there is no objection to
the system of attaching Chaplains of the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment
to the Army Chaplains’ Department, I see no reason why it should not con
tinue under the post helium conditions.
The arrival of the Reverend A. C. E. Jarvis from Egypt, where he was
Assistant Principal Chaplain, was all that was now needed thoroughly to con
sider the local organization and put the proposals of my predecessor into force.
I am glad to be able to record my opinion that from that time onward
the organization greatly improved, and that the Department has, in spite of
temporary shortages of personnel, fully uphold the traditions of the Army
Chaplains* Department.