Specimens of British Trench Orders

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CANADIAN CORPS TRENCH ORDERS.

SPECIMEN OF BATTALION TRENCH STANDING ORDERS.

BRIGADE STANDING ORDERS FOR THE TRENCHES.

55TH (WEST LANCASHIRE) DIVISION TRENCH ORDERS.

CONTENTS.

55TH (WEST LANCASHIRE) DIVISION TRENCH ORDERS. (2)

CONFIDENTIAL!

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

SPECIMENS OF BRITISH
TRENCH ORDERS


ARMY WAR COLLEGE


1917

illustration

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1917

War Department,
Document No. 590.
Office of The Adjutant General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, May 15, 1917.

The following specimens of British trench orders are published for the information of all concerned.

(2598135, A. G. O.)

By order of the Secretary of War:
H. L. SCOTT,
Major General, Chief of Staff.

Official:
H. P. McCAIN,
The Adjutant General.

CANADIAN CORPS TRENCH ORDERS.


CONTENTS.

SUBJECT.
Paragraph.
Duties 1
Sentries 2
Rifles, equipment, and ammunition 3
"Stand to" 4
Bombs and grenades, care of 5
Machine guns 6
Firing at aeroplanes 7
Trench sides, undercutting of 8
Sanitation 9
Time-tables and organization of work 10
Log books and trench store books 11
Communications 12
Alertness 13
Rum 14
Arrangements in case of attack 15
Working parties on front trench 16
Working parties outside the front trench 17
Precaution when our mines are exploded 18
Ration parties when found from front trenches 19
Rations and cooking 20
Vermorel sprayers 21
Reliefs:
     General 22
     Points to be noted by company commanders 23
     Guides 24
     Smoking and talking 25
     Rate of march to trenches 26
     Procedure on arrival in trenches 27
     Engineers 28
     Chilled feet and frostbite, prevention of 29

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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