A SCHEME OF A COMPANY TRAINING.

I give below, as an example of the application of the foregoing exercises, a scheme of company training which I actually carried out. This was in the days before platoons, so I have altered the scheme to show what I should have done had the company organisation been what it now is. I was given from Monday in one week to Saturday the next week to march out into camp, about 10 miles, and get back, i.e., two days of march, and ten halted working days. I had thirty-five rounds per man of ball cartridge available for field practice musketry, and a sufficiency of blank for the requirements of skeleton enemy and for use with the men in one or two of the exercises. My men were Regulars, and during the previous furlough season I had grounded them piecemeal in field work.

DAY.		Forenoon Work.	Afternoon Work.
1	Monday	March out to camp. March discipline and work of connecting files. Advanced guard. Sanitation. Water piquet and sanitary patrols. Pitched a perimeter camp as for savage warfare. Trenched tents against rain, and made a shelter trench round camp. Alarm posts.
2	Tuesday	Individual advance in extended order. Retirement by pairs.	Improved and deepened camp entrenchments, made loop-holes, night rests, and obstacles.
3	Wednesday	Platoon and Section in attack as part of Company.	Field practice Musketry:—Individual advance in extended order. 7 rounds ball per man.
4	Thursday	Platoon in independent attack.	Field practice Musketry:—Section in independent attack, 7 rounds ball per man.
5	Friday	Platoon in retirement.	Preliminary training for Company attack. Fire discipline and control.
6	Saturday	Company in attack with the battalion.	Prepared target positions and markers butts for snapshooting.
7	Monday	Company in attack with Battalion.	Snapshooting, 7 rounds per man.
8	Tuesday	Company in attack acting alone.	Snapshooting, 7 rounds per man.
9	Wednesday	Outposts.	Company in attack, 7 rounds ball.
10	Thursday	Defence.	Company in retirement.
11	Friday	Night attack. Parade at 2.30 a.m.	Hasty expedients.
12	Saturday	March back to quarters.