No. 2 mans the left wheel; controls brake-rope; introduces the ammunition into the bore; assists in pointing.
No. 3 keeps No. 2 supplied with ammunition (first setting time-fuze and removing safety-pin) and assists the gunner in limbering and unlimbering.
No. 4 keeps No. 2 supplied with ammunition (first setting time-fuze and removing safety-pin).
No. 5 receives ammunition from No. 6; removes plugs from shrapnel; fuzes same; loosens cap of time-fuze, and issues prepared ammunition to Nos. 3 and 4.
No. 6 passes ammunition to No. 5; opens time-fuze cylinders, and brings up ammunition-mules as required.
At the command "Cease firing," Nos. 5 and 6 equalize ammunition in boxes.
Nos. 7, 8, and 9 attend animals.
TO PACK.
The mules are brought up at a trot, and stationed:
Gun-mule three yards in rear of trail and facing to rear.