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 | |