Syllabus of Training.
60 days of 4 hours each.
| Employment. | Hours. | Remarks. |
| First Fortnight. | — | Equipment to be issued on joining. |
| Physical training | 10 | Physical Training, Sections 1 to 11 inclusive under Serjeant Instructor. |
| Physical training | 10 | Physical Training, Sections 1 to 11 under Squad Instructor. |
| Squad drill | 16 | Sections 5 to 23. |
| Lectures and catechism | 4 | |
| Second Fortnight. | — | Rifle to be issued. |
| Physical training | 8 | Physical training with apparatus under Serjeant Instructor. |
| Physical training | 8 | Physical Training, Sections 1 to 11 under Squad Instructor. |
| Squad drill | 7 | To Section 39. |
| Rifle exercises | 5 | |
| Musketry exercises | 7 | Musketry Exercises, Sections 1 to 3. |
| Lectures | 4 | |
| Marching order | 1 | |
| Third Fortnight. | ||
| Physical training | 8 | Physical training with apparatus under Serjeant Instructor. |
| Physical training | 6 | Physical Training, Sections 1 to 11 (Dummy Rifles to be used) under Squad Instructor. |
| Squad drill | 6 | To Section 44. |
| Rifle exercises | 5 | |
| Musketry exercises | 5 | Musketry Exercises to Section 9. |
| Skirmishing | 7 | Sections 45 to 49. |
| Lectures | 2 | |
| Marching order | 1 | |
| Fourth Fortnight. | ||
| Physical training | 7 | Commence Dumb-bell Exercises, Physical training, Sections 27 to 33, under Serjeant Instructor. |
| Physical training | 6 | Physical Training, Sections 1 to 11 (Rifles to be used) under Squad Instructor. |
| Squad drill | 5 | To Section 44. |
| Rifle exercises | 4 | |
| Skirmishing | 9 | Sections 45 to 57. |
| Musketry exercises | 5 | Musketry Exercises to Section 14. |
| Lectures | 2 | |
| Marching order | 1 | |
| Fifth Fortnight. | ||
| Physical training | 7 | Physical training with apparatus and bayonet fighting under Serjeant Instructor. |
| Physical training | 6 | Physical Training to Section 19 under Squad instructor. |
| Squad drill | 6 | To Section 44. |
| Rifle exercises | 2 | |
| Skirmishing | 7 | Sections 45 to 57. |
| Guards and sentries | 2 | |
| Musketry exercises | 7 | Musketry Exercises to Section 14 and 18 to 21. |
| Lectures | 2 | |
| Marching order | 1 | |
| Sixth Fortnight. | ||
| Physical training | 7 | Physical training with apparatus and bayonet fighting under Serjeant Instructor. |
| Physical training | 6 | Physical Training to Section 19 under Squad Instructor. |
| Squad drill | 4 | To Section 44. |
| Rifle exercises | 2 | |
| Skirmishing | 10 | Sections 45 to 57. |
| Guards and sentries | 2 | |
| Musketry exercises | 6 | Musketry Exercises to Section 14 and 18 to 21. |
| Lectures | 2 | |
| Marching order | 1 |
Note.—The course of instruction of the recruit in musketry training, rifle exercises, bayonet fighting, and physical training will be found in “The Appendix to Training Manuals.”
II.
Instructions.
1. Recruits will be formed for instructional purposes in squads, the maximum number of men in each squad should not exceed twenty.
2. The squad instructors will be most carefully selected. They must be energetic, thoroughly well trained in the art of instruction, and intelligent. They will remain with the same squad throughout the period of training, and will carry out the whole of the instruction, in physical training, drill, rifle and firing exercises, and skirmishing, except as noted in above table.
3. Training in drill, physical exercises, rifle and firing exercises, and skirmishing, is to be as varied as possible; the work for each morning or afternoon should include more than one of these subjects.
4. Equipment will be issued on joining, but will not be worn on parade for the first month. Riffles will be issued as soon as the commanding officer directs, certainly not later than the first fortnight.