As regards the other Services, the Veterinary and Postal Services, and the Chaplains, do not generally form part of any higher Staffs than those of Divisions.
It will be seen that the system is so designed that in the main the business of Administration in detail falls on the Divisional and Army Corps Commands, while the Army Command is left free to concentrate its attention on the enemy.
The principles on which the Administration of an Army in the Field is organized for war as carried on at the present day, can be best understood by a study of the British Administrative Services. The general lines of their organization will be found described in Chapters [IX]. and [X].
CHAPTER VI
THE STAFF
Head-Quarters
Each of the various formations of Troops just described is completed by appointing its Commander and providing him with a Staff—that is, a body of Staff Officers to assist him in the duties of Command. The Commander and his Staff form what is known as the Head-Quarters of every Command. Those of the Commander-in-Chief are termed General Head-Quarters, those of an Army Commander Army Head-Quarters, and so on, down to Brigade Head-Quarters.
COMPOSITION OF HEAD-QUARTERS
Head-Quarters consist essentially of the Commander with his Personal Staff, and of the Staff Officers constituting the Staff proper, which it is the object of this chapter to describe in detail.