There are 22 wagons, 52 riding horses, and 1 bicycle.
BALLOON COMPANIES, FOR RECONNAISSANCE
Three Balloon Companies are allotted as Army Troops, each to work one balloon and one set of kites, with telephones to connect the observer up in the captive balloon or kite with the ground.
The strength of a Company is 67, with 52 horses—namely: 3 Officers, 3 Sergeants, 1 Artificer, 1 Bugler, 59 rank and file, of whom 30 are available for the ballooning work.
There are 3 wagons for equipment, 6 reservoir wagons for gas, 8 riding horses, and 1 bicycle.
Note.—In the strength of all the above Engineer Units are included 2 men of the Medical Corps attached.
The above network of telegraphic inter-communication, extending between all Head-Quarters, is supplemented within the Units of the Field Force by a system of Signalling.
Each Division has a Divisional Signalling Officer, with a small detachment of Signallers—4 men in the Cavalry Division, and a Sergeant and 6 men in the Infantry Division.
Each Brigade has a Brigade Signalling Officer and 4 Signallers.
Each Cavalry Regiment and Mounted Infantry Battalion has a Signalling Sergeant, with 27 Signallers (9 per squadron).