BRITISH ARMY HANDBOOK
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1s soon asthe BEF went to war the number
required leapt to 165000, with the atonal
horses being needed to bring the infantry
divisions up to extablshment, to keep the
supply chain moving and to replace casuals
Remount commissions across the Unit
Kingdom and North America made up the
et
TE 100k time to procure horses and new
fiders and drivers had to pracise moun
and asmounting with wooden horses, Many
animals were undernourished and vnshod
when they arrived and stabling was in short
supply Hamesses and saddles arrived much
Tater and the first stocks were a mixture of
egulution, clan and colonial designs.
MEDICAL CLassiricarion
Witchener's cll for volunteers heralded a
short period of unrestricted enlistment that
‘erable the facies for examining men
The Army was used to $0,000 recruits year
Dut there were 500,000 in September 1014
lone: Medical inspectors supervised RAMC
officers as the ns but
the latter were ith
the BEF. Givilian examine 5 6a
for each recruit and, with =
admitted,
The Army limited recruit
1914 and examiners were +
‘examinations a day; fees wer
recruit turned out to be unt