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BRITISH ARMY HANDBOOK oS See i 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

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