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CONFIDENTIAL!
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
SPECIMENS OF BRITISH TRENCH ORDERS
ARMY WAR COLLEGE
1917
WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1917
War Department, Document No. 590. Office of The Adjutant General.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, May 15, 1917.
The following specimens of British trench orders are published for the information of all concerned.
(2598135, A. G. O.)
By order of the Secretary of War: H. L. SCOTT, Major General, Chief of Staff. Official: H. P. McCAIN, The Adjutant General.
CANADIAN CORPS TRENCH ORDERS.
CONTENTS.
SUBJECT.
Paragraph.
Duties 1
Sentries 2
Rifles, equipment, and ammunition 3
"Stand to" 4
Bombs and grenades, care of 5
Machine guns 6
Firing at aeroplanes 7
Trench sides, undercutting of 8
Sanitation 9
Time-tables and organization of work 10
Log books and trench store books 11
Communications 12
Alertness 13
Rum 14
Arrangements in case of attack 15
Working parties on front trench 16
Working parties outside the front trench 17
Precaution when our mines are exploded 18
Ration parties when found from front trenches 19
Rations and cooking 20
Vermorel sprayers 21
Reliefs:
General 22
Points to be noted by company commanders 23
Guides 24
Smoking and talking 25
Rate of march to trenches 26
Procedure on arrival in trenches 27
Engineers 28
Chilled feet and frostbite, prevention of 29