of WAR VESSELS of certain types.

ROYAL NAVY: WAR VESSELS.

Britain and Foreign Countries)" and "Fleets (British Empire and
Countries)"].

(a) Excluding 12 Battleships converted from their original type to Depot Ships, &c.
(b) Excluding 20 Cruisers

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(c) Excluding 3 submarines of 3,520 tons (total) launched but subsequently cancelled.
(d) Excluding 1 submarine of 890 tons launched but subsequently cancelled.

ROYAL NAVY: PERSONNEL.

No. 131.-NUMBER OF OFFICERS, MEN and BOYS borne on the Books

NOTE,-Number borne during the War period includes Retired Officers, Pensioners, Royal Fleet Reserve, Royal Naval Reserves and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves.

No. 132.-NUMBER of the RESERVES (excluding RETIRED OFFICERS ROYAL

ROYAL NAVY: PERSONNEL.

of HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS, at the ROYAL MARINE DIVISIONS, &C. the Navy Estimates).

(a) Number borne on 15th August, 1914. The numbers borne on 15th July, 1914, were as follows:Royal Navy, 124,793. Royal Marines, 18,241. Coast Guards, 3,013.

(b) Number borne on 15th November, 1918.

(c) Royal Marine Police.

NAVY and ROYAL MARINES, and RESERVES serving in the FLEET).

REGULAR ARMY.

No. 133.-REGIMENTAL STRENGTH of the REGULAR ARMY, by ARMS, ALL RANKS, on 1st October in each year.

(Compiled from the General Annual Reports on the British Army.)

(a) The figures for these years include the Territorial Force. Prisoners of War are included except those of the Territorial Force for the years 1915, 1916 and 1917.

(b) The figures for 1919 and 1920 include that portion of the old Territorial Force not disembodied; those for 1920 do not include the new Territorial Force as reconstituted in February, 1920.

(c) Troops of the Indian Army borrowed from India, and employed on garrison duties in China, Singapore, &c; the figures for the 1st October, 1920, include, also, all Expeditionary Indian Troops employed under the War Office.

TERRITORIAL ARMY.

No. 134.-STRENGTH of the TERRITORIAL FORCE, by ARMS, ALL RANKS, on the 1st October from 1910 to 1913; and of the TERRITORIAL ARMY (as reconstituted in February, 1920) on the 1st October, from 1920 to 1924. (Compiled from the General Annual Reports on the British Army.)

(a) Separate details are not available for the years 1914 to 1919, when the Territorial Force was mobilized and serving with the British Forces in the Field.