ARMY ESTIMATES

AMOUNTS PROVIDED FOR MILITARY SERVICES IN CIVIL SERVICE AND OTHER ESTIMATES WITHOUT REPAYMENT FROM ARMY FUNDS.

FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1926 (ENDING 31ST MARCH, 1927).

[Total Force.]

NUMBERS ON THE REGIMENTAL ESTABLISHMENTS OF THE REGULAR ARMY, ARMY RESERVE, SUPPLEMENTARY RESERVE, TERRITORIAL ARMY, &c.

(a) Exclusive of additional numbers to cover temporary and occasional excesses over establishment (see p. 11). (b) Estimated maximum strength.

(c) Provisional establishment.

NUMBER OF MEN ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ARMY,
EXCLUSIVE OF INDIA.

FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1926 (ENDING 31ST MARCH, 1927). [Vote A.]

REGIMENTAL ESTABLISHMENTS.

For analysis of Regimental Establishments see pp. 14-27. Further details of Unit Establishments in the Cavalry, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Infantry, Royal Tank Corps and Royal Army Service Corps are given in Appendix IV, pp. 258-267. In Appendix V are given details of the total Establishments of the Royal Army Service Corps, Royal Army Ordnance, Royal Army Veterinary and Royal Army Pay Corps and the Royal Army Chaplains' Department (see pp. 268-271).

The numbers shown under Regimental Establishments for Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Army Ordnance Corps and other departmental corps include the officers &c., of those Corps employed on the Staff of Commands, but not those employed in Schools of Instruction and at the War Office. (The latter are included under Miscellaneous Establishments and War Office below.)

Cavalry. The increase in the Establishment is due to the return of one regiment of the line from India to the Home Establishment.

Royal Army Ordnance Corps.-The reduction in the Establishment is due to the completion of post-war terminal work.

Royal Army Chaplains' Department.-The Department has been transferred from Miscellaneous to Regimental Establishments. Chaplains serving with Schools, &c., are included in the establishment concerned.

Royal Army Pay Corps.-The Corps of Military Accountants is being disbanded and a new branch of the Pay Corps with a regimental establishment of 22 officers and 140 other ranks (in addition to 3 officers and 5 other ranks serving in the War Office) has been formed to deal with those cost accounts which are to be retained. The personnel of the Corps of Military Accountants selected for retention have been transferred to the Royal Army Pay Corps.

The Total Regimental Establishments, which include Colonial and Native Indian Troops (see p. 11) as well as British, are as follows:

For Geographical Distribution see pp. 28-9.

PERMANENT STAFF OF SUPPLEMENTARY RESERVE, TERRITORIAL ARMY, &c.
Supplementary Reserve. For total provisional establishment see p. 65.

Territorial Army.--For total establishment see p. 64.

STAFF..

Staff of Commands &c.-The Staffs of Commissions Abroad have been reduced in anticipation of the early withdrawal of the Commission of Control in Germany, and there is a reduction of the Staff in Egypt.

Artillery Schools.-These are the School of Artillery at Larkhili and the Coast Artillery School at Shoeburyness. The increase in the establishment of officers at the Schools in 1926 is due to a decision to second a number of officers to advanced classes and to the Gunnery Staff Course (see p. 89).

Boys' Technical School.-The final stage in the expansion of this School will be reached during the year when the establishment of boys under training will be raised to 990 (including a certain number borne on Regimental Establishments), as against an establishment of 880 in 1925.

Colonial and Native Indian Troops.-For details see p. 27.

Native Indian Troops in the Middle East.-The cost is borne on the Vote for Middle Eastern Services. In 1926, certain ancillary troops, &c., formerly borne on Army Vote A, have been transferred to Air Vote A.