NAM.1994-05-10-7

File marked ‘Miscellaneous Schemes’ contains: manuscript ‘Précis of minute by HE the Commander-in-Chief in India in regard to the efficiency of the Army Administration in India...’, with typescript copy of minutes; Military Administration scheme, relates to Kitchener’s reorganisation; memorandum on the principles on which the Army is maintained; scheme for the mobilisation of an infantry battalion stationed at Aldershot; artillery scheme relating to the combination of gun and rifle fire; Colenso artillery scheme - a re-enactment of Colenso using the students own disposition; Magersfontein scheme; artillery scheme - relating to the selection of a defensive position during a withdrawal; cavalry scheme No 1 and 2; Indoor Cavalry scheme No 3 and 4; Intelligence and communication scheme - based on a Napoleonic Wars scenario; papers on machine guns; memorandum on the use of General Reserves; organisation and training of cyclist detachments for communication duties; ceremonial scheme; camping scheme; communication scheme; supply and transport scheme; reconnaissance and Administrative scheme; supply scheme. From a collection of papers collected by Capt D S Robertson, Royal Scots Fusiliers, while attached to the Japanese Army in Manchuria 26 Feb to 16 May 1905, and at Staff College 1909-1910.

Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)