Sir John Monash, Personal Files Book 2, 23 February - 31 March 1915, Part 3

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N.C.O. and 1 Rank and File per Company etc., from each  
unit)  will march in formed bodies under the senior  
Officer in rear of the Main Guard of the Advanced  
Guard. 
This Officer will report himself to the D.A.Q.M.G at  
the earliest opportunity. 
  
2. SYSTEM OF ALLOTTING BILLETS OR  
BIVOUACKS IN BRIGADE AREAS. 
  
When the Division is on the march from day to day, 
and as soon as it is known where the Division will  
halt for the night, the D.A.Q.M.G., accompanied by  
the Divisional Billeting Party, will proceed in advance  
and select Brigade Areas. 
Having fixed the Brigade Areas, the D.A Q.M.G. will  
drop the Brigade representative at the area assigned  
to him. 
The latter will then meet Regimental billeting parties  
as they come along, explaining to each unit its  
Regimental Area. 
Then, as the Brigade approaches, the Brigade repre- 
sentatives will likewise explain the extent of the area  
to the Brigade Major. 
The troops in each Brigade Area will generally consist  
of either:- 
a) The Advanced Guard, or 
b) Brigades, with a certain proportion of Divisional  
troops, or 
c) any organisation approximately equal to a Brigade. 
  
3. DISTRIBUTION OF BRIGADE AREAS TO UNITS. 
a) The D.A.Q.M.G., ON ARRIVAL IN THE AREAS  
to be occupied, will proceed at once to the Municipal  
Authorities, notifying the hour when the troops may  
be expected, obtaining information re disease, infected  
houses, water supply, sanitation etc., and commun- 
icating the same to Brigade representatives. 
b) Commanders of Brigade areas will distribute the  
accommodation allotted to them to units under their  
Command, at the same time handling over billeting  
demands, together with any instructions to be observed  
by inhabitants, to representatives of units. 

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If time permits, the Municipal Authorities will  
prepare billeting orders, which will be handed to  
Brigade representatives for distribution to Regimental  
Billeting Parties. 
These will be presented to inhabitants on whom  
men and horses are to be quartered. 
c) REGIMENTAL BILLETING PARTIES 
Representatives of units will proceed with their  
billeting parties to localities apportioned to them,  
take over their Regimental areas, and arrange for  
units to be met and guided to their billets. 
Representatives of units etc., will be in possession  
of a statement showing the numbers of Officers,  
men, and horses for whom accommodation or food  
is required. 
They will notify the hour when the troops may be  
expected, and obtain information re disease, infected  
houses, water supplies, sanitation etc., communicating  
the same to units. 
The Regimental Parties will mark the doors with  
the names of Officers, Nos. of men and horses to  
be accommodated, removing the marks before  
departure. 
The Officer in charge of the Regimental Billeting Party  
will select and mark the position of:- 
1. Regimental Headquarters. 
2. Guard Room. 
3. Sick Inspection Room. 
4. Gun and Transport Parks. 
He will ascertain the most suitable lines for communicating  
with neighbouring units, and the best roads.  
He should prepare a sketch, notify all arrangements to 
the men of his party, and send them to meet and guide  
Companies to their billets. 
a) IF TIME IN NOT AVAILABLE, the following system will  
be adopted:- 
A Party from each Brigade Area will proceed to the  
Municipal Authorities, present billeting demands and  
request their co-operation.  
The Municipal Authorities will notify the inhabitants  
and promulgate any military orders necessary. 
Meanwhile, billeting parties will roughly allot accomodation,  
areas being assigned to larger units, who will, in  
turn, allot streets or groups of houses to units.

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4. POINTS TO BE OBSERVED.

1. Staff Offices to be on Main Roads and easily found.  
   Staff Officers near their Offices.
2. Mounted men near their Guns, horses and wagons.
3. Both sides of a street to be occupied by the same unit.
4. Roads and communications must be kept clear, Guns  
   and Vehicles parked outside towns, if necessary. If  
   parked on roads, the first and last gun and vehicle  
   to have a light.

5. GENERAL RULES IN BILLETS OR BIVOUACKS. 
   1. Officers to visit men and horses at irregular intervals,  
   by day and night. 
   2. If necessary inhabitants to be disarmed and confined to  
   houses after a certain hour, streets to be patrolled. 
   3. When advanced billeting parties reach a village or farm,  
   precautions must be at once taken to prevent information  
   being conveyed to the enemy. The use of lights  
   by inhabitants will be controlled. 
   The Telephone system must be at once controlled. 
   No one will converse on military matters with 
    inhabitants. 
   4. Liquor houses to be placed under control. 
   5. Fire piquets will be established, if necessary. 
   6. If the enemy is within striking distance, villages in  
   front line will be at once prepared for defence, and  
   a portion of the troops holding them, will be in  
   constant readiness. 
   7. An Alarm Signal will be arranged and notified by  
   Divisional Headquarters. 
   8. Staff Officers will at once notify their addresses to  
   Headquarters. 
                             
   SANITATION 
   Most important. 
   Additional latrines, watering and washing places will  
   be constructed, as necessary. 
   Billeting Parties will make all necessary enquiries re  
   water supply, sanitation, and communicate precautions  
   necessary to the troops. 
   
   W.G.BRAITHEWAITE, Lt. Col., 
   General Staff,  
   N.Z. and Aust. Div. 

    

 Aerodrome Camp,                         
 Heliopolis (Egypt), 
 1-3-15.                                                 
  
O.C. Australian Intermediate Base,                                
CAIRO. 
  
Apropos of my conversation with you some few  
days ago relative to the transfer of Staff Sergeant  
Cunningham (Brigade Clerk of this Brigade)  
for duty at your office I regret that the transfer has been 
delayed owing to Sergeant Cunningham having contracted 
a slight illness. He is at present in Heliopolis Hospital,  
but from enquiries made this morning it has been ascertained  
that he will shortly b fit for duty again immediately 
on which he will be directed to report to you.   
                         
Signed 
for Colonel, 
Commanding Fourth (Australian) Infantry Brigade 
  
File 
Brethescormel

Brigadier      March/15   
  
NOTES 
FOR THE USE OF THE TROOPS IN DEALING  
WITH THE TURKISH INHABITANTS.   

CAIRO 
GOVERNMENT PRESS. 
1915  

NOTES 
FOR THE USE OF THE TROOPS IN DEALING  
WITH THE TURKISH INHABITANTS.   
  
CAIRO 
GOVERNMENT PRESS. 
1915

PREFACE. 
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The procedure to be observed on entering  
Turkish villages is such as is designated  
in the following pages. 
The object of giving the sentence in  
Turkish characters is to enable the interrogator  
to point out the question to the  
native in his own language.

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