(Press Association.) A NAVAL DIVISION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1914, Page 7

(Press Association.) A NAVAL DIVISION

READY TO TAKE THE FIELD SURPLUS FROM THE SEA SERVICE (Received September 8, 9 a.m.) m , . , . , LONDON, 7th September. The Admiralty announces that a large number of marines and naval reservists are left over after providing for all present and anticipated needs of the Nayy._ It is in a position to organise one marine and two naval brigades, to be called the Royal Navy Infantry Division, available for the Army when required. * Lord Fisher of Kilver3tone, Admiral Sir Arthur K. Wilson, and Lord Charles Beresford will be Honorary Colonels of the Division. [Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher, now Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, is probably the best known of the great British Admirals of the present generation. He is regarded as the founder of the modern British Navy and the originator of the Dreadnought fleet. Born in 1841, he saw active service in the Crimean War, 1854; China in 1859-60; Egypt and bombardment of Alexandria, 1882. He was First Sea Lord of the Admiralty from 1904-10. Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson is a year younger than Lord Fisher, and saw much the same service. He- succeeded Lord Fisher as First Sea Lord in 1910, and retired in 1912. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford was -born in 1846, and commanded -the Condor at Alexandria in 1882, and subsequently took part in the land operations, where he greatly distinguished himself. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet, 1907-9, and retired in 1911. He has been Unionist M.P. for Portsmouth since 1910. A division of infantry consists of three infantry brigades of four battalions each (a battalion consists of about 1000 men), and thus of 12,000 men. Normally, the three brigades are accompanied, and the division completed, by four field artillery brigades, a heavy battery, two companies of engineers, one signal company, a squadron of cavalry, and other troops. The division is, when complete, composed of 598 officers, 18,075 other ranks, 6161 hmorses, and 76 guns.]