SPORTING SPIRIT
ARTILLERY AND A.S.C.
VOLUNTEER FOR THE INFANTRY.
Beports received from Featherston Camp state that recently an appeal was made to certain of the Artillery and Army Service Corps drafts in training to transfer for general service, as it had been decided to reduce the proportion of Artillery and A.S.C. drafts going to the front. The decision, it is gathered, is governed by the fact that casualties among the Artillery and A.S.C. at the front having been unexpectedly small, an excess supply of Reinforcements for these two arms of the service ha-s accumulated in the United Kingdom, and not so many from New Zealand, therefore, are required.
The Artillery and A.S.C. Reinforcements in the Dominion having enlisted for those particular arras of the service, and having done a considerable portion of their training, were naturally disappointed at the announcement, but it is understood that nevertheless they have practically unanimously volunteered to serve wherever they are required. In this they have displayed the true sporting spirit, and their action ranks with that of the Mounted Rifles, -who when appealed to some months ago, voluntarily transferred to the Infantry. The Mounted Rifles then won well-deserved applause, and there is little doubt that the conduct of the Artillery and A.S.C in the present instance will be similarly appreciated.
The Artillery have placed themselves in the hands of the instructors to sift them out for the various other arms as required. Some will be transferred to the Mounted Rifles machine-gun section, others to the Engineer drivers, and the majority to the Infantry. The A.S.C. men who volunteered will be merged into the Infantry, where their technical training as drivers should specially fit them foT the work of transport drivers with the Infantry.
The decision, it appears, does not apply to the whole of the Artillery and A.S.C. in training, the idea being to keep sufficient Artillery and A.S.C. men in hand to meet demands as they arise. ■ i.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 8
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325SPORTING SPIRIT Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 90, 13 October 1916, Page 8
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