LORD KITCHENER'S ORGANISATION.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13591, 5 October 1914, Page 2

LORD KITCHENER'S ORGANISATION.

-Op. - THE NEW BRITISH ARMY

According to the War Press Bureau the prompt response given to Lord Kitchener's appeal for volunteers enabled him early in August to decide on and define the framework to be employed and to make all necessary arrangements for the infantry training. Six divisions are to be formed, in the designation and employment of which territorial interests have been remembered. The divisions will be known as:—The Scottish, the Irish, the Northern, the Western, the Eastern, the Light Infantry. The divisions will consist of three brigades, the, names of whose battalions are well known in the history of the army. Composing, for instance, the first brigade of the Scottish Division will be the Black Watch, the Seaforth Highlanders, the Gordon Highlanders, and the Cameron Highlanders. Shorncliffe is a convenient centre for the Eastern Division, and the facilities which it, affords are held to compensate for any increase in the distance from Norfolk and Suffolk homes. The Western Division will assemble on Salisbury Plain, the convenience of which for the purpose of training is well known. The Curragh is the natural station of the Irish contingent, which will consist throughout its ranks of Irishmen. The station of the North-

em Division has not yet been decided upon. A suitable training ground will shortly be selected. The name "Light Division" may recall the time of Wellington's advance in the Peninsula, when Craufurd's Light Brigade of 1809 developed into the. Light Division of 1910. The defence made by the Light Division of the day for five months on a long front against an enemy of six times its own strength is well" known in military history. The King's Royal Rifles and the Rifle Brigade compose the first brigade of the new Light Division.—"New Zealand Herald."