C.Y.C. CAMP.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20367, 26 July 1934, Page 12

C.Y.C. CAMP.

Instruction for Officers at Burnham. A course of instruction for officers and non-commissioned officers of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment will be held at*Burnham from Thursday next, August 2 until August 8. Ten officers and twenty-four noncommissioned officers, including six candidates for first appointment to a commission, will attend the course. The examinations for the candidates will take place next month. The course at Burnham will consist of dismounted training in the mornings and mounted training in the afternoon. The subjects for the dismounted training will be dismounted drill, musketry, map-reading, message-writing, and reports, and tactical training on a sand table. The men will be organised as a troop for the mounted training, and the work will consist of mounted drill and the carrying out of tactical schemes. Lectures will also be delivered in the afternoons. Captain K. J. Walker, adjutant of the unit, will be in charge of the camp and will be the chief instructor. Lieutenant F. L. Davis, N.2.5.C., will attend as an additional instructor. A series of week-end bivouacs will be held for the regiment later in the year, and final arrangements in this connection will be made during the course at Burnham, 'The proposed locations for the bivouacs are as follows:—A. Squadron, Rangiora: B Squadron, Ashburton; C Squadron, Albury Park. The allocations are the same as last year, when very successful week-end camps were held.