In case of need, the troops, or at any rate the majority of them, would mobilise at Aldershot. The departments there are quite ready for them, The Ist Class Army Reserve, as a whole, will not be called upon, hut sufficient of those Reservists of the regiments chosen will he taken to make up the battalions to estal after casting out those under age and unfit for active s-rvice.
The force has not b-en drawn entirely from the Ist Army Corps, but from the Ast, Qnd, and 3ed Army Corps. The particular Army Corps has had sno significance in selection, since battalions will be made up to the required strength from older and well-trained men of the Reserve. rae 13rm musars.
'The 13th Hussars have been chosen, although they are nominally a lower establishment resiment. In point of fact, however, the reduction of men and horses hus not' been carried out, so that their ication does not signify.
he Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot are hourly expectation of orders, and Of the first units to move, ated Tafantey will nat act with The New South Wates Lancers are with the brigade.
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