The Archive · 1938

Indoor Intelligence Staff The Officers earmarked for Indoor

Intelligence duties, ie. certain Vol-untoer Officers whose duties are to collect and collate reports, keep the location maps, write up the War Diary and generally assist the Brigade Major and Staff Officer, were trained in their duties On Mobilization they were invaluable, especially at the rush time when these Headquarters were called upon to handle many duties quite apart from the Corps. In this con-rection it was found that the Permanent Staff, even with the help of the Volunteer staff, were so bound to the telephone that they could not get out and about sufficiently. The consequence was that Battalions in the line were not sufficiently visited, and did mot get the help, ad support generally, that they every right to expect.

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