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An Infantry Battalion in 1914, at full war establishment, consisted of 1,007 all ranks, of whom thirty were Officers. It was commanded by a Lieutenant Colonel with a Major as second-in-command, a Captain or Lieutenant as Adjutant and an officer commissioned from the ranks as Quartermaster. Attached to the Battalion headquarters was a Medical Officer.
The headquarters also included:
- Warrant Officer as Regimental Sergeant-Major.
- A number of Staff-Sergeants and Sergeants:
- Quartermaster-Sergeant
- Sergeant-Drummer
- Sergeant-Cook
- Pioneer-Sergeant
- Sergeant-Shoemaker
- Transport-Sergeant
- Signaller-Sergeant
- Armourer-Sergeant (attached from the AOC)
- Orderly Room Clerk
- Corporal and four Privates (of the RAMC attached for water duties)
- Corporal and fifteen Privates as signallers
- Ten Privates as Pioneers
- Eleven Drivers for the horse-drawn transport
- Sixteen stretcher bearers
- Six Batmen for the officers
- Two orderlies for the Medical Officer
