_CONFIDENTIAL!_ _FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY_ SPECIMENS OF BRITISH TRENCH ORDERS ARMY WAR COLLEGE 1917 [Illustration] WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1917 WAR DEPARTMENT, Document No. 590. _Office of The Adjutant General._ WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, _May 15, 1917_. The following specimens of British trench orders are published for the information of all concerned. (2598135, A. G. O.) BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: H. L. SCOTT, _Major General, Chief of Staff_. OFFICIAL: H. P. McCAIN, _The Adjutant General_. CANADIAN CORPS TRENCH ORDERS. CONTENTS. SUBJECT. Paragraph. Duties 1 Sentries 2 Rifles, equipment, and ammunition 3 "Stand to" 4 Bombs and grenades, care of 5 Machine guns 6 Firing at aeroplanes 7 Trench sides, undercutting of 8 Sanitation 9 Time-tables and organization of work 10 Log books and trench store books 11 Communications 12 Alertness 13 Rum 14 Arrangements in case of attack 15 Working parties on front trench 16 Working parties outside the front trench 17 Precaution when our mines are exploded 18 Ration parties when found from front trenches 19 Rations and cooking 20 Vermorel sprayers 21 Reliefs: General 22 Points to be noted by company commanders 23 Guides 24 Smoking and talking 25 Rate of march to trenches 26 Procedure on arrival in trenches 27 Engineers 28 Chilled feet and frostbite, prevention of 29 CANADIAN CORPS TRENCH ORDERS. =1. DUTIES.=--(_a_) One officer per company and one N. C. O. per platoon will always be on duty.