On the arrival of the first detachment in France on 23rd May, the Director of Transport decided that the contingent should release for other service, and take the place of, the Army Service Corps _personnel_, forming the following companies:— No. 22 Auxiliary Horse Transport Company, A.S.C., stationed at Dunkirk and Calais. No. 5 Auxiliary Horse Transport Company, A.S.C., stationed at Boulogne. No. 2 Auxiliary Horse Transport Company, A.S.C., stationed at Havre. No. 8 Auxiliary Horse Transport Company, A.S.C., stationed at Rouen. No. 10 Auxiliary Horse Transport Company, A.S.C., stationed at Rouen. No. 11 Auxiliary Horse Transport Company, A.S.C., stationed at Rouen. Arrangements were also made for a base depot to be established at Havre. The reorganization was commenced at once, one company of the first draft going to Calais and the two others to Rouen. As other drafts arrived they were sent to the base depot for three weeks, where they were equipped, and went through a course of training before being distributed to the various A.S.C. companies. Thus by the 31st August the Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport detachments had released the whole of the white _personnel_ of six companies of the Army Service Corps, with the exception of five officers and a certain number of warrant officers and N.C.O.’s, whose services it was proposed permanently to retain, while after a few months in France the reorganized companies were all commanded by officers of the detachment. Though the men did very excellent work at the base posts, Colonel Anderson felt that there were strong arguments in favour of them being moved to divisional trains or Army Auxiliary Horse Transport companies actually working in the army areas. The arguments in favour of the move from a South African point of view were unanswerable. The environments at the base posts were not good, and the work of the men chiefly lay in the lower quarters of the towns where liquor-sellers and their customary associates resided. It is greatly to the credit of the men that their general conduct was exemplary in spite of the adverse conditions under which many of them worked.