28 April 1944 Part 3

28 April 1944 Part 3 Channel Islands reserve targets

Date note: 28 April 1944 order.

Annex 3 to Seventh Army Headquarters Chief Quartermaster Qu 1 No 1870/44 Secret Command Matter dated 28 April 1944

Required reserve levels

a Ammunition

The level of reserves is ordered in Seventh Army Headquarters, Chief Quartermaster/Qu 1/Ammunition No. 40/44, Secret Command Matter, dated 18 April 1944.

b Fuel

aa Coastal defence: infantry division, 3 consumption units; armoured division, 5; Channel Islands, 7.

bb Other troops: infantry division, 3 consumption units; armoured division, 5.

cc Formations moving into or out of the Army area: infantry division, 3.5 consumption units; armoured division, 5.

c Food and fodder

aa Permanent troop stocks

1. Permanent reserve: emergency food and fodder rations; initial allocation of four daily food allowances and three daily fodder allowances; special allocation under paragraph 30 B of Army Regulation 86/1 where applicable.

2. Current supplies: food for at least two days and fodder for five days.

3. Required stock at divisional supply offices: food for ten days and fodder for twenty days.

bb Required coastal-defence reserves

Food and fodder for the total strength: 56 daily allowances.

1. Food is to be dispersed as follows: resistance nests, 7 daily allowances; strongpoints, 14; strongpoint groups, 14; Nantes defence area, 30; fortresses, 56, together with 56 daily fodder allowances.

The difference between the required reserve under bb and the quantities actually dispersed under aa 1, aa 2 and bb 1 is held in the Army supply depots.

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2. Consumables

Fuel for heating, soap and washing materials, and lighting fuel.

Heating fuel: a total of 2.5 kg of coal per man per day. Reserve periods: resistance nests, 7 days; strongpoints, 14; strongpoint groups, 14; fortresses, 56. Kindling according to need. Bakery and slaughtering establishments installed in fortresses: for 56 days.

Soap and washing materials: fortresses, for two months, in accordance with Army Administrative Gazette (C), 1942, No. 334 and its supplements. In addition, divisional supply offices hold one month’s reserve for the division’s strength and attached personnel.

Lighting fuel: per carbide lamp per day, 100 g carbide, with one spare burner for every ten lamps; or per paraffin lamp per day, one eighth litre of paraffin, with one spare wick and one spare glass for every ten lamps; or, where these lighting materials are unavailable, one candle or two Hindenburg lights per two men per day.

cc Required reserves for the Channel Islands

Food: 90 daily allowances.

Hard fodder: 90 daily allowances.

Rough fodder: 90 daily allowances.

Consumables such as coal and soap: 90 daily allowances.

General note

Coal, soap and washing materials are to be requested from Army headquarters; other consumables from the responsible Army accommodation administrations. Difficulties in supply by those administrations are to be reported immediately to Seventh Army Headquarters, IVa.

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