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Military Note

The local infantrymen will leave for garrison duty at Fort Lytton on Sunday night. The 4th (Wide Bay) Regiment will be passing through Gympie by the 11.30 p.m. train on Sunday, and they will be joined by the members of “B” and “H” companies. The regiment, which consists of eight companies, brass band, signallers, and regimental staff, will then be complete, and will proceed by train to Wynnum, from whence they will march to Fort Lytton, about three miles distant. At the fort they will take over the equipment of the 11th (Darling Downs) Regiment, whom they are relieving. The regiment will be on duty for a fortnight.

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Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette, 10 October 1914

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Easter Manoeuvres.
Troops Going to Lytton.

The Easter encampment at Lytton will commence as from Saturday next, but most of the troops will by that time have reached their quarters. Already on the ground and in the forts are the Australian Garrison Artillery, under Major Larsen, Australian Engineers, and Australian Field Artillery.
The main body of troops, numbering over 1,000, will go into camp tomorrow. These will include the 9th Moreton Regiment, the Queensland Rifles, Army Service and Army Medical Corps, and Brisbane Grammar School and State school cadets.
The Moreton Regiment will march to camp, but the Cadets and the Army Service and Medical Corps will go down by the Lucinda, which leaves the Queen’s wharf on Friday morning.
Colonel Plomer, the Commandant, left Brisbane this morning for the Tiaro camp. Owing to the illness of Lieutenant-colonel Fortou, Colonel Flewell-Smith will take command of the camp at Lytton. Major

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Garrison Artillery.
Training at Lytton.

The No. 1 Company Queensland Garrison Artillery proceeded to Lytton on Saturday last and carried out their annual competitive practice at two Hongkong targets towed across the river between Luggage Point and Fisherman Island. The practice was under the supervision of Majors Clark, S.O.A. (umpire), and Antill (range officer); the other officers present were Major Larsen and Lieutenants Groom and O’Mears.
The first series was fired from the 6-inch disappearing guns at a range varying from 2,500 to 3,000 yards, and was only fairly satisfactory, the shooting being slow owing to the guns not recoiling far enough, and having to be pumped down into the loading position, thus causing a delay of from 40 to 50 seconds after each round.
The targets were then brought in to about 1,800 yards from the fort, and the second series fired from the 6-pounder Hotchkiss quick-firing

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New Fort At Lytton.
Plans Being Prepared

Brisbane, Saturday.
An important project in connection with the defences of the port of Brisbane is that for the construction of new fortifications at Lytton, by means of which it will be possible to completely command the entrance to the river. Some time ago the rough outlines of a scheme of this nature came before the Government, and after thorough consideration it was decided to have plans prepared for a new fort on what is known as Reformatory Hill, at Lytton. Ground plans of the proposed site were accordingly drafted, and these have been sent to London, in order that complete plans of the fort may be prepared by British military experts. The idea is to obtain two or three big guns having a long range, by means of which the approach of an enemy’s ship to the shores of Moreton

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