Daily Casefile · Audit

The Overloaded Requisition

≈ 6 min

Quartermaster Sergeant Elliot Crane has submitted a requisition schedule to the Ordnance Depot at Aldershot claiming replacement materiel lost or expended during the Ypres sector rotation of C Company, 14th Battalion, in April 1917. The depot comptroller has flagged the schedule for audit before authorising release of stores, noting that one or more line entries may not accord with the battalion's own certified returns. Your task is to examine each line of the requisition against the cross-reference records and identify whichever line is discrepant and which record reveals the conflict.