Chapter I: Front Matter

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FIELD ARTILLERY TRAINING.

1914.

GENERAL STAFF, WAR OFFICE.

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This Manual is issued by command of the Army Council. It deals with the general principles which are to govern the training in peace and leading in war of Horse, Field, Mountain, and Heavy Artillery, and forms the basis of the Training of R.G.A. Companies armed with movable armament. The attention of commanders is drawn to “Training and Manœuvre Regulations,” Section 2.

Any enunciation by officers responsible for training, of principles other than those contained in this Manual, or any practice of methods not based on those principles, is forbidden as tending to cause confusion of thought and to prejudice successful co-operation in war.

WAR OFFICE, S.W.
_9th April, 1914_.

CONTENTS.

Sec. Page.

DEFINITIONS 1

CHAPTER I.
PRINCIPLES OF TRAINING.

1. Object and method of training 7
2. Responsibility for training 8

TRAINING OF RECRUITS.
3. Preliminary training of recruits 10
4. Recruit training in the battery 14

THE ANNUAL TRAINING OF THE SOLDIER.
5. System of training 14

INDIVIDUAL TRAINING.
6. General instructions 15

COLLECTIVE TRAINING.
7. Section training 17
8. Battery training 17
9. Brigade training 19
10. Annual practice 20
11. Divisional artillery training 21
12. Training of Special Reserve and Territorial
artillery and of the artillery of the
Overseas Dominions 22

CHAPTER II.
DISMOUNTED DRILL WITH AND WITHOUT ARMS.

SQUAD DRILL WITH INTERVALS.
13. General instructions 23
14. Position and movements at the halt 24
15. Saluting 27
16. Movements 29

SQUAD DRILL IN SINGLE RANK.
17. General instructions 35
18. Movements 36

SQUAD DRILL IN TWO RANKS.
19. General instructions 38
20. Movements 39

RIFLE DRILL.
21. General instructions 44
22. Rifle exercises 44
23. Inspection of arms 51
24. Guards and compliments 53