Chapter IX: Battery Tactics

190. General instructions 293
191. Preparation for action 294
192. Reconnaissance of a position 295
193. Methods of occupying a position 297
194. Orders 300
195. Advance for action 302
196. To come into action 303
197. Duties of officers, etc., in action 308
198. Laying out the line of fire 310
199. Observation of fire 316
200. Look-out men 319
201. Control of fire 320
202. Methods of fire 323
203. Location of targets from aircraft 324
204. Observation of fire from aircraft 325
205. Signals from and to aeroplanes 328
206. Observation of fire from kites 329

RANGING.
207. General Instructions 330
208. To find the elevation 331
209. To find the fuze 334
210. To find the line 335

RANGING FOR HOWITZERS AND HEAVY GUNS.
211. General instructions 336
212. Howitzers 336
213. Heavy batteries 338

DISTRIBUTION OF FIRE.
214. General principles 338
215. Searching 341
216. Sweeping 342
217. Change of target 343

METHODS OF ENGAGING VARIOUS OBJECTIVES.
218. General instructions 343
219. To register a zone 344
220. Localities 344
221. Staffs 345
222. Cavalry 345
223. Artillery 346
224. Infantry 348
225. Machine guns 350
226. Aircraft 350
227. EXAMPLES OF RANGING 351

CHANGE OF POSITION.
228. To advance 360
229. To retire 361

REPLACEMENT OF CASUALTIES.
230. Casualties on the move 362
231. Casualties in action 363

CHAPTER X.
AMMUNITION SUPPLY.

232. General instructions 364
233. Ammunition supply within the battery 365
234. Replenishment of ammunition 366
235. Brigade ammunition columns 367
236. Divisional ammunition columns 370
237. Ammunition reserves on the line of
communication 371

CHAPTER XI.
FIELD ENGINEERING.

238. Entrenching and concealing guns 373
239. Passage of obstacles 377

CHAPTER XII.
RECONNAISSANCE DUTIES, RANGE-FINDING, AND
COMMUNICATION SERVICE.

240. General instructions 380
241. Visual training 381
242. Training in judging distance 382
243. Training in observation 383
244. Reports and sketches 385

RANGE-FINDING.
245. General instructions 388

SERVICE OF COMMUNICATION.
246. General system and principles 390
247. Internal communications 391
248. External communications 392

CHAPTER XIII.
MOVEMENTS AND QUARTERS.

249. Marches and march discipline 394
250. Billets 396
251. Bivouacs 398

TRANSPORT OF ARTILLERY.
252. Transport by rail 401
253. Slinging horses 403
254. Slinging guns and vehicles 407

APPENDIX I.
SYLLABUS OF TRAINING 409