Chapter I: Front Matter

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MUSKETRY

(·303 and ·22 Cartridge)

ELEMENTARY TRAINING AND PRACTICES,
FIRE DIRECTION AND CONTROL, INDIVIDUAL
AND COLLECTIVE FIELD
PRACTICES, RANGE PRACTICES, ETC.

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MUSKETRY
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ELEMENTARY TRAINING
VISUAL TRAINING
JUDGING DISTANCE
FIRE DISCIPLINE
RANGE PRACTICES
FIELD PRACTICES

Written by an Officer of the Regular Army

AND EDITED BY
E. JOHN SOLANO

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1915

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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO

BRIGADIER-GENERAL N. R. MACMAHON, D.S.O.

KILLED IN ACTION, FLANDERS,

_November 11, 1914._

_First Edition_ _January, 1915_
_Reprinted_ _February, 1915_

EDITOR’S NOTE

=Object of the Book.=--This book is intended to serve as an introduction to _Musketry Regulations_. The instruction contained in it is consistent in principle and method with that laid down in _Musketry Regulations, Infantry Training (1914)_, and other official manuals. It is hoped that the book may prove useful to officers and men of the newly raised units of the Regular Army, Territorial Force, and the Military Forces of the dominions. As great care has been taken to explain the correct methods of carrying out musketry training, it is also hoped that it may prove useful to the Volunteer Training Corps, Officers’ Training Corps, and Cadet Corps. The Preface contains notes on experience gained at the front in the present campaign, signed by General Sir O’Moore Creagh, V.C., which will prove of great value to officers in training their commands.

=Scope of Instruction.=--The scope of instruction in the book is practically identical with that laid down in _Musketry Regulations_. It contains the conditions of the individual and collective field practices recently laid down for the training of the new armies on classification ranges. It also includes directions for carrying out a complete course of musketry instruction on miniature ranges with the aid of the Standard Target Equipment adopted for this purpose.[1] This instruction includes elementary training, and leads up by progressive stages to visual training, fire discipline, fire direction and control, and a variety of individual and collective field practices which can be fired under conditions approximating as closely as possible to those of service.

=Acknowledgment.=--The Editor desires to express his thanks and acknowledgments to the Military Authorities and to His Majesty’s Stationery Office for permission to reproduce illustrations and extracts from the _Musketry Regulations_ and other official manuals. It is intended to keep each edition of this book abreast of the latest developments in the science with which it deals, and the changes made from time to time in the official training manuals.

E. JOHN SOLANO.

LONDON, 1915.