1 See Appendix, VII.

2 These paragraphs contain information given by a captured German officer who speaks with authority in regard both to musketry and machine guns. His statements appear to represent the views held in the German Army before the war, on which the training of the German soldier has been based.

3 See Preface, para. 10.

4 This precaution will also be adopted when magazines are not charged.

5 For the maximum penetration of the pointed bullet in various substances see Appendix, Field Entrenchments, of this series.

6 Tables giving the maximum height of the trajectory of the Mark VI and VII bullets at different ranges, together with tables showing the angles of descent for the last 100 yards of each range, will be found in Musketry Regulations.

7 This target is described in para. 152, Musketry Regulations, Part II.

8 For description of and directions for use of Legret Aim-Teacher, the Aim-Corrector, and Aiming-Disc, see Appendix. A list of necessary appliances for aiming instruction, including aiming and firing rests, etc., will be found in para. 6 of this section.

9 The position for aiming when lying will be taught previously to this practice.

10 Shooting from the left shoulder is not to be permitted unless it is rendered necessary by defective eyesight in the opinion of the Company Commander.

11 See Fig. 33 illustrating this point. See also Drill and Field Training of this series, Fig. 41, and Field Entrenchments of this series, Figs. 67 and 68.

12 For directions for adjusting sights in the lying position, see Sec. 26, para. 4 (iv).

13 The command Load is only required for drill purposes, or when charging rifles before leaving quarters on service. It is not used in fire orders.

14 The advantages and disadvantages of different forms of cover, such as hedges, banks, walls, ridges, folds of ground, bushes and undergrowth, knolls and small hollows, buildings and enclosed spaces, rocks, mounds of earth, skyline and continuous cover running diagonally to the line of advance, or which runs or zigzags across the line of advance, are discussed in this section.

15 Instructions for training both the eyesight and hearing for use by night are contained in Sec. 41 of Drill and Field Training of this series.

16 See also Sec 72, para 5.

17 Military features of importance in connection with ground and cover are dealt with in Drill and Field Training and Field Entrenchments of this series.

18 See also Sec. 72, para. 8.

19 See Sec. 28 of Drill and Field Training of this series for information as to communications, for which, with information as to ammunition supply see also Infantry Training 1914. Infantry covering fire is dealt with in Sec. 44, para. 13, of this book. Arrangements for covering fire by machine-guns are dealt with in Machine-Gun Training of this series (see also Field Service Regulations and Infantry Training, 1914).

20 With regard to opening fire, see Sec. 44 paras. 3 to 6.

21 See Preface, para. 11.

22 Sec. 13 should be read in connection with this paragraph.

23 See also Sec. 54, para. 3 (vi).

24 All subordinate commanders are responsible for keeping their respective superiors, as well as neighbouring commanders, regularly informed of the progress of events, and of important changes in the situation as they occur. All ranks should notice what takes place within their view and hearing, and report anything of importance accurately and at once to their immediate superior, who must pass the information on to the higher commanders and to neighbouring units. This is the foundation of co-operation in war, and is essential not only in battle, but at every stage of a campaign.—Infantry Training, 1914.

25 The methods by which the development of the soldierly spirit is inculcated in men, and their character developed in discipline and other soldierly qualities, are dealt with in Chapter I of Drill and Field Training of this series.

26 See the Physical Training books of this series.

27 The range duties of officers supervising range practices, together with directions for signalling hits, etc., will be found in Musketry Regulations.

28 All men not fully exercised in Table B with their companies (except those referred to in the first sentence of the paragraph to which this note refers) will be attached to other companies to carry out the range or field practices omitted; or, if all companies have completed Table B, a party of casuals may be formed to insure that all men qualified are fully exercised in the whole of Table B.

29 For various arrangements to facilitate night firing, and their combination with automatic alarms, flare lights, and obstacles to increase fire effect and check the enemy, see Chapter VIII., Field Entrenchments, of this series (see also Preface, para. 7)

30 See also Sec. 15, para. 3.

31 See Drill and Field Training of this series, Sec. 31, paras. 4 to 8

32 Solano figures representing Infantry Lines consist of strips containing a number of figures at intervals. Lines made of these figures can be crowded together by overlapping two strips and fixing them together in the clips.

33 This is not necessary on the “Section Fire” Landscape Targets, because the details of each landscape are reproduced in a monotint or shadowgraph facsimile on the sky-screen to be used with it (Fig. 58). Shot-marks are therefore seen grouped on or about the sky-screen facsimile of the objective directly above it.

34 The illustrations of these Targets in this section only show the aiming-marks and scoring diagrams. These are printed in the centre of square card surfaces of convenient size in the usual manner, the cards being green, grey, or brown, instead of white.