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Instructions for the Training of Platoons for
Offensive Action, 1917.
Part 1: Organisation, Part 2: Training, Part 3: General Remarks
Issued by the General Staff, February 1917.
"This pamphlet has been drawn up with a view to assisting Platoon
Commanders in training and fighting their platoons. It is not
possible to lay down a correct line of action for all situations which may
arise on the battlefield, but it is hoped that a careful study of the
instructions herein contained may assist subordinate commanders to act
correctly in any situation"
24 digitised pages with ten diagrams on cd-rom.
This item is now on our website and is withdrawn from sale.
Elucidations of the Formation and Manoeuvre of a Battalion of Infantry
By John Preston Walker, Captain and Adjutant of the Halifax Volunteers,
and Late Lieutenant in the Twenty Seventh or Enniskillen Infantry.
First published circa 1806.
"A Desire to attain a knowledge of the science of War, having become so
very universal, any attempt to illustrate and render easy in practice the
Regulations which constitute our present system of Military Tactics will
not, it is hoped, be thought unworthy the patronage of the Officers of the
British Infantry, to whom this little treatise is respectfully addressed."
£7 including UK postage and packing.
Regulations and Instructions for Encampments, May 1875
Including: General Principles, Formation of Camp, Striking Camp, Water
Supply, Latrines, Cooking, Camp Police, Hut Encampments.
66 digitised pages which includes more than 25 illustrations and diagrams
on cd-rom.
£7 including UK postage and packing.
Rules and Regulations for the Sword Exercises of Infantry, April 1842
(Infantry Sword Exercises), Adjutant Generals Office, Horse Guards.
"These instructions are laid down as the surest and quickest mode of
forming swordsmen"
This item is now on our website and is withdrawn from sale.
Rifle and Carbine Exercises and Musketry Instructions, Horse Guards,
1879.
This disc contains a digital copy of the instruction book and includes:
Manual Exercises for a rifle battalion, in two ranks and piling arms,
Funeral
Exercises, Paying Compliments with Arms, Dismissing a Company, The Firing
Exercises, Preparing for Cavalry, A Feu-de-Joie, Review Exercises, Manual
of Inspecting Arms on Parade, Rifle Exercises for Sergeants, Guards and
Sentries, Bayonet or Sword Bayonet Exercises.
Over 180 digital images on cd-rom
£7 including UK postage and packing.
How Not To Do It. A Manual for the Awkward Squads, or
A Handbook of Directions Written for the Instruction of Raw Recruits in
our Rifle Volunteer Regiments by R M Ballantyne. (First published 1860)
"Reader! I am anxious that my motive in writing this Manual should not
be misunderstood. I am a member of a Volunteer Rifle Regiment.... My
sole desire is to give a little friendly advice to our awkward squads,
and, if possible, to reach the obtuse faculties of the wilfully,
ignorantly, or stupidly awkward members of the awkward squads. For
these, and these alone, this Manual in intended....."
This item is now on our website and is withdrawn from sale.
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