british musketry training 1900 to 1918
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This is a presentation delivered to a monthly meeting of the Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association (HBSA) of Great Britain in London, UK. Website: www.hbsa-uk.org Nick Harlow details and illustrates many of the musketry (rifle shooting) training methods that the British Army used in the years prior to World War 1 WW!TRANSCRIPT
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British Musketry Training
1900-1918
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Boer War Musketry Training
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School of Musketry
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General Sir Charles Monro
• Chief Instructor at Hythe, 1901-1903
• Commandant, 1903-1907• Nurtured the twin doctrines
of ‘Rapid Aimed Fire’ and ‘Fire and Movement’
• Combined, these became part of the ‘Monro Doctrine’
Major General Sir Charles Monro (1860 – 1929)
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Musketry Training 1903
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Brigadier Norman McMahon
• Chief Instructor at Hythe, 1905-1909
• Nick-named the ‘Musketry Maniac’ by troops.
• Credited as the inventor of the ‘Mad Minute’.
• Highly influential to theory of firepower in war.
Brigadier Norman McMahon, 1866 – 1914
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Training Manuals –Appendix 1905
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Musketry Regulations, 1909
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Military illustrations
Musketry Training, 1905 & 1909 Musketry Training, 1914
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Illustrations
Infantry Training, 1911 Rifle Exercises Made Easy (1914)
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1914
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Battlefield Targetry (1)
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Battlefield Targetry (2)
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Landscape Target in use (1)
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Landscape Targets in use (2)
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Kitchener’s Army
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Ogden’s “Infantry Training”
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Card Training Aids (1)
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Card Training Aids (2)
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Card Training Aids (3)
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Aim Corrector
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Aiming Disc
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Aiming Rest
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Miniature rifle practice
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Gale & Polden(1)
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Gale & Polden illustrations (1)
How To Instruct In Aiming and Firing (1915)
Hythe Musketry Course (1914)
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The “Regiment”
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NRA School of Musketry
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Musketry Addendum No. 4
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1918
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Small Arms Training, 1924
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‘Mad Minute’