The Training of an Infantry Company

About this eBook

Author

Kirkpatrick, E. (Edward), 1869-

Title

The training of an infantry company

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Gale & Polden Ltd, 1914.

Credits

Brian Coe, Bob Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

UD: Military science: Infantry

Subject

Great Britain. Army -- Infantry -- Drill and tactics

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 69943

Release Date

February 3, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE TRAINING OF AN INFANTRY COMPANY.
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.PREFACE
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.
8. 8.INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.EXERCISE I. Individual Advance in Extended Order. — II. The advance combined with individual fire.
10. 10.EXERCISE II. Retirement by Pairs.
11. 11.EXERCISE III. Individual Training in use of Fire and Fire Discipline.
12. 12.EXERCISE IV. The Assault.
13. 13.EXERCISE V. The Section and Platoon in the Attack. — First Phase: Fourteen to One Thousand Yards, Gaining Ground Without Firing. — Second Phase: One thousand to Six Hundred Yards (Collective Fire) and Six Hundred to Two Hundred Yards (Individual Fire). — In Platoon.
14. 14.EXERCISE VI. The Section and Platoon in Retirement. — ( a ) As a Section or Platoon Acting with the Company. — ( b ) As a Section or Platoon Acting Alone.
15. 15.EXERCISE VII. The Section and Platoon in Independent Attack.
16. 16.EXERCISE VIII. The Platoon as an Advanced Guard and as a Flank Guard. — ( b ) The Platoon as a Flank Guard.
17. 17.EXERCISE IX. Preliminary for the Attack by the Company in Battalion.
18. 18.EXERCISE X. The Company in Attack with the Battalion under Artillery Fire.
19. 19.EXERCISE XI. The Company in Attack with the Battalion, under Rifle Fire.
20. 20.EXERCISE XII. The Company in Attack Acting Alone.
21. 21.EXERCISE XIII. The Company in Retirement.
22. 22.EXERCISE XIV. Outposts. — I. — II. — Day Piquets. — Night Piquets.
23. 23.EXERCISE XV. Defence. — Instruction in Siting Trenches. — Traverses and broken lines of Trenches. — Short Trenches for Two Men. — Defence of Pivots (M.F.E., 50 (3), and I.T., 129). — The Company in Defence Acting Alone. — Night Defence.
24. 24.EXERCISE XVI. Hasty Expedients.
25. 25.EXERCISE XVII. Night Operation Training. — I. Connecting Files. — II. Marching and Formations. — III. Night Assault. — IV. Night Entrenching. — V. Search Work. — VI. Surprises.
26. 26.A SCHEME OF A COMPANY TRAINING. — Transcriber’s Notes

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