Sniping in France: With notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers
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“Now, if any one cares to do a mathematical sum, and to work out the number of battalions we had in the line, they will be surprised at the figures, and when they multiply these figures by thirty and look at the month’s losses, they will find that in a war of attrition the sniper on this count alone justifies his existence and wipes out large numbers of the enemy.” During the initial stages of the First World War in 1914, Allied forces lost breathtaking numbers of men on the Western Front to Germany’s highly efficient and superior snipers. However, the passion of Major Hesketh-Prichard – hunte...
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- SNIPING IN FRANCE
- FOREWORD By General Lord Horne, G.C.B.
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- SNIPING IN FRANCE CHAPTER I THE GENESIS OF SNIPING
- CHAPTER II THE SNIPER IN THE TRENCHES
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- II
- CHAPTER III EARLY DAYS WITH THE 11TH CORPS AND FIRST ARMY
- CHAPTER IV THE FIRST ARMY SCHOOL OF SCOUTING, OBSERVATION AND SNIPING
- CHAPTER V SOME SNIPING MEMORIES
- CHAPTER VI AN OBSERVER’S MEMORIES
- CHAPTER VII THE CURRICULUM AND WORK AT FIRST ARMY SCHOOL OF S.O.S.
- CHAPTER VIII WILIBALD THE HUN
- CHAPTER IX THE CAT
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- CHAPTER X THE TRAINING OF THE PORTUGUESE
- CHAPTER XI THE MODERN SCOUT
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX A
- APPENDIX B General Course at First Army S.O.S. School
- APPENDIX C
- PART I
- Care of Arms, Grouping and Range Practices:
- Avoidable Causes of Inaccuracy:
- Some Unavoidable Causes:
- Other Definitions:
- Grouping and Range Practices:
- PART II
- Patrolling and Scouting
- Types of Patrols in Trench Warfare
- Open Warfare
- PART III
- The Stalking Telescope
- The General Service Telescope
- PART IV
- Front Line Observation and Reports
- PART V
- Some Uses of Scouts, Observers and Snipers in Attack, Defence and Open Warfare
- PART VI
- The Enfield 1914 Pattern “Sniper’s Rifle”
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