British musketry training 1900 to 1918
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British Musketry Training
1900-1918
Boer War Musketry Training
School of Musketry
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)
Musketry Training 1903
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
Training Manuals –Appendix 1905
Musketry Regulations, 1909
Military illustrations
Musketry Training, 1905 & 1909 Musketry Training, 1914
Illustrations
Infantry Training, 1911 Rifle Exercises Made Easy (1914)
1914
Battlefield Targetry (1)
Battlefield Targetry (2)
Landscape Target in use (1)
Landscape Targets in use (2)
Kitchener’s Army
Ogden’s “Infantry Training”
Card Training Aids (1)
Card Training Aids (2)
Card Training Aids (3)
Aim Corrector
Aiming Disc
Aiming Rest
Miniature rifle practice
Gale & Polden(1)
Gale & Polden illustrations (1)
How To Instruct In Aiming and Firing (1915)
Hythe Musketry Course (1914)
The “Regiment”
NRA School of Musketry
Musketry Addendum No. 4
1918
Small Arms Training, 1924
‘Mad Minute’