THE TRAINING
OF AN
INFANTRY COMPANY.
CATECHISM ON FIELD TRAINING
(INFANTRY).
A series of Questions and Answers onall subjects of field training, extractedfrom the latest official TRAININGMANUALS, together with miscellaneousinformation, practical exercisesand examples progressively arranged.
Revised and brought up to date by
COL. H. O’DONNELL, p.s.c.
(WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT).
SIXTH EDITION.
CONTENTS.
Elementary—General Principles of Attackand Defence—Miscellaneous TacticalOperations—Warfare in uncivilised Countries—Protectionon the Line of March—Protectionwhen at Rest—Methods ofobtaining Information—Quarters, Camps,and Bivouacs—Field Engineering—Diaryof Training.
Fully illustrated with 30 pages of Plates and Diagrams.
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“The book is most comprehensive, for everybranch of the soldier’s life is touched upon, andevery situation or emergency seems to be anticipated.Colonel O’Donnell’s publication is quitea military encyclopædia.”—Empress, Calcutta.
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The TRAINING
OF AN
Infantry Company
By
Major E. Kirkpatrick, I.A.
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2nd Edition.
London: Gale & Polden, Ltd.,
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1914
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PREFACE
This booklet has not been written forthe use and benefit of officers and non-commissionedofficers of long experienceand proved skill in the profession oftraining men for battle. To such asthese it may only provide an object ofcriticism, for in the course of yea