Hand Grenades: A handbook on rifle and hand grenades
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Hand Grenades: A handbook on rifle and hand grenades
Grenades
=Battalion Grenadiers of Grenade Platoon=:
1. Grenade officer.
1. Sergt. Instructor.
4. N.C.O.’s and 40 men.
1. Cook.
1. Officers’ servant.
=Total=, 48 all ranks.
=Company Grenadiers=:
1. N.C.O. and 10 men per platoon.
4. N.C.O.’s and 40 men per company.
16. N.C.O.’s and 160 men per battalion.
Total grenadiers per battalion, 224 all ranks.
Total grenadiers per brigade, 896 company and battalion grenadiers.
Total grenadiers per division, 2688 company and battalion grenadiers.
[Illustration: DIVISIONAL GRENADIER ESTABLISHMENT SHOWING CHAIN OF
RESPONSIBILITY.]
COMPOSITION OF A GRENADE SQUAD
In Line
No. 1. Bayonet man.
No. 2. Bayonet man.
No. 3. First thrower.
No. 4. Second thrower.
No. 5. N.C.O. or Leader.
No. 6. First carrier.
No. 7. Second carrier.
No. 8. Spare man.
No. 9. Spare man or sniper.
In Single File
No. 1. Bayonet man.
No. 2. Bayonet man.
No. 3. First thrower.
No. 6. First carrier.
No. 5. N.C.O. or Leader.
No. 4. Second thrower.
No. 7. Second carrier.
No. 8. Spare man.
No. 9. Spare man or sniper.
=Duties of Above.= _Nos. 1 and 2 Bayonet Man._ 1. _Clearing of a Trench
to a Flank._ They are the bodyguard for the thrower and carrier and
must always protect them under any conditions and at all costs.
NOTE. The latter are not armed against attack at close
quarters. The bayonet men work in advance of the thrower and
carrier of their squads. They act as trench scouts; that is,
they instruct their thrower and carrier how the trench runs and
where the dug-outs and side trenches will be met. They will carry
their rifles with bayonets fixed, loaded, magazine full. No. 3
and 6 bomb and clear all dug-outs on the way down the trench. The
first man throws the bomb, the bayonet man enters the dug-out and
completes its work. At the junctions of communication trenches
and side trenches they act as trench sentries and observers until
relieved by the squads in rear. If necessity arises they assist
the thrower by throwing bombs.
[Illustration: CLEARING A TRENCH FROM A FLANK.]
2. _Frontal Attack against Enemy Positions._ They will be in line with,
not in advance of the thrower and carrier and will protect them while
throwing by snap shooting, or with their bayonets against assault, or a
sudden rush by the enemy when at close quarters.
3. _Street Fighting and Village Cleaning._ They will keep down enemy
rifle fire by snap shooting, so as to enable the thrower to work close
enough to his objective to throw grenades, and when these have burst,
will go forward and complete their work.
_No. 3. First Thrower._ He throws grenades according to the directions
given him by his leader or by his bayonet men. He is a picked man,
steady under fire and chosen for his accuracy and length in throwing.
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