Infantry training, 1905

Name: Infantry training, 1905
Author: Great Britain. War Office

Great Britain. War Office

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

_Echelon._              A formation of successive and parallel units
                          facing in the same direction; each on a flank
                          and to the rear of the unit in front of it.

_File._                 A front rank man and his rear rank man.

_Fire unit._            Any number of men firing by the executive
                          command of one man.

_Flank, directing._     That by which units march or dress.

_Flank, inner._         That nearer to the point of formation or
                          direction.

_Flank, outer._         That opposite to the inner or directing flank.

_Frontage._             The extent of ground covered laterally by
                          troops.

_Interval._             The lateral space between men, units, or corps,
                          measured from flank to flank.

_Interval, deploying._  The lateral space between units in quarter
                          column or in column, on the same alignment,
                          the space being equal to the frontage of a
                          unit in line.

_Line._                 Troops formed on the same alignment.

_Mass._                 Battalions in quarter column, on parallel and
                          successive alignments with any named distance
                          between battalions.

_Patrol._               A body of men sent out to reconnoitre or to
                          guard against surprise.

_Point of formation._   The point on which a formation is based.

_Position, change of._  A movement by which a body of troops takes up
                          a new alignment.

_Rank._                 A line of men, side by side.

_Reconnaissance._       Searching for information of the enemy, or as
                          to the nature of the ground.

_Section._              The quarter of a company.

_Section of Defence._   A portion of a defensive position which is
                          allotted to a distinct body of troops.

_Squad._                The half of a section, or a small number of
                          men, formed for drill, or for work.

_Super-numeraries._     The non-commissioned officers, &c., forming the
                          third rank.

_Wheeling._             A movement by which a body of troops brings
                          forward a flank on a fixed or moving pivot.




                          INFANTRY TRAINING.


                                PART I.


                       TRAINING OF THE RECRUIT.


                      =1.= _Preliminary remarks._

1. The object of the recruits course of training at the depôt is to fit
the soldier to take his place in the ranks of his company on joining
his battalion.

For this purpose the recruit must be developed by physical exercises,
and be trained in squad drill, rifle and firing exercises, in the
estimation of ranges, and in skirmishing.


                     =2.= _Syllabus of Training._

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Infantry training, 1905

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