Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Bold text displayed as: =bold= THE TRAINING OF AN INFANTRY COMPANY. =CATECHISM ON FIELD TRAINING= (=INFANTRY=). A series of Questions and Answers on all subjects of field training, extracted from the latest official TRAINING MANUALS, together with miscellaneous information, practical exercises and 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 Attack and Defence—Miscellaneous Tactical Operations—Warfare in uncivilised Countries—Protection on the Line of March—Protection when at Rest—Methods of obtaining Information—Quarters, Camps, and Bivouacs—Field Engineering—Diary of Training. _Fully illustrated with 30 pages of Plates and Diagrams._ =One of the numerous Press Opinions.= “The book is most comprehensive, for every branch of the soldier’s life is touched upon, and every situation or emergency seems to be anticipated. Colonel O’Donnell’s publication is quite a military encyclopædia.”—_Empress_, Calcutta. =PRICE 3/- NET.= _From the Printers and Publishers_, GALE & POLDEN LTD., WELLINGTON WORKS, ALDERSHOT, And at London and Portsmouth. = _The_ TRAINING= OF AN =INFANTRY COMPANY= _By_ Major E. KIRKPATRICK, I.A. —————:O:————— 2ND EDITION. _London_: GALE & POLDEN, LTD., 2, AMEN CORNER, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. Nelson House, PORTSMOUTH & Wellington Works, ALDERSHOT. Obtainable from all Booksellers. _TWO SHILLINGS & SIXPENCE_ (_Net_) (_Copyright under Act of 1911._) ALDERSHOT: PRINTED BY GALE & POLDEN, LTD., WELLINGTON WORKS. 1914 PREFACE