John Breed, Diary and Training diary, item 139

• April 1, 2017 21:52:48 Cheryl Ellsworth

  Salvoes

       In which all the guns are fired together by order

  of the Battery Commander, are used in rare cases, as to

  distinguish the rounds from those of another battery

  
  

  Searching
  

       This means firing at a number of elevations in

  succession so as to cover a certain depth of ground

  Thus if reconnoitring patrol report that the enemy's reserves

  have been seen moving towards the ground behind a ridge,

  and if they have not come out again, they must still be there

  and it may be desirable to search the ground, therefore

  four rounds Battery Fire range increasing by 100 yards

  at each round. Searching may be continued by repeating

  the four elevations, or by working backwards and forwards

  over the same ground. Or the two sections may fire simultaneously

  at different elevations, each sweeping to cover

  the full width of the target. Searching may also be employed

  when although a long bracket can be found, the conditions

  of observation render it impossible to divide it

  When the ground is known to fall away behind a covering crest,

  the corrector should be lengthened for the longer elevations, so

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