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    Archibald Hill (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    enrolled in the Officers Training Corps; he was a crack shot. In 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, Hill became the musketry officer of the Cambridgeshire...
    26 KB (2,861 words) - 21:04, 8 October 2024
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    Edward Bamford (category Royal Marines officers)
    Kong, where he held the appointment of Instructor of Small Arms and Musketry Officer at Hong Kong. A 1930s photograph in the RM Museum shows a picture of...
    8 KB (911 words) - 10:37, 30 June 2024
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    of Musketry, a misnomer as muskets were being withdrawn from service – yet the art of the use of long arms to this day is sometimes known as musketry. A...
    11 KB (991 words) - 14:54, 22 August 2024
  • Instructor of Musketry was a position within infantry battalions that existed from 1857 until 1883, with the position being held by a single officer from two...
    777 bytes (68 words) - 12:27, 17 September 2024
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    served as assistant adjutant-general at militia headquarters and as a musketry officer during World War I. There is a Cartwright Family Fonds with the Ontario...
    12 KB (1,047 words) - 05:47, 8 October 2024
  • School of Musketry is a heritage-listed former military installation at 431 Lloyd Street, Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia...
    13 KB (1,695 words) - 01:19, 9 May 2022
  • in the Howth gun-running. In the First World War he was a brigade musketry officer with the 3rd Cavalry reserve. After the war he was a member of the...
    9 KB (688 words) - 14:43, 16 July 2024
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    Harold Ruggles-Brise (category Grenadier Guards officers)
    colonel on 30 August 1911, he was next appointed commandant of the School of Musketry at Hythe in Kent, in succession to Colonel Walter Congreve, a Victoria...
    28 KB (3,248 words) - 01:20, 19 November 2024
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    (styled the South African Military School) and the Musketry Branch (called the South African School of Musketry). The S.A. Military School was established on...
    15 KB (2,125 words) - 20:54, 29 May 2024
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    massed saturation attack to be effective. The volley fire, specifically the musketry volley technique (also known as the countermarch), requires lines of soldiers...
    44 KB (6,373 words) - 15:01, 18 November 2024
  • Also that year he appeared in a couple of television shows. He played an officer in Headmaster which aired in October and two episodes of The Bold Ones:...
    10 KB (862 words) - 08:40, 6 October 2024
  • Liverpool City Police Lieutenant Edward Joseph Scott-Dudley — Area Musketry Officer Victoria Grant Duff — Head of Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau, British...
    127 KB (16,211 words) - 01:36, 10 January 2024
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    annually. The origin of the present school can be traced to The School of Musketry at Changla Gali (now in Pakistan), which was established in the year 1886...
    22 KB (1,323 words) - 17:00, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Anson (British Army officer, born 1797)
    bearing". He did however order the postponement of target practice at musketry depots; which would have involved the actual biting of cartridges and was...
    13 KB (1,130 words) - 03:46, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Smith (British Army officer, born 1816)
    fortress of Delhi in broad daylight, under a heavy and destructive fire of musketry, on the morning of 14 September 1857, preparatory to the assault. (General...
    8 KB (899 words) - 03:53, 12 November 2024
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    rifle. The exercise formally known as "Practice number 22, Rapid Fire, The Musketry Regulations, Part I, 1909", required the rifleman to fire 15 rounds at...
    9 KB (809 words) - 11:59, 22 November 2024
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    to England in April 1898 and was appointed Commandant of the School of Musketry at Hythe. Amidst mounting tensions between the United Kingdom and the Boer...
    32 KB (3,421 words) - 14:36, 21 November 2024
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    Militarily, the battle pitted the artillery, musketry, and cavalry of the Marathas against the heavy cavalry, musketry (jezail) and mounted artillery (zamburak)...
    64 KB (7,047 words) - 06:12, 21 November 2024
  • volley to preserve organization. This was commonly used during the age of musketry and is still currently used in the form of the 3-volley salute. Execution...
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    considered a large amount. The results were good by 18th Century standards of musketry: on one occasion in 1780 130 shots out of 600 hit the target. One company...
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