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  • Thumbnail for Archibald Hill
    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...
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    of Musketry, a misnomer as muskets were being withdrawn from service – yet the art of the use of long arms to this day is sometimes known as musketry.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) - 07:23, 14 February 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) - 21:24, 13 April 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...
    775 bytes (68 words) - 11:49, 19 February 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) - 21:48, 31 March 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
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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...
    40 KB (5,923 words) - 00:47, 1 June 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
  • 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 (686 words) - 09:48, 16 July 2023
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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
  • 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
  • constabularies to teach them foot and rifle drill and weapons handling (called "musketry") and to maintain disciplinary standards. This is the historical origin...
    95 KB (10,192 words) - 23:35, 8 June 2024
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    Gonville Bromhead (category South Wales Borderers officers)
    March 1881. He then returned to England, where he attended the School of Musketry, Hythe, between October and December 1882, and gained a First Class Extra...
    19 KB (2,281 words) - 23:42, 4 May 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 (3,403 words) - 00:14, 13 March 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 (758 words) - 17:07, 31 May 2023
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    Edward Braddock (category Coldstream Guards officers)
    Duquesne to oppose the river crossing. Although the initial exchange of musketry favored the British, felling the French commander and causing some Canadian...
    16 KB (1,729 words) - 17:37, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Leith (British Army officer, born 1763)
    two-deep lines, with the British brigades in the front line, the division's musketry defeated Antoine de Maucune's badly deployed French division. Leith was...
    22 KB (2,331 words) - 02:06, 10 November 2023
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    Richard Barnett (politician) (category Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers)
    1914 he was appointed musketry officer of the 41st Infantry Brigade. In November of the same year he became Staff Officer for Musketry for the 36th (Ulster)...
    8 KB (639 words) - 03:08, 25 May 2023
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    Light Infantry on 16 October 1908). On 1 October 1894 Eden underwent a musketry course at Hythe, with his certificate for passing the course being issued...
    41 KB (4,370 words) - 11:21, 8 June 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. In non-military...
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