British Musketry Training

1900-1918

Boer War Musketry Training

School of Musketry

General Sir Charles Monro

• Chief Instructor at Hythe, 1901-1903

• Commandant, 1903-1907• Nurtured the twin doctrines

of ‘Rapid Aimed Fire’ and ‘Fire and Movement’

• Combined, these became part of the ‘Monro Doctrine’

Major General Sir Charles Monro (1860 – 1929)

Musketry Training 1903

Brigadier Norman McMahon

• Chief Instructor at Hythe, 1905-1909

• Nick-named the ‘Musketry Maniac’ by troops.

• Credited as the inventor of the ‘Mad Minute’.

• Highly influential to theory of firepower in war.

Brigadier Norman McMahon, 1866 – 1914

Training Manuals –Appendix 1905

Musketry Regulations, 1909

Military illustrations

Musketry Training, 1905 & 1909 Musketry Training, 1914

Illustrations

Infantry Training, 1911 Rifle Exercises Made Easy (1914)

1914

Battlefield Targetry (1)

Battlefield Targetry (2)

Landscape Target in use (1)

Landscape Targets in use (2)

Kitchener’s Army

Ogden’s “Infantry Training”

Card Training Aids (1)

Card Training Aids (2)

Card Training Aids (3)

Aim Corrector

Aiming Disc

Aiming Rest

Miniature rifle practice

Gale & Polden(1)

Gale & Polden illustrations (1)

How To Instruct In Aiming and Firing (1915)

Hythe Musketry Course (1914)

The “Regiment”

NRA School of Musketry

Musketry Addendum No. 4

1918

Small Arms Training, 1924

‘Mad Minute’