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Topic: British Manuals
Posted By: Ed Hill
Subject: British Manuals
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 11:17am
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http://www.weapons.org.uk/smallarmstraining/index.htm Something for everyone. Updated with new link) Ed |
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 5:50pm
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Does anyone have access to a site that has DRILL manuals ?
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 5:42am
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Try Black and Decker or Bosch hoadie!! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 6:20am
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FUN-NEE GUY!
Fellow jokesters...I think we have found alumnus ! Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: April 26 2006 at 6:34am
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Wasn't he the guy that circumcised the world? ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 8:11pm
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gotta admit hoadie..he was quick on that one ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
hoadie wrote:Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: April 30 2006 at 2:41am
Awwwwwwwwww thanks Allan! Just getting warmed up for the main bout of insults !!!  ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: April 30 2006 at 12:27pm
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well ill get my helmet on and sit by and watch the fireworks.. ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 29 2006 at 7:38pm
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Fight you bastards fight! (he says going over to sit with Allan in the cheap seats ) Dave |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 11:19am
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Ed, Excellent site lots of good information on there. Cookie Monster |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 7:11pm
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http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting2005/rebarrelno4/index.asp - http://www.surplusrifle.com/shooting2005/rebarrelno4/index.a sp If you guys are interested the above gives the lowdown and rebarrelling an enfield. http://www.leeenfieldrifleassociation.org.uk/ - http://www.leeenfieldrifleassociation.org.uk/ Thats the Brit version of this site. Stuffy dry and sod all humour. ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
As I said before I'm not a brit I'm a Yorkshireman. Britain is a boil on the ass of Yorkshire.Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 8:58pm
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Funny that..I think I heard the Welsh say the same thing!
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 9:40pm
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Thats the Brit version of this site. Stuffy dry and sod all humour I take it then they would not see the funny side of a Telegram anouncing that MAFAKING has been relived ??????  dave |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 1:28am
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Go on mate send em an email saying just that! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 3:56am
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And its Mefaking old boy! Can't you colonials speak proper pom like wot I do? ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 5:24am
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Yeah - get with it! Speak the Good King's English!
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 10:02am
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Bit dated hoadie its a queen on the throne. No not Daves cuz in the dunny I mean a proper royal. ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 9:42pm
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I know that! Ya gotta remember WHO the Soveriegn was to the "colonials" (the ORIGINAL colonials). That would be the one they named after ME, I suspect.
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 1:10am
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Well German George wasn't liked by the English mate !! Why do you think Mountbatten changed his name after ww1? The House of Hanover have never been the real royals here. They're imports after we gave Charles a haircut following the civil war in 1642. Scots had even less to like them for after the rebellion in 1745. Shame Bonnie Prince Charlie didn't make it to London they managed to get as far as Derby before they turned back. ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 2:23am
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You know what an Irisman is?....It's a Scotsman that can swim!
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 5:47pm
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now thats a low blow hoadie! and i thought we were mates! ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: June 01 2006 at 7:02pm
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Actually hoadie the scots and the irish are from different ancient tribes. The Irish are Picts an old established race living in Ireland pre the roman invasion. ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: enfieldboy
Date Posted: January 20 2008 at 5:29pm
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Hoadie.
A bit late in my reply but I have some drill manuals that I inherited from my father in law. He was a Sgt Gunnery Instructor in the brit. army.
I have Small Arms Training. Rifle 1942.
Gun Drill for Q.F. 25Pr Mark II Gun.1944
Handbook of the Polsten, Machine Gun 20mm Mk1 1944
Rifle Training For War, Local Defence Volunteers. Price 1/-
and Manual of Modern Automatic Guns,Sten, Bren,Lewis, Thompson, Vickers, Browning. Loading, Firing, Details of Mechanism, Stoppages and Immediate Action. Stripping and Assemblling. Price 1/-
No PC brigade in those days. The First Paragraph reads:-
The Object Of Weapons Training
The sole object of weapons training is to teach all ranks the most efficient way of handling weapons in order to kill the enemy. Instructors will always bear this fact in mind, and continually impress it upon those whom they instruct.
Priceless articles to be handed on.
enfieldboy ------------- There are only three kinds of people in this world. Those that can count and those that can't. |
Posted By: John Coleman
Date Posted: March 05 2009 at 5:27am
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http://drummajor.net/documents/UKDrill1935.pdf - U.K. Manual of Elementary Drill (All Arms)
1935 http://drummajor.net/documents/UKDrill1935.pdf - http://drummajor.net/documents/UKDrill1935.pdf |
Posted By: Eric
Date Posted: March 06 2009 at 11:00am
| very cool manual! thanks for the post. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 8:44am
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1935!
Wow, only 9p as well.
 I saved a copy of that, thanks. Not sure why I saved a copy, as like most I hated drill, & wasn't too thrilled about giving drill instruction later on.
It usually started with something like:
"Get fell in in 3 heaps!", or "You three! Form Fours."  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: ducaninfrance
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 6:33pm
I wonder why it was only the Drill Sgt that said Drill was enjoyable     SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! ------------- Duncan. Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading. |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 9:35pm
| Ducan that is an interesting manual |
Posted By: ducaninfrance
Date Posted: March 27 2009 at 2:38am
Which one, the top? I also bought this recently.  ------------- Duncan. Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 27 2009 at 7:26am
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MAN!! What a treasure trove of great info!!! THANX A BIG BUNCH!!
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: March 27 2009 at 8:15am
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Did anyone else not get the images in the " http://drummajor.net/documents/UKDrill1935.pdf - U.K. Manual of Elementary Drill (All Arms) 1935 " manual when downloading it? I got 18 pages of text, but the images weren't there. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: John Coleman
Date Posted: April 03 2009 at 12:15am
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I don't think that PDF has pictures. This one here has some pictures. Rifle Exercises (Arms Drill) http://greatwarhistoricalsociety.com/Rifle_Exercises_Arms_Drill.pdf - http://greatwarhistoricalsociety.com/Rifle_Exercises_Arms_Drill.pdf Port Arms http://greatwarhistoricalsociety.com/Port_Arms.pdf - http://greatwarhistoricalsociety.com/Port_Arms.pdf I have seen a Canadian Navy drill manual in PDF that has special on deck drilling which is slightly different. I think the Canadian Navy at one point went to on deck drilling even on shore. |
Posted By: airforcediver
Date Posted: April 03 2009 at 5:35am
Yes, John They did. That was always the first thing we had to sort out with those POG's when there was a Combined services parade or guard. They may have the nicest uniform in our forces, but gawd there drill looks like crap.
AFD ------------- If all else fails call in a MOAB and call it a day |
Posted By: John Coleman
Date Posted: April 03 2009 at 7:44am
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The Lee-Enfield should be carried, on the march, at the "Slope arms"
position, at a 45 degree angle over the left shoulder. A salute on the
march is done with the right hand instead of the left, with the
hand brought across the small of the butt, and to "order arms" drop the
left forearm from parallel to the ground to perpendicular, thereby
dropping the butt down, reach across with the right arm to grasp the
forestock and bring the rifle across the body and to the ground on the
right. From the "Drill for use on board ship" I think the Canadian Navy carries the Lee-Enfield in the right hand at a "Shoulder Arms" position. http://www.cadets.dnd.ca/_docs/sea-marine/scdm/Chap2-2.pdf - http://www.cadets.dnd.ca/_docs/sea-marine/scdm/Chap2-2.pdf |
Posted By: ducaninfrance
Date Posted: May 12 2009 at 5:02pm
Now lets get this straight A drill goes.............BLACKANDECKER-BLACKANDECKER-BLACKANDECKER As for the Navy carrying rifles, they shouldn't have to, what's wrong with long range sniping these days
------------- Duncan. Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading. |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: May 12 2009 at 7:28pm
It only goes BLACKANDECKER-BLACKANDECKER-BLACKANDECKER if it's in Hammer mode !
------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: LE Owner
Date Posted: May 04 2010 at 5:10pm
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Heres regulations for Musketry 1915
http://www.archive.org/details/musketry30322car00sola - http://www.archive.org/details/musketry30322car00sola
It includes information on the .22 trainers and a section on lessons learned in the first months of WW1.
A good companion book is
"Rifles and Ammunition and Rifle Shooting"
http://books.google.com/books?id=kd_NAAAAMAAJ&dq=rifles+and+ammunition+and+rifle+shooting&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=tYD7oxpmfb&sig=GQ9vd9TN_OxR9cmCSCWCWiVrCMw&hl=en&ei=-50pSpXgGoWGtgeYl9GvCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 - http://books.google.com/books?id=kd_NAAAAMAAJ&dq=rifles+and+ammunition+and+rifle+shooting&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=tYD7oxpmfb&sig=GQ9vd9TN_OxR9cmCSCWCWiVrCMw&hl=en&ei=-50pSpXgGoWGtgeYl9GvCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
Which includes evaluations of the arms of the major powers in WW1, and prewar experimentation leading to the MkVII bullet plus a lot more.
Manuals
This site has instructions for armorers and SAID drawings for the SMLE
http://www.euroarms.net/EFD/SMLE_MANUALI.htm - http://www.euroarms.net/EFD/SMLE_MANUALI.htm
The site also has PDF downloads of Canadian manuals and Instructions to armorers for the No.4 rifles.
http://www.euroarms.net/EFD/manuali/No4Mk1Inst.pdf - http://www.euroarms.net/EFD/manuali/No4Mk1Inst.pdf
http://www.euroarms.net/EFD/manuali/No4Mk1Arm.pdf - http://www.euroarms.net/EFD/manuali/No4Mk1Arm.pdf
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