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Chronological Index

 

While this book was written with a thematic approach, the opportunities of the web make it possible to access it in a more chronological way. Reading the book through the links below will probably work better as snapshots of the state of affairs at particular times than producing a smooth flow of developments.		 


Boer War Section 2.1

 
Interwar period Sections 2.2-2.11, 3.1, 5.2; 8:2-6, 9:14

 
1914
 Mobile battles 2:48-53, Section 6.2
 Defensive battles 2.54-55, Section 7.1
 Doctrine 2:56-59
 Staff arrangements 9: 7-8, 21, 43
 Training 8.7-15, 22
 Counter-battery development Section 5.3
 Bombardments Sections 3.2-3

 
1915
 Bombardments Sections 3.4-9
 Lifting barrage Section 6.3
 Counter-battery development Section 5.4
 Staff arrangements 9: 9-10, 15-16, 21-27, 31-34, 44-48
 Training 8:7-15
 Defense Section 7.2

 
1916
 Bombardments Sections 3.10-15
 Counter-battery development Section 5.5
 Creeping Barrage  Section 6.4
 Staff development 9:11, 16, 27, 37-38, 39-40, 48-52, 53-64
 Training 8:16-19, 22, 36-40
 Defense Section 7.2

 
1917
 Bombardments Sections 4.1-9
 Staff development 9:12, 18, 39, 53-64
 Counter-battery development Section 5.6
 Defense Section 7.3
 Training 8:20, 22, 36-40
 Creeping Barrage Section 6.5

 
1918
 Defense Section 7.4
 Bombardments Sections 4.9-12
 Creeping Barrage Section 6.6
 Staff development 9:53-64
 Counter-battery development Section 5.7
 Training 8:30-35

 

"The Infantry cannot do with a gun less": The Place of the Artillery
in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918