PROGRAMME OF WORK FOR WEEK ENDING … … JANUARY 29th 1916
Explanatory remarks and meaning of abbreviations:-
- Principle features of Programme for Second Week are –
- The Officers: Schemes on Ground, and Commencement of Engineering Course.
- The N.C.O.s finish Engineering, and are instructed in the First Stages of the Attack Normal.
- The Attack Normal is the Attack as laid down in ‘Infantry Training’, or distinguished from the Attack Abnormal, which is the Attack carried out from the trenches.
- The abbreviations denote the following:-
C.I. Chief Instructor; D.C.S.: Disposal of Syndicate Commanders.
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MONDAY.
8.15 a.m. Commandant’s Levee.
8.45 a.m. Nos 1 to 4 Synds. – Lecture on “Advance Guard Attack”, by C.I.,
Followed by Scheme on Ground.
8.45 a.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds. – Lecture on “Types of obstacles and methods of
wiring”, by Capt. Grove-White, R.E.
2 p.m. No 1 Syndicate – D.S.C.
No 2 “ – Machine Gun.
No 3 “ – Bayonet fighting.
No 4 “ – D.S.C.
3 p.m. Nos 1to 4 Synds – Drill.
2 p.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds – Drill.
3 p.m. No 5 Syndicate – D.S.C.
No 6 “ – Machine Gun.
No 7 “ – Bayonet fighting.
No 8 “ – D.S.C.
5.15 p.m. Conference of Instructors.
6 p.m. Lecture – by Brig. General A. Montgomery, B.G.G.S., 4th Corps, – “Battle of
LOOS”.
TUESDAY.
8.15 a.m. Commandant’s Levee.
8.45 a.m. Nos 1 to 4 Synds. – Lecture on “Trench Orders”, by Commandant.
9.45 a.m. ditto – Practice Relief of Trenches.
11.30 a.m. ditto – D.S.C.
8.45 a.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds. – Lecture on “Reclamation of fallen in trench,
construction of Machine Gun Emplacement, Loopholes, Dug-outs”, by Capt. Grove-
White, R.E., followed by Practice.
2 p.m. No 1 Syndicate – Machine Gun.
No 2 “ – Grenades.
No 3 “ – D.S.C.
No 4 “ – Bayonet fighting.
3 p.m. Nos 1to 4 Synds – Drill.
2 p.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds – Drill.
3 p.m. No 5 Syndicate – Machine Gun.
No 6 “ – Grenades.
No 7 “ – D.S.C.
No 8 “ – Bayonet fighting.
5.15 p.m. Conference of Instructors.
6 p.m. Lecture – by Major Stansfield, D.S.O., The Yorkshire Regiment, – “Infantry of
the 7th Division at LOOS”.
WEDNESDAY.
8.15 a.m. Commandant’s Levee.
8.45 a.m. Nos 1 to 4 Synds. – Lecture on “Outposts”, by CI., followed by
“Outposts Schemes”.
8.45 a.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds. – Lecture on “Consolidation of captured position”, by
Capt. Grove-White, R.E., followed by Practice.
2 p.m. No 1 Syndicate – Machine Gun.
No 2 “ – Grenades.
No 3 “ – Bayonet fighting.
No 4 “ – D.S.C.
3 p.m. Nos 1to 4 Synds – Drill.
2 p.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds – Drill.
3 p.m. No 5 Syndicate – Machine Gun.
No 6 “ – Grenades.
No 7 “ – Bayonet fighting.
No 8 “ – D.S.C.
5.15 p.m. Conference of Instructors.
6 p.m. Lecture – by Captain Grove-White, R.E., – “Battle of Loos, from the point of
view of the Royal Engineers”.
THURSDAY.
8.15 a.m. Commandant’s Levee.
8.45 a.m. Nos 1 to 4 Synds. – (i) Lecture on “Meaning, function, and organization of a defensive line”, by Capt. Grove-White, R.E.
10 a.m. ditto (ii) Lecture on “Organization of working parties,
siting, laying out, and digging trenches, parties moving on to work” by Capt. Grove-
White, R.E.
11 a.m. ditto – Syndicates are shewn:-
- Organization of working parties.
- Working parties moving tom their rendezvous.
- Working parties drawing tools, and moving on to tasks,
8.45 a.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds. – Lecture on “Attack Normal” by C.I.
10 a.m. ditto Demonstration and practice of extended order drill,
extensions, and signals.
2 p.m. No 1 Syndicate – Machine Gun.
No 2 “ – Grenades.
No 3 “ – D.S.C.
No 4 “ – Bayonet fighting.
3 p.m. Nos 1to 4 Synds – Drill.
2 p.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds – Drill.
3 p.m. No 5 Syndicate – Machine Gun.
No 6 “ – Grenades.
No 7 “ – D.S.C.
No 8 “ – Bayonet fighting.
5.15 p.m. Conference of Instructors.
6 p.m. Lecture – by Lieut Col Tudor, C.M.G., R.H.A., – “Battle of LOOS from the point of view of the Royal Artillery”.
FRIDAY.
8.15 a.m. Commandant’s Levee.
8.45 a.m. Nos 1 to 4 Synds. – Laying out, digging, and completion of tasks, with
entrenching tool.
8.45 a.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds. – Lecture on “Fire Control, and description of
Targets,”, by C.I.
10 a.m. ditto – Extended order drill, signals, fire positions, fire
control, and description of targets.
2 p.m. No 1 Syndicate – Machine Gun.
No 2 “ – Grenades.
No 3 “ – Bayonet fighting.
No 4 “ – ditto.
3 p.m. Nos 1to 4 Synds – Drill.
2 p.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds – Drill.
3 p.m. No 5 Syndicate – Machine Gun.
No 6 “ – Grenades.
No 7 and 8 Syndicates – Bayonet fighting.
5.15 p.m. Conference of Instructors.
6 p.m. Lecture – by Major Fuller, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry, General Staff, 7th
Corps, “Sir John Moore’s School of Instruction Shorncliffe”.
SATURDAY.
8.15 a.m. Commandant’s Levee.
8.45 a.m. Nos 1 to 4 Synds. – Lecture on “Revetments”, by Capt Grove-White.
9.45 a.m. ditto – Ceremonial Drill.
10.45 a.m. ditto – Construction of Revetments.
8.45 a.m. Nos 5 to 8 Synds. – Extended order drill, and fire control.
9.45 a.m. ditto – Ceremonial Drill.
10.45 a.m. ditto – Fire Control, and description of targets.
The rest of the programme is missing.
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