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Gunnery   18 Books
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332 Siege Battery R.G.A. An Account of its Adventures in the Great War, 1917-18. Compiled from Notes & Recollections of Officers of the Battery. 1st Ed., ix+134pp., 22 photos., 5 fldg. maps. Windsor: Oxley & Son, Printers. nd (c.1920s)  #61958
[HLMainPic] 6-In. How. Battery formed Jan. 1917: F&F from May starting in Ploegsteert Sector then 3rd Ypres, down to Bertrancourt for March Retreat & Final Advance from Mericourt to Bois l'Evecque. Detailed history. Roll of officers & WOs (with brief services), Roll of Hon. Orig. dec. blue cloth, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £95
Garrison Artillery Training. Vol. I. 1914. General Staff, War Office. Orig. cloth covd., boards, 291pp., several sketches. Printed by Harrison & Sons for HMSO. 1914  #68459
[HLMainPic] Guns & Gunnery; Gun Drill; Fighting by Day; Fighting by Night, &c... Little service worn, VG with contemp. ownership inscrip. of W.P. Ikin (Lt., RGA SR in 1918 Army List). See illustration on our website.   £45
Garrison Artillery Training. Vol. II. (Siege.) 1911. (Reprinted, with amendments, 1914.) General Staff, War Office. Orig. cloth covd., boards, viii+229pp., several sketches. Printed by Harrison & Sons for HMSO. 1914  #68460
[HLMainPic] Training & organization of Siege Artillery, &c. VG with contemp. ownership inscrip. of W.P. Ikin (Lt., RGA SR in 1918 Army List). See illustration on our website.   £45
Garrison Artillery Training. Vol. III. (Siege.) 1911. (Reprinted, with Amendments, 1914.) General Staff, War Office. Orig. cloth covd., boards, xiv+474pp., several sketches. Printed by E&S for HMSO. 1914  #68461
[HLMainPic] Including such matter as Cordage, Crabs & Transporting Carriages, Drill in Moving Ordnance, &c. VG with contemp. ownership inscrip. of W.P. Ikin (Lt., RGA SR in 1918 Army List). See illustration on our website.   £45
Handbook of Artillery Instruments. 1914. v+188pp., 51 plates. Printed by Harrison & Sons for HMSO. 1914  #68528
[HLMainPic] Ancillary equipment fully described + superb photos., cutaway drawings &c., inc. telescopes & binoculars, clinometers, No. 7 dial sight, Field Telemeter, range finders, sighting instruments &c. Orig. blind-stamped red cloth, gilt, VG, nice copy. See illustration on our website.   £65
Hints on the Training of the Artillery of the Field Army. (For Use in the Present War). Compiled by the School of Instruction for Royal Horse & Royal Field Artillery, Shoeburyness. 1st Ed., orig. limp printed wraps., iv+39pp. Woolwich: Printed at The Royal Artillery Institution. 1915  #68535
[HLMainPic] NOT OFFICIAL. TO BE ISSUED TO OFFICERS ONLY. Incorporating the lessons of the current (1914-15) campaign upon which some interesting comments are made. Orig. limp printed wraps., VG with ink ownership inscrip. "W.T. Cox 22.5.15." (Note, Lt.-Col. Sir William Thomas Cox, DSO, RFA TF, vide Who's Who &c.). See illustration on our website.   £65
Kenneth Gordon Garnett MC, RFA, 30 July 1892-22 August 1917. 1st Ed., 62pp., portrait frontis., 11 plates. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press. 1917  #63213
[HLMainPic] A memoir by his Mother with selections from his letters from the Front followed by customary extracts from obituaries & letters of condolence. Garnett was born in 1892, Ed. at St. Paul's School & Trinity College Cambridge (rowed in the triumphant boat in the 1914 boat race). He was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery in Jan. 1915 & proceeded to France the following month, only to be accidentally wounded in March. He returned to the Front in Oct. 1915 & spent the winter in the Ypres Salient then, on 24th August 1916, during a bombardment of Delville Wood, he was shot in the neck & paralysed. He was convalescent in England for a year before his death from a relapse of his spinal wound & is buried in Wandsworth (Putney Vale) Cemetery. Orig. brown paper covd. boards with wheat cloth backstrip, titled in black to front & spine, VG. See illustration on our website..   £165
Kenneth Gordon Garnett MC, RFA, 30 July 1892-22 August 1917. 1st Ed., 62pp., portrait frontis., 11 plates. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press. 1917  #67100
[HLMainPic] A memoir by his Mother with selections from his letters from the Front followed by customary extracts from obituaries & letters of condolence. Garnett was born in 1892, Ed. at St. Paul's School & Trinity College Cambridge (rowed in the triumphant boat in the 1914 boat race). He was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery in Jan. 1915 & proceeded to France the following month, only to be accidentally wounded in March. He returned to the Front in Oct. 1915 & spent the winter in the Ypres Salient then, on 24th August 1916, during a bombardment of Delville Wood, he was shot in the neck & paralysed. He was convalescent in England for a year before his death from a relapse of his spinal wound & is buried in Wandsworth (Putney Vale) Cemetery. Orig. brown paper covd. boards with wheat cloth backstrip, titled in black to front & spine, ink stain at foot of front board, o/w VG. See illustration on our website..   £125
Notes on Gunnery. Issued by the General Staff. May, 1918. Orig. buff printed wraps., 51pp., 3 plates (inc. barrage plan & barrage map), several sketches. Printed by C & S [i.e., Charles & Son, London, SE1]. 1918  #68532
[HLMainPic] For Official Use Only. Contents include Terms used in Gunnery; Orders; Sorting of Ammunition; Map Shooting; Preparation of the Fighting Map; Barrages; Ranging on the Line of Observation; Ranging by Aeroplane &c. VG. See illustration on our website.   £60
Schaubild No. 3 fur den Morter mit 21 cm Grenaten 96 Fldg. chart, 1:25,000, 40x30cm approx. Nur fur den dienstgebrauch [Only for service use]. c.1917  #61460
[HLMainPic] Being a diagram of the fall of shot &c. of the 21 cm grenade mortar, for use in conjunction with range tables. With usage note in printed in margin. Scarce. See illustration on our website.   £45

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