John Breed, Diary and Training diary, item 122

• March 29, 2017 23:08:26 Cheryl Ellsworth

  depends on the target surface offered by each man, it is

  immaterial whether the men are shoulder to shoulder or in
  

  a thin skirmishing line

  For practical purposes we may take the target surface

  of a man standing as ½ square yard, kneeling 1/3 square

  yard, and lying ¼ square yard, measured at right angles

  to the trajectory.

  If there are 300 bullets in a 16 PR. Shrapnel, and the angle

  of the cone be 1 in 4, then for firing at men standing the

  cross section of the cone should be 150 square yards,

  at men kneeling 100 square yards, and at men lying

  45 square yards, which fixes the proper distance of the

  point of burst from the target at 52 yards 44 and 40 yards

  respectively

  So that we see that the  bess  target each man exposes

  the closer up should the shrapnel burst, irrespective

  of whether the men are one yard apart or ten

  N.B
  

  In practice it is quite impossible to observe the distance

  from the target at which the shrapnel bursts, we can

  only observe the height

• March 29, 2017 21:15:59 Cheryl Ellsworth

  depends on the target surface offered by each man, it is

  immaterial whether the men are shoulder to shoulder or in
  

  a thin skirmishing line

  For practical purposes we may take the target surface

  of a man standing as ½ square yard, kneeling 1/3 square

  yard, and lying ¼ square yard, measured at right angles

  to the trajectory.

  If there are 300 bullets in a 16 PR. Shrapnel, and the angle

  of the cone be 1 in 4, then for firing at men standing the

  cross section of the cone should be 150 square yards,

  at men kneeling 100 square yards, and at men lying

  45 square yards, which fixes the proper distance of the

  point of burst from the target at 52 yards 44 and 40 yards

  respectively

  So that we see that the  bess  target each man exposes

  the closer up should the shrapnel burst, irrespective

  of whether the men are one yard apart or ten

  N.B
  

  In practice it is quite impossible to observe the distance

  from the target at which the shrapnel bursts, we can

  only observe the height

  
  

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