John Breed, Diary and Training diary, item 125

• March 30, 2017 00:39:39 Cheryl Ellsworth

  the detachment. If the shell strikes the shield it will

  make a small hole and will burst from two or three

  yards beyond the No 1 at the point of the trail will probably

  be killed and also the Section Commander, but all

  men close behind the shield will not suffer unless

  in the path of the shell

  At shielded guns the fuze is lengthened by rise of the

  corrector scale, till it gives 75 per cent of percussion

  bursts and 25 per cent of bursts in the air. It must be

  remembered that a shell bursting after passing through

  a gun shield will appear to be over.

  So far we have only decided or considered the effect on

  fixed targets consists of an area of ground thinly covered

  with men in successive skirmishing lines or scattered

  formations, then the depth of the zone of bullets effect is

  of great importance

  If we range accurately on any part of a deep target,

  the men beyond the distance covered by the bullets will

  escape; if we cover a deep area by Searching we shall

  expend a great deal of ammunition for a small results

  therefore for a deep target we require a deep zone of

  shrapnel effect

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