EXAMPLES OF FIRE ORDERS.
Normal Fire Order using One Elevation.
Range.
Aiming mark.
Fire (signalled).
Cease fire (signalled).
Changes in elevation (up or down 100), as required.
Combined Sights.
Range and differences.
Aiming mark.
Fire (signalled).
Changes in elevation (left gun up 200, right gun down 200) (or more, as required).
When Brigaded within Hearing.
The B.M.G.O. issues fire orders direct to the Nos. 1 as above.
When “differences” “by sections” are required the fire order will be as follows:—
B.M.G.O.
(a) By sections—Range—Differences. (Pause for section officers to name the number of their sections and the “range” for their sections; they do not repeat the “differences.”) (b) Aiming mark. (c) Fire.
Traversing Fire.
Range.
Target (naming right and left limits to be traversed).
“Inwards traversing.”
Fire (signalled).
The same method is employed when laying on the centre, the caution “Outwards traversing” being given.
When brigaded within hearing orders are issued as follows:—
By B.M.G.O.:—
Range.
Limits of traverse.
Fire (signalled).
Section officer repeats limits to be traversed, and immediately issues orders respecting ground to be traversed by their own sections, corresponding to their own positions.
Vertical Searching Fire.
Range.
Aiming mark.
To “range” vertical searching.
Fire (signalled).
Bracketing Fire.
Ranges—bracketing.
Aiming mark.
Fire.