With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers
BY
MAJOR H. HESKETH-PRICHARD
D.S.O., M.C.
WITH A FOREWORD
BY
GENERAL LORD HORNE OF STIRKOKE
G.C.B., K.C.M.G., etc.
Illustrations by ERNEST BLAIKLEY, Artists’ Rifles, late Sergeant-Instructor at the First Army School of S.O.S., the late Lieut. B. Head, The Hertfordshire Regt., and from Photographs.
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FOREWORD
By General Lord Horne, G.C.B.
It may fairly be claimed that when hostilities ceased on November 11th, 1918, we had outplayed Germany at all points of the game.
Perhaps as a nation we failed in imagination. Possibly Germany was more quick to initiate new methods of warfare or to adapt her existing methods to meet prevailing conditions. Certainly we were slow to adopt, indeed, our souls abhorred, anything unsportsmanlike.
Had it been left to us, “Gas” would have taken no part in the Great European War.