[13] The command Load is only required for drill purposes, or when charging rifles before leaving quarters on service. It is not used in fire orders.
[14] The advantages and disadvantages of different forms of cover, such as hedges, banks, walls, ridges, folds of ground, bushes and undergrowth, knolls and small hollows, buildings and enclosed spaces, rocks, mounds of earth, skyline and continuous cover running diagonally to the line of advance, or which runs or zigzags across the line of advance, are discussed in this section.
[15] Instructions for training both the eyesight and hearing for use by night are contained in Sec. 41 of Drill and Field Training of this series.
[16] [See also Sec 72], para 5.
[17] Military features of importance in connection with ground and cover are dealt with in Drill and Field Training and Field Entrenchments of this series.
[18] [See also Sec. 72], para. 8.
[19] See Sec. 28 of Drill and Field Training of this series for information as to communications, for which, with information as to ammunition supply see also Infantry Training 1914. Infantry covering fire is dealt with in Sec. 44, para. 13, of this book. Arrangements for covering fire by machine-guns are dealt with in Machine-Gun Training of this series (see also Field Service Regulations and Infantry Training, 1914).
[20] With regard to opening fire, see Sec. 44 paras. 3 to 6.
[21] [See Preface], para. 11.
[22] Sec. 13 should be read in connection with this paragraph.