Word: liaisoning
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...unheard-of co-operation among different arms of the service. No longer will the infantry in an "attack" upon a position be forced to depend for artillery preparation and support upon red flags waved from hilltops. Real artillerymen will be present with real guns, the opportunities for practice in liaison will be great,--but this is as far as the advantages run. Practically speaking, the actual gunners will mean no more to the infantry than did the red flags, unless, of course, they set up a real barrage, which would be quite out of the question. It is true that...
...Governments for the special purpose of experimenting with a system whereby the range might be found for artillery by the use of a method of sound triangulation. During his experiments he was at the front a great deal of the time and in connection with his work on artillery liaison had an unusual opportunity to observe the aviation branch of the service...
...since to summer of 1914 he has been continuously connected with the British War Office. He was commissioner for Lord Kitchener in France until the latter's death. Then he became Lord Curzon's French representative in questions connected with the English air service. Since 1917 he has been Liaison Officer between the War Officer and the Minister of Pensions...
...beginning of the war until the latter's death, when he became Lora Curzon's representative in France in connection with the business of the air service. Since the end of 1916 he has represented the War Office in the treatment and training of disabled soldiers, and is now Liaison Officer between the War Office and the Ministry of Pensions, a post which he has held since...
...favor of the Fuel Board. Week-end parties were planned for months in advance,--a five-day schedule appeared too good to be true. It was, and our day-dreams of this new Utopia have faded into oblivion, for Monday is to continue as of yore: a day of "liaison" between a merry week-end and a dreadful week to come...