Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first of a number of lectures on the use and operation of modern artillery in the present war, Captain Dupont, of the French Mission, addressed the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps last evening at the regular lecture period. Captain Dupont, who speaks excellent English, delivered his address himself, devoting the time to an introductory description of the various types of shells and to a discussion of their respective values under different conditions. By tables and diagrams he pointed out the penetrating power of high explosive shells of the several calibres, explaining its variation according to the weight of the projectile...
...under Master of Fencing. 1.30-2.30 (section rooms) Minor tactics; text, Bjornstad, pp. 78-88. 2.45-3.15, Signalling, wig-wag code. 3.15-4.15, First Aid demonstration by Dr. Darling and assistants. 4.15-5.30, Squad and Company drill, close and extended order. 7.45, Lecture by an Officer of the French Mission...
Tuesday: 8-9 (section rooms) I. D. R., pp. 123-131. 9.15-5.30, Practical work, field fortifications under Officer of the French Mission...
...subject of the duties of the platoon leader in the trenches. In addition to the usual program, the lecture was vividly illustrated by stereoptican pictures made from photographs which Lieutenant Morize took while in the trenches on the western front. Few of the lectures which the French Mission have given have been of greater practical value and interest...
...lectures which are being given to the Corps by the French Mission are to be printed, and by themselves will form a book on the European war more up-to-date than at present we have in this country...