fire control: home guard training series

How often do we hear commanders say they are practically defenceless without machine guns and anti-tank weapons? Yet they have hundreds of men armed with the fi nest weapon of all - the rifl e! For general use there is nothing to take its place. Nothing so universally deadly; nothing to beat it in att ack and defence. Fire Control is one of a series of training books writt en in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries’ archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to handle their rifl es and strategically engage the enemy.

Colonel G. A. Wade was a British soldier and author who wrote a series of training manuals for the British Home Guard in the expectation of a German invasion.