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In any great action where many guns are engaged, the enormous volume of 
smoke will render the use of auxiliary marks imperative. The following is the 
shortest method ensuring the continuation of fire against a target that has be¬ 
come lost to sight. 
When the Battery commences its ranging, tell off the windward gun to take 
the angle of sight of the target, i.e., angle between the line of sight and the 
horizontal. This is done by laying the gun point blank on the object and measur¬ 
ing the angle at which it stands by clinometer, of which each gun is now provided 
with one. The ranging having been completed, the Battery Commander may 
wish to pass from tangent to clinometer elevation on account of the target having- 
become indistinct. All he has to do is to order the tangent elevation, plus or minus 
the angle of sight, according as the target is above or below the Battery to be 
given by clinometer. As far as line of tire is concerned, if the target be a long 
continuous one, such as a line of infantry, it is quite sufficient to run the gun up 
into the same wheel tracks ; if the target is an agglomeration of smaller points, 
such as a line of guns, then auxiliary points for liue only must be established, 
elevation being given by clinometer. 
(vii.) Tendency on the part of Battery Commander to move about in the 
Battery. His place in action is on the windward flank, and it is important that 
his suboulinates should know where to look for him. 
(viii.) Delay frequently occurred when a Battery was ordered to limber up 
before advancing to a fresh position by there being so many shell fuzed that they 
could not be packed away in the limbers at once, and it was necessary to wait till 
the fuzes were removed and plugs replaced. There should never be more shell 
fuzed than can be packed into the portable magazine available. The Battery is 
then ready to limber up at any moment and take up a fresh position. 
OBITUARY. 
Lieut.-Colonel William Whateley, whose death occurred at Stoke Damerel, 
on 18th September, 1893, joined the ltegiment as Lieutenant, 1st April, 1863 ; 
became Captain, 1st January, 1876; Major, 9th December, 1882; and retired 
with the honorary rank of Lieut.--Colonel, on 3rd July, 1886. Lieut.-Colonel 
Whateley served in the Soudan Expedition, 1885-6, and was present at the action 
of Giniss. (Despatches, London Gazette, 9th February, 1886 ; medal and bronze 
star). 
Majou C. B. Wynne, died at Delgany, County Wicklow, on 11th October, 
1893. He joined the Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant, on 20th December, 1832; 
became Lieutenant, 5th June, 1834; 2nd Captain, 15th April, 1844; Captain, 
1st November, 1848 ; and retired on full pay, 22nd March, 1853. He was 
granted the honorary rank of Major, 28th November, 1854. 
Majou W. B. Young, whose death is announced as having occurred at Ascreavie, 
Forfarshire, N.B , was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 6th August, 182S; be¬ 
came Lieutenant, 1st October, 1830 ; 2nd Captain, 23rd November, 1841 ; 
Captain, 23rd May, 1846 ; and retired on full pay, 6th August, 1850. He was 
granted the honorary rank of Major, 28th November, 1854. 
