ESTABLISHMENT OE A BATTERY, 
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Section 9. 
POSITION OF THE BATTERY COMMANDER. 
During the trial shot firing*, the battery commander should not leave 
the position laid down in para. 2, except under the most urgent cir¬ 
cumstances ; in the succeeding rounds, however, he should change his 
position occasionally to supervise the service of the guns generally. 
The practice and look out reports are kept in the meanwhile to 
enable the battery commander to judge at any time of the shooting of 
particular guns. 
If he should find it necessary to leave the battery at any time 
to supervise the look out men, the senior divisional commander takes 
command of the battery, but the battery commander keeps the regula¬ 
tion of the fire in his hands, and keeps up his communication with the 
battery for t^his purpose. 
Section 10. 
TRIAL ROUNDS WITH COMMON SHELL. 
The trial rounds are always fired at the same point of the target 
aimed at. 
When the laying is corrected from the results obtained from 
successive guns, the battery commander orders the necessary correc¬ 
tion in elevation after each round. 
This correction (on the order being repeated by the divisional 
commanders) is taken up by all the other guns. 
The battery commander gives the order for the necessary cor¬ 
rection in deflection to be given to the gun last fired (according to 
the error in direction ascertained by the look out man) for instance 
“ No. 2 gun + 4.” 
The terror in direction having been repeated by the divisional 
commanders, the No. 1 having made the necessary correction on the 
scales repeats the order sufficiently loud for the detachment to hear it, 
and note it. 
Should there be no error in direction, or should the deviation be so 
slight as not to require correction according* to the regulation practice, 
the battery commander does not order any correction unless after a series 
of rounds it should be found requisite. 
If corrections are ordered successively from gun to gun, the battery 
commander in naming the change of elevation, gives the No. of the gun, 
for instance “ No. 5 gun 11 T %° ” on which the divisional commander 
concerned repeats the word, and the gun named keeps to this elevation 
until further orders. 
Section 11. 
TRIAL ROUNDS WITH SHRAPNEL. 
In firing shrapnel, the length of fuze is given before the elevation is 
named. With this exception, the words of command are the same as for 
common shell. 
