ARTILLERY FROM AN INFANTRY OFFICER'S 
POINT OF VIEW. | 
BY 
CAPTAIN T. D. PILCHER,! Norraumpernann Fustiiers. 
(D.-A.-A.-G. Dublin District). 
(A Lecture delivered at the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, Thursday, 12th March, 1896). 
GENERAL THE RicuT HonovRaBLE Sin R. H. Burier, V.C., In THE CHAIR. 
CuarrmaAN—Gentlemen, I have much pleasure in introducing Captain 
Pilcher to you. 
Caprain Pitcuur—Sir Redvers Buller and gentlemen, I should not 
presume to address this assembly on such a subject as mine were it 
notin the hope that by so doing, I may encourage my brother linesmen 
to devote more time and thought to considering artillery questions. 
For it is only by studying the strong and the weak points of the 
other arms and by playing up to them that we can afford each other 
that mutual support which is absolutely essential to good results. 
Many infantrymen have a fixed idea that there is some mystery 
connected with artillery subjects which cannot be solved by anyone 
not, belonging to that arm and, further, that it would be profanity in 
an outsider to try to solve these esoteric questions. That, however, 
this is not the case is proved by you having so kindly invited me, a 
linesman, to lecture to you here, at the Royal Artillery Institution at 
the Head-Quarters of Artillery in the British Isles on an artillery 
subject. 
Co-operation between artillery and infantry has always been a 
matter of importance, but it is doubly so now that modern improve- 
ments have rendered artillery proportionately more effective and have 
at the same time made it practically impossible for attacking infantry 
under ordinary circumstances to drive defending infantry from a 
position until the latter have been thoroughly shaken by artillery fire. 
Now to be able to turn its attention to the hostile infantry, the 
artillery must first have gained an ascendency over the hostile artillery, 
1 Any member particularly interested in the results of artillery fire in Germany can receive 
further details by applying to Captain T. D, Pilcher, D.-A.-A.-G., Dublin District. 
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