Artillery, Warfare Enigma
The entry below is a synopsis of our speakers talk on 20th September 2023.
A very interesting presentation this week by Mr Jeff Bennett, he started by saying every battle in the last 300 years, the Royal Artillery were used to find, track and strike the enemy at a great range anywhere in the battlefield, in all weathers and at any time, in order to defeat the them.
Also known as the Gunners, the Royal Artillery are everywhere across the battlefield, providing the British Army with its eyes, ears and firepower. He went on to describe how it was used and the different types of guns that were used by both sides of the conflicts.
Jeff went on to describe the different types of shells used in the types of terrain and why they were so effective when ranging became more accurate, it was also said that the gunners never saw the enemy due to the range between the gunners and the front line of the enemy also 70% of Casulties are down to the artillary.
There are two principal tasks for artillery on the offence. The first is to support manoeuvre forces by suppressing enemy defensive emplacements, thereby preventing direct fire targeting of advancing forces. The second is to counter the enemy artillery which will begin to target the advancing friendly forces.
The talk was at times very light-handed which kept the men amused time after time..
Questions followed on several points to conclude this very interesting presentation..
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