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INSTRUCTION IN BAYONET FIGHTING.
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(
This chapter dealing with Bayonet Fighting is to be substituted
for Chapter III, Appendix to the Training Manuals,
1905,
and
will be included in the next edition of that work.
)
§ 1.
General Instructions for Bayonet Fighting.
1. The following instructions in bayonet fighting have been
drawn up with the object of teaching men to use their bayonets
with good effect in action. Some of the details, although they
afford an excellent training for this result, are, however, more
particularly adapted to competition fighting. It is—owing to
certain necessary restrictions—impossible to draw up a system
of fighting suitable only for the actual combat that will contain
sufficient variety to ensure the required handiness and sufficient
interest to encourage men to practise it; but the system here
laid down is of as practical a nature for the actual fight as can
be devised, and the acquirement of skill in it will ensure the
necessary control of the weapon on the field of battle.
2. The use of the bayonet as a weapon of attack and
defence is a necessary part of the instruction of the soldier
trained to fight on foot.
In teaching bayonet fighting individual instruction is
essential; some of the preliminary lessons, however, can be
given in small squads. The best way to give the required
individual instruction is by the method of “
Instructor and
Pupil
,” followed by two pupils opposing one another under the
Instructor’s supervision, as is explained in the “Assaulting
lessons.”
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To ensure individual instruction, it is desirable that not more
than four pupils be given to each Instructor, and that the
same Instructor should take the same pupils throughout their
course.
Every encouragement should be given to the men to
practise bayonet fighting.
3. Leg work in small squads with dummy rifle and work
at the “wall pads” (lessons iii, iv, and vi) should be practised
frequently even by skilled fighters, and, if performed in an
intelligent way with plenty of activity and ease of movement
combined with rapidity and energy, should result in greatly
improved fighting powers.
4. The following lessons are arranged in progressive order
and, in the first instance, should be taught in the order in
which they are laid down.
Great importance should be attached to the Assaulting
lessons, as it is by means of them that the men are given
a combative spirit and are enabled to see step by step the
fighting application of each detail which they are taught.
They relieve the dulness of routine work, encourage the
spirit of emulation, and give the men from an early stage
of their instruction some idea of actual fighting, so that
they are worked up to the final fighting stage almost uncon-
sciously. The Assaulting lessons (lessons ix, xiii, xiv, and xvi)
should therefore be frequently practised by all, including skilled
fighters, and, when once they have been learned, should always
form part of a day’s lesson.
Pupils should not be allowed to practise the actual “Assault”
until they have had plenty of practise in “No. IV Assaulting
Lesson” (lesson xvi).
5. Suppleness, lightness, ease, and freedom of movement
should be aimed at throughout the instruction, and
all stiffness
must be carefully avoided
. It should be noted that stiffness is
often acquired as a habit by keeping men too long in one
position.
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6. When first practising the Assault after having taken
lessons only, the pupil should not be discouraged because he
cannot bring off his attacks, &c., exactly as he expects, but he
should try again under the eye of an Instructor, think over the
reasons of his want of success, and work on the principles which
he has been taught.
7. Great attention should be devoted to developing quickness,
energy, and rapidity of movement. It is especially important
to insist on a good and very rapid
attack pushed well home
.
A resolute attack of this nature has far more chance of
success than one that is not pushed with the same determina-
tion, and, even if it be parried, the very determination and
energy with which it was delivered frequently so upsets the
adversary that he is unable to “Return.” A half-hearted
attack is dangerous only to the attacker.
The training must also aim at developing the power of
making a
quick recovery
after an attack has failed, and a
good
parry and return
, when attacked.
If the instruction be made progressive and lessons taught in
the order here given, with repetition whenever necessary, the
men should become efficient in the use of the bayonet and
acquire a practical knowledge of its use in the combat.
8. Bayonet lighting should never be taught as a parade
exercise.
When men are inspected in bayonet fighting, they should be
seen at the Assault (Loose Play).
§ 2.
Lesson
i.
In this lesson the pupil should carry a wooden dummy rifle
and wear a left hand glove.
From the position of Order Arms, advance
the left foot about 2
½
foot-lengths in the
direction of the adversary, bending the knees
well in doing so, at the sarge time cant the
rifle to the front (bayonet leading) and seize
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