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Infantry Memorandum
(Second World War)
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Infantry Training
Memorandum was was a pamphlet series in which individual
booklets were published annually or semi-annually. The
publication schedule was dependent on the amount of new
information that needed to be distributed to each officer and
cadet in the infantry - to include reconnaissance, rifle,
machine gun, motor, airborne, parachute, and army tank
battalions. These memoranda were designed to inform the reader
of new (or changes to) tactics and doctrine being used by the
Army at that time. The Canadian Memorandum was a reprint of the
applicable British manual and both types of publications were
used concurrently.1 The pamphlets were widely
distributed in the Canadian Army during the Second World War.
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| No. 2
Mar 1943 |
- The School of Infantry -
What it is
- Firm Doctrine
- Notes on recent
development in British infantry tactics
- Fire positions, fire
orders and fire control
- The use of the
camouflage helmet net
- Consolidation of duties
for section, platoon and company commanders
- Experimental
- The rifle section
organized into three groups
- Vanguard
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| No. 3
May 1944 |
- The Night Attack
- Reliefs in the Line
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| No. 4
Jul 1944 |
- Reorganization
- Corrections to Infantry
Training Pamphlets
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| No. 5
May 1945 |
- The Night Attack
- Reliefs in the Line
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| No. 6
Apr 1945 (issued before No. 5) |
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| No. 7
Jul 1945 |
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Notes
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Article and
photos by Ed Storey.
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