A hand-book dictionary for the militia and volunteer services

Including an epitome of the duties of all ranks, and of the interior economy of a regiment of artillery militia, regulations for organising the officers' mess, definitions of military and technical terms applied in fortification and artillery, or used in quarters, camps, and campaigning, route marching, proceeding by rail and road, and embarking the horses, billeting, conveyance, and embarking of baggage. Qualifications, tactical and legal, required of officers on appointment to, and promotion in, regiments of artillery and infantry militia With a variety of other useful information on military subjects

Compiled from works published under official and other competent authority. By lieut-colonel Percy Scott, commandant Isle of Wight Artillery Militia