British Army Military Training Pamphlets of the Second World War era

On this page I will be publishing the content of the Military Training Pamphlets I have acquired over the years. Some useful pamphlets have already been published commercially. Notably the small unit tactical doctrines of the British Army have been very interesting, and form part of the thinking behind Richard Clarke's platoon level rules Chain of Command

Here I intend to offer my own collection of original documents gratis, as a small contribution to the body of common knowledge about WWII tactical doctrine.

The originals are quite fragile now. Many of the staples have lost their molecular integrity as I attempted to remove them. It will take me some time to prepare and scan them, but I will try to publish on as regular a schedule as I can achieve. In the meantime, I have prepared a list of the document titles (below). If any of you good people out there have particular titles you would like to see sooner, please let me know. The larger pamphlets will take longer to process.

British Army Military Training Pamphlets                                                      Approx.

no of pages

No 2 – The offensive (1943)                                                                                                   64

No 3 - The defence (supersedes No 23 part II)                                                                      46

No 3A – Notes on tactical handling of the new (1938) battalion (1938)                               06

No 4 – Withdrawal (1943)                                                                                                      26

No 5 – Org’n of field and RHA regiments and tactical handling (1938)                              10

No 6 – Mechanized movement by road (1939)                                                                      50

No 7 – Intercommunication in the field (1938)                                                                      74

No 8 – Tactical handling of army tank battalions (1938)                                                       10

No 9 – Supply in the field (1938)                                                                                           44

No 12 – Org., training and employment of mechanized div’l cavalry regt (1939)                 26

No 13 – Tactical handling of carrier platoon in attack (1939)                                                04

No 16 – Organization and tactical handling of machine guns (1939)                                    10

No 17 – The medium artillery regiment – drill and manoeuvre and control of fire (1939)    92

No 23 – Operations

Part I – General principles, fighting troops and characteristics (1942)                       30

Part II - The infantry division in the defence (1942)                                                  40

Part III – Appreciation, orders, intercomm’n and movements (1939)                       70

(in 2 parts) Part 1  Part 2

Part IV – Protection (1939)                                                                                        10

Part VIII – Inf and arm’d divs in opposed crossing of water obstacle (1942)          48

Part IX – Infantry division in the attack (1941)                                                         84

Part X – Infantry division in the advance (1941)                                                       44

No 30 Field Engineering (all Arms)

Part III – Obstacles (1943)                                                                                         58

Part IV - Booby traps (1941)                                                                                      26

Part V - Protective Works (1944)                                                                               70

Part VI – Demolitions (1945)                                                                                     38

No 33 - Training in fieldcraft and elementary tactics (1940)                                                 58

No 37 – The training of an infantry battalion (1940)                                                             78

No 38 – Bomber attacks on troops (1940)                                                                              08

No 39 – The infantry (rifle) battalion

Part I   - Organisation and characteristics, the carrier platoon (1940)             18

Part II – The carrier platoon (1941)                                                                            30

No 40 – Anti-tank mines (1940)                                                                                             20

No 55 – Fighting in built-up areas (1943) (incl. photographs and colour maps)                    55

No 59 – Anti-tank gunnery (1943)                                                                                         22

No 60 – The tactical employment of Armoured Car and Reconnaissance Regiments

Part 1 – General principles re tactical empl’t of recce units (1943)                            16

No 65 – Use of wireless in armoured formations (1944)     link                                                   08

No 74 – Rafting and bridging

Part II – Supply and movement of bridging equipment (1944)                                 14

Part III – Assault crossing equipment (1944)                                                             83

Sorry for the awful formatting, my HTML skills are worse than lacking.

First effort:

No 16 – Organization and tactical handling of machine guns (1939) 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1OPX5RKTv9KaGIzQnpGZzFtN2M

No 23 Part VIII - Infantry and Armoured Divisions in the Opposed Crossing of a Water Obstacle (1942)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MsB79317Wp_rGA24t3m4lhSrUrJmYqdu/view?usp=sharing

No 8 - Notes on the Tactical Handling of Army Tank Battalions (1938)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RcECyHM8zrEi0VNf2mJ1E7iH27kO_JUA

No 60 Part 1 - The Tactical employment of Armoured Cr and Reconnaissance Regiments (1943)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hLLFSF9Jcn_xKobc62Nx90TUKZ9wn_Hv/view?usp=sharing