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Appendix I

MOST SECRET

Subject: Training Directive 2 NZ DIV ARTY

—8 Aug–31 Aug 43

HQ 2 NZ DIV ARTY
BM 1/5
1 Aug 43.

• 4 NZ FD REGT

• 5 NZ FD REGT

• 6 NZ FD REGT

• 7 NZ A TK REGT

• 14 NZ LT AA REGT

• 36 NZ SVY BTY

• 32 NZ FD REGT

• G 2 NZ DIV for information.

• RA GHQ) for information.

• CRA 6 S.A. ARMD DIV for information.

1. The following is issued as a general training directive for the period of the practice camp.

2. Routine:—

• Reveille — 0530 hrs.

• Roll Call — 0545 hrs.

• Breakfast — 0645 hrs.

• Parade — 0730 hrs.

• Lights Out — 2230 hrs.

No other hours are laid down as in general work will cease when the task is completed.

3. The practice Camp will be divided into three periods each of one week.

• 1st Week — Bty Training.

• 2nd Week — Regtl Training.

• 3rd Week — Div Arty Training.

4. Basis of Training.

The following is promulgated as a basis of training for the respective branches:

fd arty:

(a)	Deployment and manoeuvre.
(b)	Observation and control of fire.
(c)	Exercise of all Commanders in the control of their command in the field.
(d)	Applied gunnery.

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A TK ARTY:

(a)	Deployment and manoeuvre up to Regtl basis.
(b)	Establishment of A Tk screens by day and by night, special reference to digging, camouflage and concealment.
(c)	Control of fire.
(d)	Exercise of all Commanders in the control of their command in the field.

AA ARTY:

(a)	Deployment and manoeuvre up to Regtl basis.
(b)	Protection of V.P.s, defiles and moving columns.
(c)	Exercise of all Comds in the handling of their commands in the field.
(d)	Open sight shooting.

5. Training directive in detail.

(a)	Bty Training. (i) Deployment. (ii) Advance of a Bty as a whole. (iii) Advance of a Bty stepping up troops. (iv) Withdrawal of a Bty as a whole. (v) Withdrawal of a Bty by Tps. (vi) Night deployment. (vii) Fire with movement. (viii) Digging, camouflage and concealment.
(b)	Regtl Training. (i) Deployment. (ii) Advance of a Regt as a whole carrying survey forward. (iii) Stepping up a Regt by Btys. (iv) Withdrawal of a Regt as a whole. (v) Withdrawal of a Regt by Btys. (vi) Fire with movement. (vii) Quick barrage. (viii) Concentrations. Method A B C. (ix) Static gunnery two days. (For range allotment see Appx ‘A’.)1 (x) Compilation and issue of gun programmes.
(c)	Div Arty Training. (i) Preliminary Recce. (ii) Deployment under dark. (iii) Issue of Barrage Trace and compilation of gun programme. (iv) Digging, camouflage and concealment. page 742 (v) Gunnery exercises: (1) Air Burst Ranging. (2) Meteor from Air Bursts. (3) Concentrations. Methods A B. STONK. (4) Sound Ranging and FS exercise. (vi) Firing time programme by dark. (vii) Rapid advance for second punch. (viii) Passage of minefields. (ix) Quick barrage. (x) Break through. (xi) Rapid deployment and meteor by air burst ranging. (xii) Registration and recording of targets. Quick fire plan. (xiii) Smoke screens predicted and observed. (xiv) D.F., C.B., and harassing fire tasks. (xv) Relief under dark. (xvi) Dumping ammunition.

6. Deployment.

For the purpose of the forthcoming exercises desert formations will be dropped and deployment will be done off the existing roads and tracks on the range. Careful attention will be paid to march discipline, training, timings, etc., on roads.

7. Static Gunnery.

During the periods of static gunnery allotted to Regts Regtl Comds will pay every attention to the correct editing and passage of fire orders, strict signal discipline and adherence to the correct rules of gunnery. The maximum instructional value is to be secured from the rounds expended.

8. Ammunition Allotment.

The following provisional allotment is made:—

Fd Regts:	Observed shooting	—	20 r.p.g.
	Bty Training	—	15 r.p.g.
	Regtl Training	—	20 r.p.g.
	div arty Training	—	50 r.p.g.
A Tk Regt:	6-pdr AP	—	3072.
	17-pdr AP	—	1024.
AA Regt:	To be notified later.