BATTLE PRACTICE
EIGHTEENTH MACHINE-GUN SECTION. . The big field day for artillery and ma-chine-guns which had become a monthly feature of . training at Eeatherston Camp was limited in the caso of the Eighteenth Reinforcements to battle practice with the. machine-guns. This was held yesterday at Papa-wai, CaptainE. G. Fraser, Chief Machine-Gun Instructor, being in charge, .The big-gun practice has been indefinitely postponed. The Signal Section of the Eighteenth Specialist Company, maintained field service telephone communication between the'guns, and battalion and brigade headquarters. Tho targets', as in previous practices, were situated across tho river, and some good shoots ing was made by th'e-guns; The whole of tlie ; work showed that the Eighteenth Machine-Gun 'Section; I'-ad profited by the training imparted by their instructors. :
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2896, 7 October 1916, Page 9
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121BATTLE PRACTICE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2896, 7 October 1916, Page 9
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