General Staff War Office

Manual of Field Engineering, 1911 General Staff War Office

The British army's field engineering manual from 1911 covers field fortification; tools, materials and their employment; working parties and their tasks; improvements of the field of fire and utilization of existing cover; earthworks; obstacles; defense of localities and positions; field level and field geometry; camping arrangements (field kitchens, field ovens, water supply, watering animals, purifying water, shelters, latrines); knotting and lashings; blocks, tackles and use of spars; communications; bridges and the passage of water (bridging expedients, tackle for swimming horses, trestle bridges, cantilever bridges, frame bridges, floating bridges, piers of boats, piers of casks, rafts and piers of logs, anchors and cables, ferries and flying bridges, etc.); hasty demolitions with explosives; hasty demolition of railways and telegraphs without explosives; and a variety of appendices.