Treatise on Ammunition
Treatise on Ammunition is a series of manuals detailing all British service ammunition and associated equipment in use at the date of publication, published by the War Office at approximate 5 year intervals. They contain diagrams, measurements, storage and transportation instructions useful to officers involved in storage, transport and firing of ammunition. It is an important primary source of information for military historians researching the types and capabilities of ammunition available to the British military at the time of various conflicts. However, the individual editions lack historical context, in that they omit dates and rationales for particular types of ammunition being added to or removed from the inventory.
The editions are notable for the many pages of colour lithographs of cartridges, shells and fuzes by Malby & Sons.
The best known edition is the 10th, accurate as at 1st August 1914 and published in 1915. This edition constitutes a definitive description of the ammunition with which Britain began World War I. This and other editions are available as modern facsimile reprints.
Editions :-
- 1st
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 4th. Published 1887
- 5th
- 6th
- 7th
- 8th. Published 1905.
- 9th. Published 1911
- 10th. Dated 1st August 1914. Published 1915.
- 11th