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Updated: May 2, 2025
But now the ordinary infantry were expected to become rifle-bombers, although their knowledge of bombs was of the most elementary description. Two problems therefore faced those responsible for the training and equipment of the rifle-bombers. First how to get them even partially trained in the time, and second to invent some apparatus for carrying the rifle-grenades.
Each company was in future to consist of four sections one riflemen pure and simple, another Lewis gunners, another bombers, and the fourth rifle-bombers. It was perhaps an unfortunate time to spring this change on the B.E.F., just on the eve of a new offensive.
Its object was to make the platoon a self-contained unit of specialists, with its four sections divided into riflemen, Lewis gunners, bombers and rifle-bombers. This was obviously to require from the average man a higher standard of specialisation than before, and consequently threw greater responsibility on the platoon and section commanders.
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