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Good afternoon all,

I have been working on collecting and creating a finding aid/index for the Central Distribution Section (CDS) and Stationery Service (SS) pamphlets created by the British Army. I have used the various lists available on the internet including the “CDS and SS Manuals” list maintained by John Armatys and the lists put together by green_acorn on this forum.  Where I hope to build upon them is to gather all the imprint and bibliographical details and find a confirmed source for each pamphlet.

An increasing number of pamphlets are available online, either hosted as a standalone document or found within archival documents that have been digitized and uploaded, including the WO 95 series of war diaries at the National Archives of the UK (TNA).  Here are some pamphlets from CDS 1-15. I hope to upload further links as I work my way through the list.

 

CDS 1 Notes on Field Defences. Collated by the General Staff

https://fdocuments.in/download/notes-on-field-defences-1914

(Slightly fuzzy copy, unknown original source)

 

CDS 2 Notes from the Front. Collated by the General Staff

Hathitrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000443434

National Library of Australia (NLA): http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-38121356

(Contains Australian Reprints of CDS 2 and CDS 3 Notes from the Front. Part II. Collated by the General Staff)

State Library of Victoria (SLV): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/111705

(Contains Australian Reprints of CDS 2 and CDS 3 Notes from the Front. Part II. Collated by the General Staff, substantially similar to NLA copies)

CDS 4 Notes from the Front, Part III. and Further Notes on Field Defences.

National Archives of Australia (NAA): NAA A5954 191/26 https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=644840

(Australian Reprint)

CDS 5 Trench Warfare. Notes on Attack and Defence

NLA: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-35640250 (Australian Reprint)

British Library: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_88882/9/28

CDS 6 No. 15.--Notes on Field Defences

AWM Official Record: AWM27 320/4 - [Military Engineering:] Notes issued by the General Staff on field defences - Nos 4-12, 15, and 17-18 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2749358 (also contains CDS 14 No. 17 -- Notes on Field Defences. Mining and CDS 22 Notes on Field Defences No. 18. Employment of Tunnelling [sic] Companies, R.E.)

Note: A retyped version of CDS 15 is contained in CDS 53: Notes from the Front, Part IV and further notes on Field Defences available at SLV http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/112157

CDS 9 Notes on the Co-operation of Aircraft and other arms when the army is on the move

The National Archives of the UK (TNA) WO 95/1561/2  http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14053123

(Note: War Diary piece numbers i.e. the /2 above, are estimates as pamphlets were found using the DVD “The War Diaries of the Battalions who fought the Great War on the Western Front”

 

CDS 11 Stove Pipe Attachment for Machine Guns

TNA: WO 95/1511/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14017034

(? A retyped version of actual CDS 11 pamphlet as this one has no print markings)

CDS 12 Hyposcope attachment for Machine Guns

TNA: WO 95/1511/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14017034

(? A retyped version of actual CDS 12 pamphlet as this one has no print markings)

CDS 13 Co-operation of Aeroplanes with Artillery

TNA WO 95/3912/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14056354

CDS 14 No. 17 -- Notes on Field Defences. Mining

AWM Official Record: AWM27 320/4 - [Military Engineering:] Notes issued by the General Staff on field defences - Nos 4-12, 15, and 17-18 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2749358 (see CDS 6 above)

CDS 15 Memorandum on the training and employment of Grenadiers

A retyped version of this pamphlet is contained in CDS 53 (see CDS 6 above for link)

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Thanks for posting, very useful.

 

TR

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CDS 21-50

 

CDS 21 Notes on protection against poisonous gases

TNA: WO 95/2/9 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/69ee99b440974a01964c5a90ba99adaa

TNA: WO 95/1744/1 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14017328

(documents have same date, but different imprint information)

CDS 22 Notes on Field Defences No. 18. Employment of Tunnelling Companies, R.E.

AWM Official Record: AWM27 320/4 - [Military Engineering:] Notes issued by the General Staff on field defences - Nos 4-12, 15, and 17-18 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2749358

(also contains CDS 6 No. 15.--Notes on Field Defences and  CDS 14 No. 17 -- Notes on Field Defences. Mining)

CDS 23 Preliminary deductions, for instructions, from recent engagements [translation of a French document]

TNA: WO 95/2557/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055071

CDS 24 Object and Conditions of Combined Offensive Action

The infantry cannot do with a gun less" The place of the Artillery in the BEF, 1914-1918 Sanders Marble, Appendix 7: http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app07.html

(Marble’s thesis appendices also include several other SS pamphlets: http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/index.html)

CDS 25 Splinter Proofs

TNA: WO 95/2706/2 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055361

CDS 28 Notes on strengthening defensive portions of the line

TNA: WO 95/2708/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C14055373

CDS 31 Notes on registration of artillery targets

TNA: WO 95/2708/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C14055373

CDS 32 Instructions for calibration of guns in the field

TNA: WO 95/2708/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C14055373

CDS 35 German aeroplane seen June 29th 1915, over Houthnlst

AWM27 210/10 - [Aircraft and Aerial Equipment:] Sketches of German aeroplanes seen over Favrevil and Houthnlst (Jul 1915 - Apr 1917) https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2743214

CDS 39 Instructions for firing at aeroplanes with small arm ammunition

WO 95/2706/3 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055362

CDS 40 Co-operation of aeroplanes and artillery when using wireless

TNA: WO 95/2708/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055373

CDS 41 ? Report on the German trenches captured by us on June 16th, 1915

TNA WO 95/1651/3 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14053288

(? Retyped version of official report. Document marked O.B. 163, but no other imprint or publishing information)

CDS 45 Amendments to "Object, etc., of combined offensive action

WO 95/2708/5              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055374

(Document is only titled Note, but does appear to amend CDS 24 as the date and textual references map appropriately to the earlier pamphlet)

CDS 46 Fall of Shot

TNA WO 95/2706/3  http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055362

(? Complete pamphlet as refers to a diagram that is not present in war diary, I have not been able to find diagram)

CDS 50 Tactical Notes (July 1915)

TNA WO 95/1651/4 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1203297

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CDS/SS 50-98

 

CDS 50 Tactical Notes

Sanders Marble Thesis “The Infantry cannot do with a gun less": The Place of the Artillery in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918”, Appendix 8 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app08.html

CDS 53 Notes from the Front, Part IV and further notes on Field Defences

SLV: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/112157

CDS 55 Construction of shelters for machine guns

WO 95/2706/2  http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055361

(? Actual pamphlet as entitled “Note on the Construction of Casemates or Shelters for Machine Guns or for Field Guns of Small Calibre” and is a translation of a French document issued June 1915.)

CDS 67 Notes on visual signalling with service electric lamps

TNA WO 95/57/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/8235216b550e4fe684187cb5125597c2

(? Locally typed or template for CDS 67 as not marked as pamphlet and has no printing imprint)

CDS 71 Reports on the subject of German “Flammenwerfer”

TNA WO 95/1708/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14053380

TNA  WO 95/2123/1 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14054107

CDS 74 The training and employment of Grenadiers Oct 1915

National Library of Australia: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-52883918/

SS 77 Meteorological Notes and instructions for the use of Observers August 1917

Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll7/id/294

(reprint of SS 77, does not contain pamphlet markings or original imprint data. Verified correct against SS 77 held at Australian War Memorial)

CDS 81 German instructions regarding the steps to be taken to strengthen their position

TNA WO 95/2278/5 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14054436

(document not marked and was found in June 1915 war diary, but matches catalogue details of IWM entry https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1504000838 , TNA document could be basis for later issue as a CDS pamphlet)

CDS 92 Notes on Artillery Observation from Kite Balloons

TNA WO 95/1198/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14052591

(typed version of document with CDS markings, verified correct against CDS 92 held in TNA AIR 1/529/16/12/80)

CDS 93 Report on Experimental Firing with 18pr Shrapnel and H.E. at Calais

Marble Thesis (see above), appendix 9. http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app09.html

SS 98/4 Artillery Notes No. 4. Artillery in Offensive Operations April 1916

Marble Thesis, appendix 11 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app11.html

SS 98/5 Artillery Notes. No. 5 Wire Cutting by artillery

Marble Thesis, appendix 15 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app15.html

Field Artillery Notes, edited by the Army War College (USA) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001720962 contains what may be reprinted versions of

CDS 98/1, Jan 1916 Artillery Notes No. 1. Close Shooting in the Field

SS 139/3 Artillery Notes. No. 3 - Counter-Battery Work Feb 1917. Confirmed with actual pamphlet, minus title page (pamphlet number and imprint, etc…actual content is the same)

SS 98/4 (above)

SS 98/5 (above)

 

(other pamphlets are impossible to verify as I don’t have scans of the original, only retyped ones from Marble, which lack imprint data and title pages etc.)

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SS 101-127

 

SS 101 Notes for infantry officers on Trench Warfare

SLV http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/108040

Hathitrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001628255 (United States Army Reprint of revised version)

SS 102 Orders for Sentry and Gun team Commanders at No. - Machine Gun Position

Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library

https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/145/rec/1 pages 243 and 244

(? Retyped version as no header details, ?tape stuck to document when scanned on second page)

 

SS 106 Notes on the Tactical Employment of Machine Guns and Lewis Guns

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/1916-uk-ss-106

Amendments. Archive.org https://archive.org/details/1917-uk-ss-106-amendments

SS 107 Notes on Minor Enterprises

AWM: Papers of John Monash https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1422839

SS 109 Training of Divisions for Offensive Action

AWM: Papers of John Monash https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1422842

AWM: Papers of John Murdoch Archer https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2641778

Marble Thesis, appendix 12 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app12.html

SS 111C Typical Standing Orders for Action during Gas Alert and Hostile Gas Attacks

Australian Army website https://www.army.gov.au/our-heritage/history/primary-materials/1914-1918-world-war-one

SS 112 Consolidation of Trenches, localities and craters after assault and capture, with a note on rapid wiring

Wartime Canada http://wartimecanada.ca/sites/default/files/documents/Consolidation%20of%20Trenches.pdf

SLV http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/90382

State Library New South Wales http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110369141

Army War College, Notes on Recent Operations No 3 http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich (presumptive reprint, this volume contains several items that are reprints of British and French documents)

 

SS 114 Notes on Care of Guns During Prolonged Bombardments Mar 1917

Archives New Zealand: https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428767

 

SS 115 Notes on Mining (translated from the French)

Army War College, Notes on Recent Operations No 3 http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich (presumptive reprint, this volume contains several items that are reprints of British and French documents)

SS 116 Notes on cover against shell fire : with special reference to 5.9 in. shells Dec 1916

Hathitrust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002028911 (presumptive reprint of Dec 1916 document)

SS 117 Summary of the French Instructions for Higher Formations in the Attack (“Instruction sur le combat offensif des grandes unites”)

Hathitrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001526898

(reprint from British document as per title page, no pamphlet or imprint markings)

 

SS 118 Instructions regarding the use of shells filled with lethal chemicals

WO 95/1097/6  http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14016484

 

SS 121 Signals between Aeroplanes and Artillery

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/858880/signals-between-aeroplanes-and-artillery/

 

SS 122 Some Notes on Lewis Guns and Machine Guns

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/1916-uk-ss-122/mode/2up

SLV http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/110478

 

SS 124 Notes for Artillery Officers on Shoots with Aeroplane Observation

Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library

https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/89  ([presumptive reprint)

 

SS 126 The Training and Employment of Bombers Sep 1916

Archive.org https://ia802905.us.archive.org/2/items/trainingemployme00unitrich/trainingemployme00unitrich.pdf

Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library

https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/72/rec/1

(presumptive reprints of British pamphlet by United States Army)

SS 127 Drills with small box-respirators

TNA WO 95/2685/1              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7354504

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Thank you for all these links. Helpful to have them documented.

 

Cheers

Maureen

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SS 132-139/7

 

SS 132 Conventional Signs for use with Artillery Maps Revised Edition Feb 1918

TNA WO 95/2650/1 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7354426

SS 133 Scheme of Colours to Indicate different natures of Ordnance on Maps Illustrating Artillery bombardment

AWM Papers of John Monash https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1422849

SS 135 Instructions for the Training of Divisions for Offensive Action Dec 1916

Hathi Trust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001526861

(United States Army reprint of document minus imprint and header information)

SS 135 The Division in Attack Nov 1918

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/1918-uk-ss-135-j-the-division-in-attack/mode/2up

SS 139/3 Artillery Notes. No. 3 - Counter-Battery Work Feb 1917

Field Artillery Notes, edited by the Army War College (USA) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001720962 (United States Army reprint)

SS 139/3 Artillery Notes. No. 3 - Counter-Battery Work Feb 1918

Marble Thesis, appendix 31 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app31.html

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/168/rec/7

SS 139/4 Artillery Notes. No. 4 - Artillery in Offensive Operations Feb 1917

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/86/rec/2 (United States Army Reprint)

SS 139/6 Artillery Notes. No. 6. - Trench Mortars Mar 1917

Ike Skelton Library http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll9/id/89

SS 139/7 Artillery Notes. No. 7. - Artillery in Defensive Operations Feb 1918

Marble Thesis, Appendix 32 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app32.html

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SS 142 - 160

 

SS 142 Provisional Notes on Firing at Aircraft with Machine Guns and other Small arms

Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbsa-uk/albums/72157714651256151

 

SS 143 Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action 1917

Lawrence Ordnance https://www.lawranceordnance.com/default/blog/post/training_platoons_1917

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/instructionsfort00washrich/page/n1/mode/2up

 

SS 148 Forward Inter-communication in Battle (provisional)

Hathitrust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002028990 (presumptive reprint by United States Army)

 

SS 149 Notes on Meteorological Telegrams to the Artillery

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/89 (presumptive reprint by United States Army)

 

SS 151 Information from Captured Documents

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/71 (presumptive reprint by United States Army)

 

SS 152  Instructions for the Training of the British Armies in France (Provisional)  1917

Australian Army History website https://www.army.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/instructions_for_the_training_of_the_british_armies_in_france_1917_uk_0.pdf

 

SS 152  Instructions for the Training of the British Armies in France (Provisional)  1917

Australian Army History website https://www.army.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/instructions_for_the_training_of_the_british_armies_in_france_1918_uk_0.pdf

 

SS 153 Notes on the '08 (Heavy) and '08/'15 (Light) German machine guns

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll7/id/817

 

SS 157 Report on the Overseas Artillery School, Salisbury Plain

Marble Thesis, appendix 20 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app20.html

 

SS 158 Notes on Recent Operations on the Front of First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Armies

AWM4 26/80/5 - December 1917 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1354219

 

SS 159 Notes on Tactical Schemes, Compiled by Fourth Army

AWM Durrant Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2641786

 

SS 160 Experiences of a Division in Recent fighting

AWM Monash Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG0000620

 

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SS 161 - 195

 

SS 161 Instructions for Battle

Warwick University collections: https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/3439/rec/1

SS 162 Notes on Identification of Aeroplanes

AWM: Annand Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2147725

Hathitrust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100152511 (reprint issued by Signal Corps, United States Army, includes cover page for SS 162 with pamphlet number and O.B. number)

SS 163 Hints on Reconnaissance for Mines and Land mines in the area evacuated by the Germans

SS 166 Instructions for the demolition of Hostile Guns with 3" Stokes T.M. Bomb and special slow Fuze

SS 169 Employment of 3" Stokes Mortars in recent fighting

SS 172 Preliminary Notes on Recent Operations on the front of Second Army

SS 173 Notes on Screens (provisional)

SS 174 Notes on Communications during Recent Operations in Front of Second Army

SS 175 Notes on the use of Smoke Jul 1917

All  are presumptive reprints in Notes on Recent Operations, No. 3” edited by the Army War College (United States). Available at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

SS 164 Notes on the use of tanks and on the general principles of their employment as an adjunct to the infantry attack. (issued with special reference to the "Mark IV", 1917, pattern)

UK MOD https://www.da.mod.uk/Portals/0/Documents/JSCSC%20Library%20Archives/First%20World%20War%20British%20Tank%20Doctrine/S.S_164.pdf

SS 167 Signal Organisation for heavy branch machine gun Corps

Warwick University collections: https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/3449/rec/4

SS 168 Notes on the Employment of Serviceable Guns and Trench Mortars captured from the Enemy

Ike Skelton Library http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll9/id/89 (presumptive reprint in edited volume published by United States Army)

SS 170 Notes on Co-operation between Aircraft and Artillery during recent operations on the Second Army Front

Warwick University collections: https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/GRA/3/4

SS 177 Instructions on Wiring Aug 1917

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/instructionsonwi00unitrich (presumptive reprint, appears correct based on actual SS 177 o/h)

SS 184 Gas Warfare Monthly Summary of Information Nos 1-16

Found spread through the war diaries for the Assistant Director Gas Services

WO 95/61/6 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/b45dd2c7b55743c19dd50221813e1daf

WO 95/61/7 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/8ec3d00809404ab987a465b75802bbb8

WO 95/62/1 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4693c8f339574e648dc92c3f67a549ee

WO 95/62/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4a24324984904c7eaac46465870be078

WO 95/62/3 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/915ccaae8bab40be9c3daa9cafee45f3

WO 95/62/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/dbfdf96ec4f64f63bacfbcc532c768c1

WO 95/62/5 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/b141612bc5ea468bb93f50b39fe13b51

 

SS 185 Assault Training

Australian Army History Website https://www.army.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/assault_training-general_staff_1917_0.pdf

SS 186 Anti-Aircraft gunnery (provisional)

Ordnance Society Blog https://ordnancesociety.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/aa-gunnery-sep-1917.pdf

(includes amendments)

SS 188 Offence versus Defence in the Air

Australian Army History website https://www.army.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/offense_versus_defence_in_the_air_1917_0.pdf

SS 192 The Employment of Machine Guns. Part I Tactical

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/1918-uk-ss-192-part-1

SS 192 The Employment of Machine guns. Part II Organization and Direction of Fire

Arhive.org https://archive.org/details/1918-uk-ss-192-part-2

SS 193 Standing Orders for Defence against Gas

State Library New South Wales http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110369303

SS 195 Scouting and Patrolling

Lawrance Ordnance Blog https://www.lawranceordnance.com/skin/frontend/default/theme650/images/manuals/scouting_patrolling_1917.pdf

Hathitrust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100360143

 

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SS 201-221

SS 201 Tactical Summary of Machine Gun Operations. No. 1 October 1917

Ike Skelton Library: included in Machine Gun Notes No 2. https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/145/rec/1 (presumptive reprint)

SS 203 Instructions for Anti-Tank Defence (Provisional)

UK MOD https://www.da.mod.uk/news/First-World-War-British-Tank-Doctrine-SS203

Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FaAtAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Instructions+for+Anti-Tank+Defence%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s

SS 204 Infantry and Tank Co-operation and Training

UK MOD https://www.da.mod.uk/Portals/0/Documents/JSCSC%20Library%20Archives/First%20World%20War%20British%20Tank%20Doctrine/S.S_204.pdf

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/infantryandtank_coop/mode/2up (presumptive reprint by United States Army)

SS 212 Yellow Cross Gas Shells and the measures to be taken to counteract their effects

TNA WO 95/62/1 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4693c8f339574e648dc92c3f67a549ee

SS 218 Operations by the Australian Corps against Hamel, Bois de Hamel, and Bois de Vaire. 4th of July 1918

Monash Papers AWM https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1422767

SS 221 Machine gun training. Part 1

Archive.org https://ia801407.us.archive.org/8/items/1919-uk-machine-gun-training/1919-UK-MachineGunTraining.pdf

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CDS/SS 306 -350

 

SS 306 Notes on German Fuzes and Typical French and Belgian Fuzes (Second Edition)

Bulletpicker: https://bulletpicker.com/pdf/Notes%20on%20German%20Fuzes.pdf

Hathitrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006542005

Ike Skelton Library: https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll7/id/429/rec/1 (all appear to be the same base file)

CDS 307 Defensive Measures against Gas Attacks Nov 1915

Wellcome Library https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b20159997

CDS 313 Field Almanac 1917

Veteran's History Project https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.01745/pageturner?ID=pm0162001

CDS 315 Notes on war diaries

TNA WO 95/1906/1 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C14017565

SS 332 Memorandum regarding recommendations for honours despatch

AWM Monash Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1422833

SS 332A Amendments etc, to memorandum regarding recommendations for honours despatch, issued 17th December 1915, No. C.D.S. 332.

AWM Monash Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1422837

CDS 341 Notes on Recent Signalling Experience at the Front

TNA WO 95/2557/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055071

CDS 335 Instructions for mounting, operating and care of the West Spring Gun

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/6195 (presumptive, as not marked by CDS #)

CDS 345 Memorandum on the treatment of injuries in war, based on experience in the present campaign

Hathitrust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009024012

SS 350 Silhouettes of Aeroplanes and Airships

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/SilhouettesOfAeroplanesAndAirships

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CDS 352 Water supply. Tournai sheet. 1/100,000 map Sep 1915

Wellcome Library https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18439809

SS 355 The German Forces in the Field 6th Revision

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/cu31924027944838

SS 356 Handbook of the German Army in War. January 1917.

British Library http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003075164.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1988%2C-143%2C6064%2C2843

SS 356 Handbook of the German Army in War. April 1918.

Hathitrust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100684972

Hathitrust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009013105

SS 356 Handbook of the German Army in War. November 1918.

British Library http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100009749073.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-2054%2C-146%2C6226%2C2918

CDS 366 Notes on the duties of D.A.D.R.T.s. and R.T.Os. at Bases, Railway Junctions, Railheads and Detraining stations [Deputy Assistant Directors Railway Transport] [Railway Transport Officer's]

TNA WO 95/64/1 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/fe45dd8e5744499882556f8ed535558e

CDS 367 How a soldier should get his Pay

Bristol Museum http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/details.php?irn=163522

SS 369 Instructions relating to Pay Duties of Officers Commanding Squadrons, Batteries, Companies, &c (revised for the period of the war) Jun 1918

State Library Victoria http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/110823

SS 370 Separation Allowance for Wives and Children of Soldiers 1915  

SS 371 Separation Allowance for Dependents of Soldiers 1915

National Archives of Australia https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8273531

SS 370 Separation Allowance for Wives and Children of Soldiers 1917

SS 371 Separation Allowance for Dependents of Soldiers 1917

AWM27 367/11 - [Pay and Allowances:] Separation allowance for wives and children of soldiers (Dec 1917)  https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2760341

SS 373 Instructions for requisitioning and billeting in France and Belgium, issued with GRO 684, 28th February, 1915

TNA WO 95/27/11 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/850361e9d69e46e39cd95fdaf2109089

SS 374 Instructions regarding the procedure to be adopted for settlement of accounts between British and French Governments for all transfers of stores

TNA WO 95/3958/5 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/8a76f4568d664264842143af1d2dba85

SS 379 Short vocabulary of French Words and Phrases with English Pronunciation

State Library Victoria http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/110849

SS 381 Collection of Information regarding the Enemy

Royal Artillery Museum Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/RoyalArtilleryArchive/photos/a.1767237873602172/2980463912279556/?type=3

CDS 385 The new German field service uniform

Gentleman's Military Interest Club https://gmic.co.uk/topic/43917-34the-new-german-field-service-uniform34/  (low quality scan)

CDS 388 Defensive measures against gas attacks [imprint Feb 1916)

AWM Durrant Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2641778

SS 388 Defensive measures against gas attacks

Wellcome Library https://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1537773

SS 397 Explanatory list of service markings to be found on Ammunition and Ammunition packages in use with the field armies Aug 1918

Bulletpicker https://bulletpicker.com/pdf/Explanatory%20List%20of%20Service%20Markings.pdf

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AR

Thank you for these very valuable titles and especially for the links - A really great resource that you are putting together. :-)

:-) M

Posted

SS 405 - 450

 

SS 405 Notes on German Artillery Emplacements, 1915

Hathitrust, Field Artillery Notes No 1 (presumptive) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001720962

SS 406 Precautions Necessary when firing rifle Grenades

Oxford Great War Archive              http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/4152

SS 407 Composition of the Headquarters of the forces in the Field (France) Jun 1916

SS 407 Composition of Headquarters. British Armies in France Jun 1917 and Nov 1918

British Library Hunter-Weston Papers http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_48362

SS 408 Some of the many questions a Platoon Commander should ask himself on taking over a Trench, and at intervals afterwards

Great War Forum, posted by themonsstar https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/263785-some-of-the-many-questions-a-platoon-commander-should-ask-himself-on-taking-over-a-trench/

SS 412 Circular Memorandum on courts-Martial for the use of convening and staff officers, and of officers giving instruction on this subject

National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2027171 (Australian reprint)

SS 412B Circular Memorandum on courts-Martial for use on Active Service August 1918

Reproduced in Establishment of Military Justice. Hearings before a subcommitte of the Committee of Military Affairs. United States Senate. Starts Page 410 (presumptive) https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ixgnl48aq6sC

SS 415 The Duties of an Officer. Knowledge and Character

AWM Monash Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1422857

SS 419 Defensive Measures Against Gas Attacks May 1916

WO 95/1917/2              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14053578 (also contains SS 419 Supplement)

Canadiana https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.80570/1?r=0&s=1 (missing cover page)

State Library New South Wales http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110369142

SS 419 Supplement Protection against Tear Shell Attacks

AWM Durrant Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2641778

WO 95/1917/2              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14053578 (also contains SS 419)

SS 419B Instructions regarding protection against a new type of gas shell

TNA WO 95/3036 (both 3036/1 and 3036/2) http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4556187

SS 420 Notes on German Shells

First Edition May 1916 Bulletpicker https://bulletpicker.com/pdf/Notes%20on%20German%20Shells%201916.pdf

Second Edition May 1918 Bulletpicker

https://bulletpicker.com/pdf/Notes%20on%20German%20Shells%201918.pdf

SS 432 Methods of laying machine guns in the direction of invisible targets by means of map, compass, and traversing dial

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/142/rec/3 (presumptive reprint by United States Army)

SS 438 Naval and Military Despatches Part IV (Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatch of 11th December, 1915)

AWM Misc. Papers Lord Birdwood https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2084683

SS 441 Notes on the prevention of espionage and leakage of information

TNA WO 95/1917/3              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14053579

SS 448 Method of instruction in the Lewis gun Jun 1917

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/142/rec/3 (presumptive reprint by United States Army)

SS 450 Regulations for Machine-Gun Officers and Non-commissioned officers

TNA WO 95/1427/4 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C14052996

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SS 452 - 491

 

SS 452 Memorandum on Gas Poisoning in Warfare with notes on its pathology and treatment Apr 1918

AWM4 26/17/6 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1340123

 

SS 453 Notes on German Gas Shells

AWM Durrant Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2641778

Army.gov.au https://www.army.gov.au/our-heritage/history/primary-materials/1914-1918-world-war-one

 

SS 454 Experiences Gained from the September Offensives on the Fronts of the Sixth and Third Armies

Archive.org in German and Austrian Tactical Studies https://archive.org/details/germanaustrianta00germiala (German and Austrian Tactical Studies has many documents that are presumptive reprints of SS pamphlets)

 

SS 456 Burial of Soldiers

TNA WO 95/3036/2               http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C7355301

 

SS 457 Formation of Prisoner of War Companies. Provisional Orders and Instructions Jul 1916

TNA WO 95/31/3 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/0f0707639d7c4443b27469c1c396700b

 

SS 459 Flammenwerfer

Portugal Defence Libraries (Portugal) http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!248965~!0 (text chopped off on bottom of page)

SS 460 German Mining Officer’s Diary, captured at Fricourt, July 1916

AWM4 16/4/2 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1345746

 

SS 464 The employment and duties of the artillery flights in trench warfare

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/89 (presumptive reprint)

 

SS 465 German Mining Officer's Diary Captured at Fricourt, July, 1916

AWM4 16/4/2 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1345746

 

SS 466 Conclusions drawn from the study of raids carried out by the British

TNA WO 95/3033/2               https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14056104

 

SS 470 Reports on Officers for inefficiency

Sep 1916 WO 95/3058/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14056184

Jun 1918 AWM Monash Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1422881

 

SS 471 Essential Principles for the Defence of Positions as laid down in Instructions Issued by G.H.Q.

WO-95-3033/2              https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14056104

 

SS 472 Experiences of the Fighting South of the Somme from 23rd June to 5th July, 1916

Archives New Zealand (ANZ) https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428421

 

SS 476 Instructions for the care and preservation of Ammunition and Explosives in the Field

TNA WO 95 32/3 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/1b903ca0c3664855b524ab89f2ee19ca

 

SS 477 Memorandum regarding Recommendations for Honours and Rewards Sep 1916

TNA WO 95/3058/2              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14056184

AWM27 368/13 - [Honours and Awards:] General Headquarters memorandum regarding recommendations for honours and rewards (Sep 1916) https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2703829

SS 477 Instructions regarding recommendations for honours and rewards Sep 1918

AWM27 368/12 - [Honours and Awards:] General Headquarters Instructions regarding recommendations for honours and rewards (Sep 1918) https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2703828

 

SS 478 Experiences of the IV. German Corps in the Battle of the Somme During July, 1916

German and Austrian Tactical Studies, via Archive.org (presumptive) https://archive.org/details/germanaustrianta00germiala

 

SS 480 Lessons Drawn from the Battle of the Somme by Stein’s Group

German and Austrian Tactical Studies, via Archive.org (presumptive) https://archive.org/details/germanaustrianta00germiala

 

SS 487 Order of the 6th Bavarian Division Regarding Machine Guns

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205039~!0

 

SS 489 Particulars of German Weapons for the close combat

TNA WO 95/3033/2              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14056104

ANZ https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428414

 

SS 490 The Principles of Trench Warfare as laid down in the XIV Reserve Corps 19th May, 1916

Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC) via Archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

 

SS 491 The Construction of Field Defences

ANZ https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428416

Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC) via Archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

Posted

SS 503 - 537

 

SS 503 Instructions for the use of 4.5-in Howitzer Smoke Shell May 1917

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205105~!0

(? Revised version as not updated in SS 390 Mar 1918 catalogue)

SS 505 Instructions for the use of 4.5-inch, Howitzer, Q.F., Incendiary Shell Jun 1917

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205104~!0

(? Revised version as not updated in SS 390 Mar 1918 catalogue)

SS 507 Fuze No. 106

AWM27 381/10 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2760338

SS 507A Fuze, Percussion, No. 106,  Mark II

AWM27 381/14 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2760339

SS 512 Barrage fire

Archives New Zealand https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428418

SS 517 Notes on the Refitting of a Division when withdrawn from the Line

A History Of The Army Ordnance Services, Appendix 4 available at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 (presumptive reprint as not marked as pamphlet)

SS 521 Instructions for Firing with "Green-Cross" (Gas) Shell from Light Field Howitzers on the area north of Artillery Ravine and Mametz Wood

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205091~!0

 

SS 525 Protection of small box respirators against wet

TNA WO 95/2491/3 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14054959 (? Retyped version of pamphlet as has number on upper left corner)

 

SS 526 German Cylinder Hand Grenade with Handle (Percussion)

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209782~!0

 

SS 531 German Instructions for the Employment of Flame Projectors

Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC), via Archive.org (presumptive reprint) http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

 

SS 533 Silhouettes of Aeroplanes

Durrant Papers AWM https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2641766 (presumptive copy as not numbered)

 

SS 535 Gas Defence

Imprint 12/16 State Library NSW http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110349804

Imprint 3/17 The Long, long trail https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/instructions-defence-poison-gas/  

 

SS 536 Report on the Defence of Gommecourt on the 1st July 1916

WO 95/2931/3              https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14055965

 

SS 537 Summary of Recent Information Regarding the German Army and its methods

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/summaryofrecenti00grearich

 

Posted

SS 540 - 599

 

SS 540 Instructions for Mine Warfare. Tactics.

Archives New Zealand https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428415

Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC), via Archive.org (presumptive reprint) http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

SS 546 The 1916 Pattern Bomb-Thrower ("Granaten-werfer 16") for Stick Bomb ("Wurfgranate") 1915

Great War Forum, post by Mark Holden https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/278256-original-publication-ss-546-1916-pattern-bomb-thrower-granaten-werfer-16/?tab=comments#comment-2841807

SS 550 Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs Mar 1917

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll7/id/912

SS 550A Illustrations to accompany Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs (Series A)

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/342

SS 552 Sound Ranging

Defence Surveyors' Association https://fc061d25-33f8-4c65-840c-8ca5bf36650e.filesusr.com/ugd/b9208c_5609ead5ecb04d8492219615b41612fb.pdf

SS 553 Experience of the German 1st Army in the Somme Battle by General Von Below

Ike Skelton Library Notes on Recent Operations July 1917 (presumptive reprint) http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll9/id/71

SS 554 Trains moving with Troops. Standing Orders for the Officer Commanding Train

TNA WO 95/1908/1              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7352751

SS 555 Vocabulary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations (First Ed. 1917)

Hathitrust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001036644

SS 557 Supplementary Instructions as to the Construction of Defences

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205092~!0

Ike Skelton Library (presumptive reprint) in Notes on Recent operations July 1917 http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll9/id/71

SS 559 Diagram showing the organization and defences of a divisional sector (from a German document captured in April 1917)

AWM Monash Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1422851

Warwick University collections https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/3481/rec/2

SS 560 Manual of Position Warfare for All Arms. Part 5. The Employment and Duties of Artillery Aeroplanes in Position Warfare

Ike Skelton Library Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC) (presumptive reprint) http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

SS 561 Extracts "B" from a German Document entitled Principles of Command in the Defensive Battle in Position Warfare

Ike Skelton Library Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC) (presumptive reprint) http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

SS 562 Manual of Position Warfare for All Arms. Part 3. Weapons of Close Combat ("Nahkamphfmittel").

Warwick University Collections https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/3489/

SS 562B Extracts "B" from a German Document entitled Weapons of Close Combat (1st January, 1917.) Destruction of obstacles

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205045~!0 (? All of document as archival site states 2 pages)

SS 563 Manual of Position Warfare for All Arms Part 6 Communication between Infantry and Aeroplanes or Captive Balloons

Ike Skelton Library Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC) (presumptive reprint) http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

SS 566 German automatic-lighting Stick Grenade (time)

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209783~!0

SS 567 Diagram Showing the Organization of a Regimental Sector (From a German Document captured in June, 1917)

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205094~!0

SS 569 Signal-thrower : "Signalwerfer" or "Nachrichtenwerfer"

Warwick University Collections  https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/3490/rec/5

SS 571 Ration pamphlet. Scales of rations, forage, fuel and light as authorised for the British Armies in France

Museums Victoria https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/381887

SS 580 Notes on What Can Be Done by Our Batteries to Avoid Detection by Enemy Sound Ranging

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209796~!0

SS 584 Notes on the Ammunition for Q.F. 13-Pr., Q.F. 18-pr Horse and Field Equipment (Ordnance College, 3rd Edition)

RNZAOC  Blog    https://rnzaoc.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/38628183-british-notes-on-the-ammunition-for-qf-13pr-and-qf-18pr-horse-and-field-equipment-1917.pdf

SS 587 Pack Equipment Pattern, 1917 for Hotchkiss Machine Gun (Cavalry)

HBSA Assn https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbsa-uk/albums/72157714451299266

SS 591 Fighting in the Air 1917

The war in the air; being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Vol III Appendix via archive.org (presumptive) https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale/mode/2up

SS 592 Catechism for Heavy and Siege Artillery Subalterns

Marble Thesis, appendix 24 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/archive/app24.html

SS 593 The Grid Plotter

Ike Skelton Library, Field Artillery Notes No. 7 (presumptive) https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/89

SS 598 Notes and Rules for barrage fire with Machine Guns

Ike Skelton Library Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC) (presumptive reprint) http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

SS 599 Notes on the Technical Reconnaissance of an Artillery Position and the Training of the Headquarters of a Battery Jun 1917

Ike Skelton Library, Field Artillery Notes 4 (presumptive) https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/87/rec/1

 

Posted

SS 600 - 650

 

SS 600 The Organization of an Infantry Battalion and the Normal Formation for the Attack

Archives New Zealand https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428780

Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC), via Archive.org (presumptive reprint) http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

 

SS 601 Supplement (Provisional) to Instructions issued on 8th January 1916 on the Offensive of Small Units

Ike Skelton Library (reprint of a ? Official pamphlet) https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll9/id/259

SS 602 Questions a platoon commander should ask himself before an attack and when the objective has been gained

Great War Forum, posted by Themonsstar

 https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/263784-questions-a-platoon-commander-should-ask-himself-before-an-attack/

Utulsa WWI exhibits http://orgs.utulsa.edu/wwi-exhibit/items/show/28

SS 603 Tank Coloured Disc and Light Code (2nd Edition)

Great War Forum, posted by johnreed

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/145090-tank-signalling-discs/

 

UK MOD https://www.da.mod.uk/news/Tank-Coloured-Disc-and-Light-Code

SS 607 Directions for the use of Anti-Gas Horse Respirator

AWM4 13/75/24 - March 1918 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1355254

Notes on Recent Operations No 3 (AWC), via Archive.org (presumptive reprint) http://www.archive.org/details/warcollegeops00armyrich

SS 609 Text book of aerial gunnery

Archive.org https://archive.org/details/1917-uk-text-book-of-aerial-gunnery

SS 611 Precautions against Fire Nov 1917

TNA WO 95/2409/4              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14084796

SS 616 Instructions for fixing Rubber fuze-covers to time fuzes and time and percussion fuzes, and for the use of fuze-waterproofing composition

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205114~!0

SS 617 Courts of Inquiry

AWM27 363/28 - [Discipline:] Army circulars relating to courts martial, desertion and absence without leave, training and discipline, courts of inquiry (Dec 1914 - Sep 1918) https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2674592

SS 620 Box Respirator Drill and Inspection

Australian Army website, contained in item “Instructions for Gas Alert and Action during a Gas Attack”

 https://www.army.gov.au/our-heritage/history/primary-materials/1914-1918-world-war-one

SS 621 Manual of Position Warfare for all Arms. Part 1a: General Principles of the Construction of Field Positions. (3rd edition 5th August, 1917)

Archives New Zealand https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428402

SS 625 Tape Release for Magazine Catch

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209793~!0

 

SS 628 Types of German Gas Shell and Labels on Shell Baskets

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205121~!0

SS 630B Discipline of Coloured Labour Units. Chinese Labour Corps

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205113~!0

SS 631A Illustrations to accompany Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs [3rd Edition] (Series A)

National Archives of Australia https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4039779

SS 632 New German Rifle Grenade

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209784~!0

SS 634 German Streamline H.E. Field Gun Shell

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205090~!0

SS 636 Example of the organization of a German supporting point which it is endeavoured to conceal until required for use

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!204601~!0

SS 639 Photograph - Appearance of Tanks from the Air

Twitter via Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/503066220860793056/ (I have been unable to find original IWM tweet or the photo on their website)

SS 646 Notes on Horse Management in the Field

Australian Army website 1917 version https://www.army.gov.au/our-heritage/history/primary-materials/1914-1918-world-war-one

National WWI Museum, 1918 version https://theworldwar.pastperfectonline.com/archive/518F9300-B418-4C94-9F68-219236146200

SS 650 German Tank. Sketch of tank used at Villers-Bretonneux on 24th April, 1918

Great War Forum, posted by Mark Holden https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/278255-original-may-1918-sketches-german-tank/ (SS 714 is posted in same thread)

UK MOD https://www.da.mod.uk/publications/First-World-War-British-Tank-Doctrine-SS-650

 

Posted

SS 702 - 729

 

SS 702 Yukon Pack. Instructions for Use

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209795~!0

SS 703 Manual of Position Warfare for All Arms: Special Part: The Experience Gained during the English-French Offensive in the Spring of 1917

German and Austrian Tactical Studies, via Archive.org (presumptive) https://archive.org/details/germanaustrianta00germiala

SS 705 Mark VII Ground Sheet. Combined Ground Sheet and Mackintosh Cape.

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209794~!0

TNA WO 95/59/4

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/9db816f84c77478382c4bbe843e9d45c

SS 706 Extracts No. 11 from German Documents and Correspondence

RAMC ADMS, 47th (London) Division, France 1917-1919              https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19446603

SS  707 The Employment of Machine Guns in Trench Warfare

Archives New Zealand https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428403

SS 709 German Message Shell

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!248963~!0

SS 711 Gas Bombardments

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205103~!0

SS 714 The German Tank "Elfriede."

Great War Forum, posted by Mark Holden https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/278255-original-may-1918-sketches-german-tank/ (SS 650 is posted in same thread)

UK MOD https://www.da.mod.uk/publications/First-World-War-British-Tank-Doctrine-SS-714

SS 715 German system of squaring maps

Defence Surveyors Association, Notes on Sound Ranging

https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers

SS 719 German instructions regarding the diagnosis and treatment of gas poisoning. (From the standpoint of January 1918)

TNA WO 95/62/2 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4a24324984904c7eaac46465870be078

SS 721 The Light "Minenwerfer" on Flat-Trajectory Carriage

Ordnance Society              https://ordnancesociety.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/original-ww1-british-document-describing-the-german-light-minenwerfer-trench-mortar.pdf

SS 729 Information Given by German Prisoners

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205102~!0

 

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SS 732 - 768

SS 732 The 1917 German Long Delay Action Fuze for Demolition Purposes

TNA WO 95/1493/5              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14016989

SS 733 German Automatic Detonating Device

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!209780~!0

TNA WO 95/1493/5              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14016989

SS 734 German Traps and Mines

TNA WO 95/1493/5              http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14016989

Truman Library https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/truman-papers/world-war-i-1918-1919/field-orders-and-reports-november-december-1918?documentid=16&pagenumber=1

SS 735 Translations of Captured German Documents

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205101~!0

SS 737 Instructions and Rules of guidance for the conduct of every German soldier who is taken prisoner

Presumptive reprint in O'Ryan The story of the 27th division (Vol II) pp 663-666 http://www.archive.org/details/storyof27thdivis02oryauoft

SS 738 Manual of Position Warfare for all Arms. Part 12. Employment of Battle Flights (20th February, 1918.)

Jones War in the Air, Volume IV, appendix XII https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale

SS 739 Captured German Guns. No. 1

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205099~!0

SS 742, SS 742/2 and SS 742/3 Photographs of German Guns. Serials 1-3

Truman Library https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/truman-papers/world-war-i-1918-1919/field-orders-and-reports-september-1918?documentid=5&pagenumber=1

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/truman-papers/world-war-i-1918-1919/field-orders-and-reports-september-1918?documentid=26&pagenumber=1

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/truman-papers/world-war-i-1918-1919/field-orders-and-reports-september-1918?documentid=22&pagenumber=1

 

SS 745 Description of the Siegfried* Line. (Issued by Second German in the Spring of 1917.)

AWM Papers of Joseph John Talbot Hobbs https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2628796

SS 748 Manual of Position Warfare for All Arms: Part 14 (provisional). The attack in Position warfare. 1st January, 1918. (With amendments dated 26-1-18 and 27-7-18)

Ike Skelton Library https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll7/id/828

SS 755 Instructions for the Recovery of Solder from Empty Meat Tins

Portugal http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205107~!0

SS 767 Text of Conditions of Armistice with Turkey

SS 768 Terms of the Armistice concluded by the Allied Powers and the United States with Austria-Hungary

AWM Monash Papers https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG0000638

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Another good source of SS pamphlets is from Digital History Archive, operated by Marc Romanych. The particular collections that have SS pamphlets are German Weapons & Tactics 1916-18, The German View of the Western Front 1916-18 and
British Military Operations in France 1917-18 and a few in US Army Division & Higher Formation Operations Manuals 1916-18. http://www.digitalhistoryarchive.com/wwi-documents--photos.html

Disclaimer. I am in no way affiliated with Marc or his website and have no financial interests in directing traffic to him. I have bought several of his products and have found them to be good value.

 

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These two were just uploaded to the Australian War Memorial Website

 

CDS 16 Notes on Signal Communication within a Division when holding a defensive line

AWM27 311/32 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2764068

 

SS 561 Manual of Position Warfare for All Arms. Part 8. The Principles of Command in the Defensive Battle in Position Warfare. 1st March, 1917

 

AWM27 111/9 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2764065

 

The AWM appears to be making selected copies of their official record series (at least AWM25 and AWM27) available online for files that patrons have paid to digitize. These two files were an order I placed in December, and some of other order items have also been uploaded for the public, but not all...I'm not sure of the decision process as to what is uploaded and what is not.

 

AWM's holdings of the AWM25, AWM26 and AWM27 series can be searched for at https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search and found under the heading "digitised collection"

 

AWM25, AWM26 and AWM27 files are records created by the Australian War Memorial after the First World War to facilitate writing Australia's official history. They are contained in National Archives of Australia catalogue, but held at the AWM.  More information can be found on each series at the NAA recordsearch portal by isolating the series https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx

 

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SS 488 German Land Mines.

AWM4 16/2/21 WD First Australian Tunnelling Company September 18.

 

SS 643A Notes on The Disguise of Signal Traffic ( Translation of a German Document).

AWM25 425/59

 

Apologies for not inserting links

 

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4 more just uploaded to the AWM site

 

SS 562B Extracts "B" from a German Document entitled Weapons of Close Combat (1st January, 1917.) Destruction of obstacles May 1917

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2785037

 

SS 103 Orders regarding sending Messages within 1,500 yards of the Firing Line Apr 1916

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2785036

 

SS 570 Arrangements for Reporting the Approach of Aircraft. Orders for the aeroplane observation posts and aeroplane report centres of the Seventh German Army.  (Abbreviated Translation, from the French, of a German document) Aug 1917

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2785035

 

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205008~!0

[cover page with Different imprint]

 

SS 461 [Presumptive retyped copy] Extracts from the Old Mining Regulations. Issued by the General of Pioneers, Army Headquarters, Laon, April, 1915.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2785034

http://bibliotecas.defesa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=bdn&uri=full=3100024~!205009~!0 [cover page of Pamphlet]

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