Memorandum, Plan of Employment for Artillery, Sector of Sommedieue, with Attached Charts

SECTOR OF SOMIEDIEUE. PLAN OF EMPLOYMENT FOR ARTILLERY Herowith a buttle map 3/20,000 indiosting: Positions of Batteries and P.O's. Observution Posts Barrage Fires and C.P.O's. ORGANIZATION OF COMMAND The Sector is divided into Five (=) sub-seotors of Regiments. With glich Infantry Regiment is conjugated a group of 75s. The L'A.I L. o ,reserve of A.D. in gonnected with the A.C.D.AP#/ (P.C.Moscou). TO each group of 75a/donneot ed the nearest battery of 255a c.s. to co-operate for reprisal fire. will be The Three (3) lub-groupmonteroonstituted as follows: lst. South Sub-groupment: support for sub-sector BOUEE Captaine LE GALL : 3and Battory present position 25th Battory present position and. Center Sub-groupment: aupport for sub-sector DERAMEE Commandant PERIER: 34th Battory presont position 20th Battory present position EX 3rd, North Sub-groupment: support for TAVANNES P.S. Commandant BOURRFAUD 220t Bottory a3rd Battery Approximate limite of the mb-seotors. gouth limit of the sub-soctor BOUFE: Present south lämit Limit batgeen uib-scotors BOUEE and DERAMEE: south aige ofa the wood of ROUVAUX, south edge of ROUVAU X Limit botwoon the sub-sectors and DERAMEE AND TAVANNES: MORAN- VILLE, Road of MOULAINVILLE, aouth eago oi MOULAIN- VILLE. North limit of the qub "sector TAVANNES: Horth limt of the division (See above) ZONE OF ACTION Every group of field artillery has as a normal zone of fire the sone of the Regiment which they are supporting and as eventual sones those of the adjoining Regiments. For the A.L.C.the sone of normal notion which is the - anmo for both batteries, is the sone of the division. In every Battory the receding of the barrages and the C.P.O's into our lines should have been propared in gase the enemy in penetrating them. Besides the groupa observation posts which are permanently occupied overy Battery Commandor should have at his - disposal an observation post whioh coumands a view not only of #/ the enemy but inside our lines and which he ahould occupy or have occupied at the time of the fighting. BARRAGES. Each battery has one normal bazrage and one or several eventual barrages, the priority betgoen these bazzages being granted to the one of the central sub-seotor (from WATRONVILLE to HAUDIOMONT.inolusive). Bosides these barrages (normal and eventual which are ordered by rookets, or foiling this by telephone) concentrations