68487: Notes for a Short Course of Scouting

Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. Reverse of a page giving information on interactions between scouts and company commanders. |

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Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page details the general Allied strategy for how to defeat Germany.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page is the reverse of the one containing notes on general Allied strategy for how to defeat Germany.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains notes on how to secure and record intelligence information.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. Reverse of a page containing notes on how to obtain and record intelligence information.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page details the interactions of scouts and a made-up company commander detailing information.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. Reverse of a page giving information on interactions between scouts and company commanders.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains notes with information on sources for intelligence, trenches and scouts.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains a projected plan for a scouting program taught by Blunden at the end of April, 1918.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains a syllabus for Edmund's April 1918 course on scouting, observing and sniping.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page shows notes for a 1918 lecture by Blunden on patrols.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page shows notes for a 1918 lecture by Blunden on patrols, particularly near Festubert and Richebourg, and includes a small map.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains a small drawing of a map in red and black ink showing the area around the 'Jerusalem crater', possibly related to Blunden's experiences of patrols at Richebourg.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page shows notes for a 1918 lecture by Blunden on patrols, particularly near Cuinchy and Grandcourt.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains a map related to a patrol near Grandcourt in red and black ink.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page shows notes for a 1918 lecture by Blunden on patrols, specifically near Grandcourt.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page shows an unidentified map in red and black ink, possibly of the line near Grandcourt.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This page contains notes on a patrol near Potijze.
Notebook on various duties and operations related to D Coy, 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex. Notes in Edmund Blunden's hand. He used this book when he was teaching a course for the regiment in 1918. The book contains descriptions of actual patrols and includes related maps. Some of these are dated. This image shows the back cover of the notebook.