Last updated: 23 May 2012
The presentation describes how the British Expeditionary Force, in late 1916 and through 1917, developed counter-battery fire to attack the German’s artillery. It focuses on how the Counter-Battery Staff Office collected intelligence about German batteries using the new technologies of flash spotting and sound ranging and how aircraft and balloons observed for counter-battery artillery.
Geoff Spring’s career was working in Information Technology in the logistics industry. Now his principal hobby is lecturing on the artillery of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War.