Reforms Flashcards
Created Royal Navy reserve
Fisher
Abolished purchase of commissions
Cardwell
Yeomanry and militia treated the same
Haldane
Introduced the Dreadnought
Fisher
Extended naval control of the dockyards
Graham
Abolished bounty money
Cardwell
Created BEF
Haldane
Created short term service
Cardwell
Abolished numbering and introduced regionally named regiments
Childers
Programme of refitting ships
Graham
Abolished peacetime flogging
Cardwell
Created the Officer Training Corps
Haldane
Permanent school of naval gunnery
Graham
Submarines
Fisher
Established the linked battalion system
Cardwell
Abolished the list system of promotion
Graham
Abolished the Naval Office and Victualling Board
Graham
Created the Imperial General Service
Haldane
Selling off old ships
Fisher
Fleets reorganised and reshuffled
Fisher
Rifle used in 1790
Brown Bess
First barrelled rifle in British Army
Baker
Destructive new bullet introduced by the French
Minié
British version of Minié
Enfield
British breech-loading gun of 1860s
Snider-Enfield
German rifle used by Boers
Mauser
Breech-loading artillery used after Crimea
Armstrong
200 bullets a minute gun
Gatling
First British used machine gun without hand cranking
Maxim
WW1 era machine gun
Vickers