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I understand that Colonel Lloyd (even whilst serving as an ADMS or DDMS in X Corps, ran a highly-regarded School for the Instruction of Infantry Officers and NCOs in the use of telescopic sights as used for sniping. See Major Hesketh Pritchard's 'Sniping in France' pp. 11-12 (Reprint version by Helion) "One day I received orders from Army Headquarters telling me that Colonel Langford Lloyd, D.S.O., had now started a telescopic-sight school in the 10th Corps area, and ordering me to go there and to collaborate with Colonel Lloyd in a book upon sniping and telescopic sights. I went and found a splendid school running, in which the instruction in telescopic sights was rapidly correcting these rifles in the 10th Corps." and the Diary of John Bruce Cairnie for 4-6 November 1915 "We started the course at 9 this morning, beginning with a lecture by the sergeant and then onto the range. At night had a lecture of 2 hours from Col Lloyd RAMC on optics, etc. as applied in telescopes, etc. He is DDMS* but has evidently shot a lot at Bisley and probably big game too. He is keen on the subject anyway, although it is outside his ordinary work. "
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