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introduction

childhood - railways -
inventions

India - the Mutiny - illness - investigation

bullets - barrels - telescopic
sights - explosive bullets

hollow front bullets -
Volunteers & the NRA -
Sir Henry Halford

rifling - the small-bore rifle

Mitrailleuse - breech-loaders

military rifles - bullet design

the latter years

Memoir

of

William Ellis Metford

William Ellis Metford
From a photograph
taken in 1878

Notes

  1. The greater part of this memoir was written by Major the Hon. T.F.Fremantle.
  2. Published May, 1900.
  3. The original document does not have a contents listing.
  4. It has been broken into sections here for ease of reference.
  5. Thanks to R.F.Gunn for providing the OCR'd text.
  6. Formatting by D.B.Minshall.
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