Article - "Great War British & Empire Sniping Equipment" by Roger Payne

[CINDERS]

I'd be interested in a copy Chosen.

[Ovidio]

So the most precise translation would be "sharpshooter"?

Another term; "sharp shooter", was in use in British newspapers as early as 1801. In the Edinburgh Advertiser, 23 June 1801, can be found the following quote in a piece about the North British Militia; "This Regiment has several Field Pieces, and two companies of Sharp Shooters, which are very necessary in the modern "Stile of War". The term appears even earlier, around 1781, in Continental Europe, translated from the German Scharfschütze

Yes. Scharfschütze means exactly that. Sharp = scharf in practically every use you can make of that term in the German and English languages. Sharp edge, sharp mind, you can translate that in German as scharfe Klinge and scharfes Gehirn (or, better, Verstand). Germans use "scharf" also for spicy though. Shooter and Schütze are also practically synonyms.

[Roger Payne]

Steve,
You can put me down for a couple of copies.........& I'm sure I'll be able to move on more for you. It has all the makings of the new 'The British Sniper' & I'm really looking forward to the finished tome!