Item 02: Sydney B. Young war diary, 24 July-14 October 1916 - Page 18

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[Page 18]

pair of opera glasses. In side is a periscopic arrangement so that you are looking through the ends as shown in fig 2. Focussing the object you see it as depicted below

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using the thumbscrew marked x in fig 1 you twist this until the object is perpendicular with its inversion as shown, and the same distance from the thin black line in the middle. The rangefinder is now set and on raising the dial cover marked v in fig 2 the range is shown.

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