. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. lf, you are acting carelessly, notalone to the soldier whose salute you haveignored or only carelessly acknowledged,but to the King whose commission youcarry. One other point I would make, and thathas reference to your behaviour in the is expected of you that you will be braveunder all circumstances; but you have alsoto remember that the Government has takena lot of trouble with you, and will be payingyou a much larger salary than it pays to he was gazetted in the glory of print, he atleast went to
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. lf, you are acting carelessly, notalone to the soldier whose salute you haveignored or only carelessly acknowledged,but to the King whose commission youcarry. One other point I would make, and thathas reference to your behaviour in the is expected of you that you will be braveunder all circumstances; but you have alsoto remember that the Government has takena lot of trouble with you, and will be payingyou a much larger salary than it pays to he was gazetted in the glory of print, he atleast went to his new comrades well foundedin wisdom. Between theory and practicethere is a very wide gulf, and the youngofficer might find some difficulty in applyingail the wise sayings which had been instilledinto his mind to the actualities which hefound around him. The consensus of opinion, both inKitcheners Army and in the TerritorialArmy, was that the new officer who hadcome forward was of first-class here it may be said that the Armychiefs had to exercise the very wisest dis-. MAXIM GUN SECTION OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND HUSSARS. the private soldier in order that you shouldcarry out certain duties. Unnecessary ex-posure is not heroic but foolish. Alwaysremember that once you are dead you areno use in the Army. A famous FrenchGeneral of the Napoleonic war spoke of anofficer who had lost his life in a particularlyfoolhardy expedition that he had desertedto heaven. I would like vou to keep thatin your minds. I have given this little condensation of alecture to illustrate the moral training of theyoung aspirant of the officers trainingcorps. When his commission arrived and cretion in granting commissions to tradition of the British Army is thatthe ranker does not inspire confidence. Itis equally true that the British soldier ismore exigent even than his Prussian foe-man in his demand for the well great public schools of England con-tributed almost to their last m
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