. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. HE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS TRINITY COLLEGE IN THE crown above his three stripes is the oldcolour-serjeant. We call him companysergeant-major now, but hes just about thesame as ever. This the recruit learnt at breakfast-time;a breakfast which was surprisingly luxuri-ous, consisting of tea, bread and butter,eggs, and just enough bacon to give breakfast had come mysteriously fromnowhere. Later he was to discover that atthe far end of the camp things had beenmoving since before reveille, and whilst the ba
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. HE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS TRINITY COLLEGE IN THE crown above his three stripes is the oldcolour-serjeant. We call him companysergeant-major now, but hes just about thesame as ever. This the recruit learnt at breakfast-time;a breakfast which was surprisingly luxuri-ous, consisting of tea, bread and butter,eggs, and just enough bacon to give breakfast had come mysteriously fromnowhere. Later he was to discover that atthe far end of the camp things had beenmoving since before reveille, and whilst the battalion had been doing its little constitu-tional, there had been great breakings ofeggs and splutterings of frying bacon,whilst steaming kettles had been bubblingover their wood fires, and the restless cookshad been working at top speed to providea thousand hungry men with their break-fast. Breakfast had hardly finished when thewarning bugle sounded, and the tent orderly—he wfiose duty it was to draw rations andto clean up the tents—had only begun his « Ji Kitchener s A rmy 39. COLLEGES HAVE BEEN)S OF THE MILITARY. work when the blue-coatedfigures fell in again in fourlong lines to answer theirnames and to undergo thetrial of an inspection. Our new recruit at firstwas painfully conscious ofhis awkwardness; how awk-ward he was he did not realiseuntil he found himself in theunenviable position of righthand man of the awkward squad. It was not called the awkward squad; itbore the more euphonious title of the recruits firstsquad; it included a surprising number of men who,unlike himself, perhaps, were not quite clear that theirrights differed materially from their lefts, but who,like himself, were anxious to be initiated into the mys-teries, even if they did confuse their right foot with theirleft at times. Beginning to Learn Let us start at the beginning of the training. It wasa business full of startling discoveries for the newKitchener men. The recruit was taught the first
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