. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. Mn^^^^ if niWI A FULLY TRAINED COMFANV OF KITCIlENFi;s ARK. Kitcheners Army. lAVE TRAINED INTO A FINE BODY OF SOLDIERS. In this ominous style did he indicate theuselessness of cavalry attacking infantrytroops in close formation. This was the beginning of the field train-ing—a training which extended by and byto every branch of warfare and its science,as we shall see. This field-training succeeded the cere-monial drill, the marching by companies,the manoeuvring of sections and platoonsinto line, the
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. Mn^^^^ if niWI A FULLY TRAINED COMFANV OF KITCIlENFi;s ARK. Kitcheners Army. lAVE TRAINED INTO A FINE BODY OF SOLDIERS. In this ominous style did he indicate theuselessness of cavalry attacking infantrytroops in close formation. This was the beginning of the field train-ing—a training which extended by and byto every branch of warfare and its science,as we shall see. This field-training succeeded the cere-monial drill, the marching by companies,the manoeuvring of sections and platoonsinto line, the exercises with rifle andbayonet, and the longer ph_\-sical drills which were part of the daily routine in theearlier days of the recruits service. Field work is a general term which com-prehends all the field training outside actualbarrack-square training. One morningwould be devoted to drill in extended order,another to the practice of the attack, yetanother to the more difficult and back-aching business of trench digging. Here the recruit came upon unsuspectedlines of information. He touched thefringe of real war one day wiien he was i \^ i
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