Still, we are getting on. Number Three Platoon (which boasts a subaltern) has just marched right round the barrack square, without —
(1) Marching though another platoon.
(2) Losing any part or parts of itself.
(3) Adopting a formation which brings it face to face with a blank wall, or piles it up in a tidal wave upon the verandah of the married quarters.
They could not have done that a week ago.
Ian Hay (Major John Hay Beith), The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of “K(1)”, 1916.
November 15, 2020
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