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November 28, 2020

QotD: Army recruit training

Filed under: Britain, History, Humour, Military, WW1 — Tags: — Nicholas @ 01:00

To-day our platoon once marched, in perfect step, for seven complete and giddy paces, before disintegrating into its usual formation — namely, an advance in irregular échelon, by individuals.

Ian Hay (Major John Hay Beith), The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of “K(1)”, 1916.

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