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Our Battalion
Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere

Our Battalion Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Our Battalion, by Leonard Raven-Hill

Title: Our Battalion

Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere

Author: Leonard Raven-Hill

Release Date: October 22, 2010 [eBook #34115]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR BATTALION***

 

E-text prepared by Marcia Brooks, Ross Cooling,
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team
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"PUNCH" OFFICE

10, BOUVERIE STREET
LONDON
E.C.





OUR BATTALION.

 





The Whitefriars Press

Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Ltd.,
Printers,
London and Tonbridge.





3 a.m.

Sentry: "Sunrises are all bloomin' fine in their way, but I'd rather be in bed."





Our Battalion

Being some slight impressions of
His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces,
in Camp and Elsewhere.



BY

L. RAVEN-HILL.




"An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it."

RUDYARD KIPLING.




LONDON:
"PUNCH" OFFICE, 10, BOUVERIE ST., E.C.
1902.

[All Rights Reserved.]






PAGE
Recruits 9
On Instructin' 14
The System 19
On the G.O.C. 28
The Seven Ages of the Volunteer 32
What Might Happen 34
The Lost Patrol 47
Camp Diaries:
No. 1. Lt.-Col. Sir Digby Sandilands, M.P. 59
No. 2. Capt. and Adjt. "Jerry" Benson 66
No. 3. 2nd Lieutenant Fitzgerald Lawless 78
No. 4. Pte. Timothy Simmons 93
Blank Cartridges 102






PAGE
3 a.m. Frontispiece.
The "Manual" 13
Not to be Trifled with 17
Flag-wagging 18
Our First Puttie Parade 24-25
Field Training 27
The Firing Exercise 35
Our Review 40-41

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