Our Battalion: Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere
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Our Battalion - L. Raven-Hill
L. Raven-Hill
Our Battalion
Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066159535
Table of Contents
PUNCH
OFFICE
10, BOUVERIE STREET LONDON E.C.
OUR BATTALION.
3 a.m.
Our Battalion
Being some slight impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere.
L. RAVEN-HILL.
LONDON: PUNCH
OFFICE, 10, BOUVERIE ST., E.C. 1902.
Our Battalion.
RECRUITS.
The Manual.
ON INSTRUCTIN'.
Not to be trifled with.
Flag-wagging.
THE SYSTEM.
Field Training.
ON THE G.O.C.
The Seven Ages of the Volunteer.
WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
The Firing Exercise.
Our Review
Army Orders.
Patrols.
THE LOST PATROL.
A Fair Samaritan.
Our N.C.O.'s (No. 1) .
Our N.C.O.'s (No. 2) .
Hints for Patrols.
The Best Laid Schemes, etc.
No. 1.
Lt.-Col. Sir DIGBY SANDILANDS, M.P.
Reserves.
A Camp Fire.
A Conundrum.
Capt. and Adjt. JERRY
BENSON.
Studies.
Ambushed!
Field-Day Reflections.
Tactics.
Field-Day Tragedies.
2nd Lieut. FITZGERALD LAWLESS.
The Gun Team.
Off Duty.
Philosophies.
M.G.
More Army Reforms.
On Guard.
A Misunderstanding.
Pte. TIMOTHY SIMMONS.
On the Range.
Outposts.
At Last!
Off Duty.
Trouble in the Band.
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PUNCH
OFFICE
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10, BOUVERIE STREET
LONDON
E.C.
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OUR BATTALION.
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The Whitefriars Press
Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Ltd.,
Printers,
London and Tonbridge.
3 a.m.
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Sentry: Sunrises are all bloomin' fine in their way, but I'd rather be in bed.
Our Battalion
Table of Contents
Being some slight impressions of
His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces,
in Camp and Elsewhere.
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BY
L. RAVEN-HILL.
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An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it.
RUDYARD KIPLING.
LONDON:
PUNCH
OFFICE, 10, BOUVERIE ST., E.C.
1902.
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[All Rights Reserved.]
Our Battalion.
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RECRUITS.
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The boy hesitated as he looked down the wet street of the little country town.
I've 'arf a mind not to go,
he said, blessed if I ain't——;
then, after a pause, with hands in pockets and coat collar turned up, he lounged off, muttering, I'll see what Bill ses.
Bill was waiting at the corner, looking somewhat sheepishly at the miscellaneous display in a general
shop window.
Goin'?
he said, as the other came up. Don't think I shall—at any rate not to-night.
A depressing silence ensued, until a smart lad, with belt and bayonet, came by whistling and hailed them.
Wot O! Bill; you ought to be down at the ord'ly room by now, the sergeant's bin there ever so long. I told 'im I'd bring you two along to-night. Wot are you scared about?
he continued, eyeing them critically.
Ain't scared about nothing; we was only waiting till the rain cleared off.
Well, 'urry up, I've got to go to the Arm'ry.
All right,
said the first boy. Come on, Bill.
The boys stared furtively round the orderly-room, a little box partitioned off from the