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

By L. Raven-Hill

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L. Raven-Hill

Our Battalion

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

EAN 8596547126652

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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.

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

Our Battalion

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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.

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LONDON:

PUNCH OFFICE, 10, BOUVERIE ST., E.C.

1902.

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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 disused malt-house