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Ing through gas chambers and a recent "intake," or call-up. I was
When I visited a training centre, While we were looking at some of Bangkok TWENTY-FIVE years ago the
Dombay backbone of the British which continuously passes 2,000 men these huts, a group of men in civill- Calcutta
through the infantry sausage ma- an clothes crossed an operi space. Colombe Army, known variously as "the chine, I was conscious that I and They looked slightly bewildered and Galle poor So-and-So infantry" or the entered a new military world. apprehensive. foot-soldier, went off to war with Men were doing a hundred dif- Some of the more comfortable- following equipment: a rifle, a ferent things; stripping machine- looking among them gazed with evi- bayonet, 150 rounds of S.A.A., Huns, learning to drive trucks, study dent feelings of nausea towards the ing the theory of engines and pro- little groups of kluki figures, now a water-bottle, a haversack, blems of repair, learning to fire the crawling forward over a muddy field Exchange Burincas transactedt. pack which held his kit and over: anti-tank rifte, practising the art of on their stomachs. coat, an entrenching tool, and bringing down a dive bomber, pass- These civilians were members of
told that they had been met at the day's rations.
Some were advancing like Red Ballon by N.C.Os and, having re- All this weighed 60 pounds. Indians across open country: others ported to their platoon commanders, When the war was over in were learning how to scatter and were on their way to the stores to 1918, the same person looked take cover at the approach of hostile de would then take them
equipment. The like a Christmas tree or a well- aircraft.
"Drill?" said an officer. "Yes, we back to their huts, show them how stocked general store.
During four years of war heulenty of drill because it is the to dress, after which they would put basis of disciplined movements; and their civilian clothes in brown paper had collected machine-guns, Mills we also do plenty of route marches, and post them home.
bombs, a tin hat, a gas mask, People who think Infantry spend Where Is He? Verey lights, trench mortars, their time riding about in lorries smoke bombs, and a few other are quite wrong." odds and ends.
The
"How does the modern infantry Bun differ from his predecessor?"
INFANTRY of To-day
The only thing with which the
As they passed, I heard an N.C.O. say politely: "Tuls way, please."
And I thought that the most nola- ble Agure of the Great War seems invisible and Inaudible; tho terrifying sergeant major with waxed moustache, who took a de- light in scaring the lives out of new recruits.
Dow
What has happened to him? Does he_still_cxist in some lonely units..
is he an extinct species?
or
It hardly seems possible that such a massive character could disappear from the earth in the space of one generation.
Speaking to some of the recrulis as soon as they had put on their klakt, I asked what they had been. doing in civil life.
IL was just as though one had "Of course, he has more to learn. stopped twenty men in the busy
fortunes of war had not provided That is general throughout the Army streets of any city and asked their him was a hand-cart to carry His weapons are dendiler and there
His training is more complicated. occupations. They were a perfect
cross-section of his many acquisitions.
society. ure more of them.
I felt
Most of them
from
up-
To-day the infantryman is still "He has to be disciplined, without thirty sympathy for the men over the backbone of the Army, al- being made into a robot. He must with families, and most had achieved were married, though one hears so much talk be able to think for himself and to certain success in their trades and
if his officers and professions. They
Lous
had been of tanks and mechanised units take charge
rooted
established civilian nowadays that one might ima N.C.Os are put out of action.
"And, above all in this modern backgrounds, gine the infantry to have been war, he has got to have speed ant ΤΟ alad of twenty the Army is abolished..
dash combined with deadly accurate an adventure; to a man of thirty-five
ve ordeal. fire power."
is an And I admired the spirit of a little fellow with greying hair-he had been grocer's assistant-who, struggling with the belt of his battle- dress, said to his glum companions:
"Well, chums, we're
But it is very much alive. If ane compares the tanks to 'the head of a spear, the infantry is the shaft.
Up To Date Now
Night-work
I was told that infantryman at this centre are taught, in addition to the swift Rugby football methods of the
War, the old-fashioned art of trench
it
this let through all right to ree
The Convert
In Libya to-day, where British, warfare behind barbed wire.
In a muddy, open space near the and Imperial infantry are in actions and learn how to work in the scene. Thirty or forty men had each They also do a lot of night opern cook-house. I came upon a strange tion, we see how the mechanised dark. Every man must be able to made an oven out of clay and bricks, units smash their way through mount and load a machine-gun in and they were cooking a leg of mut- the enemy positions, leaving to total darkness before he passes out. ton in each oven. the Infantry, who follow close "Another feature of training_is
Thirty or forty legs of mutton: behind, the essential task of con- cookery." said the oMeer. "The what a sigh!!
French soldier can solidation.
always cook But, whereas infantry in the last soldier is not so accomplished.
something for himself, but the British Wor were trained ол
"The idea is to teach these men, Waterloo We insist that every man who who are Army cooks, how to carry methods; to march and perform bare passes through this centre shall cook racks square evolutions (which were a meal for himself in the field.
without any on
regular kitchen actually battle movements in past men are issued with their rations ages when regiments went into ac and the cook sergeant is in attend- made oven and came clumping back
One man
man peeped into his hemo- tion in step), the modem infantry ance to teach them how to make the through the mud with a beautifully- man has been brought up to date. beal of their food.”
He can be rushed into action in
browned leg of mutton. He tested We visited, some of the modern with a finger and poured a trucks and carriers,
a spoon- half dead after a long march, but tunate of our soldiers spend their
"spider" huts in which the more for- ful of bolling fat over It.. arriving,
"And what were you doing in fresh and full of vigour.
first few months. The luxury of life?" I
asked him.
not
The equipment," I was told.
civil
On such an occasion it is not neces these huts surprised me when I com I was sauce chef at," he replied, sory for him even to carry his pack, pared them with the Army huts of mentioning one of the most expen- which can be carried for him on the 35 years ago, which were just hutsalve restaurants in London..
They are erected on brick founda-But don't you find Instead of the solitary companion- tions, they are centrally heated, elec,thing rather
trucks.
guished from his predecessor by his cold showers. mobilly and his immensely increased
and
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of his rifle the soldier's best trically, lit, each man has a locker "I like it," he said with a laugh. friend" he has a wide circle of other above la bed, and each hut has a He gave the mutton another prod friends, which includes the Bren gun room where men may clean equip I looked round the muddy plot and the anti-tank rifle, so that "foot ment and dry wet clothes, a baggage dotted with home-made ovens. soldier" of to-day is chiefly dlatin room and bathrooms with hot and "Well," you'll.
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shall never go back ? he Dut, despite the change in the
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I don't know what I shall do, habile, the tactics and equipment of The comfort of soldiers in a regu- but I shall never to backlar 2006 infantry, the bagle unit remains the lar camp-or rather in one of these And that is what. War doen to us which has existed, and under the the old Army never dreamed of; and tally, and most of us can never ro same name, since 1680.1
—wouldn't have belloved it if it had!-back."
fire power.
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