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September 6, 1939.

The Infantry take to wheels and the Bren gun, with which they drive into action on these "caterpillar" gun-carriers.

The biggest

Definition of perfect

manners by

E. M. DELAFIELD

A

YOUNG man, then in his late twenties,

once lamented to me that his mother- a widow--had done a thoroughly bad day's work In bringing him up to a standard known to her- self and her friends as "having perfect manners."

Ho complained, probably with absolute truth, that the perfect manners had caused him to be lonthed and despised by all his contemporaries. from his prep, school days onwards, and that it had cost him a great deal of trouble to rid him- self of his superfluous politeness in a world in which plainly no demand whatsoever existed for "perfect manners."

Actually, what I think he really meant was that his mother had brought him up to the for- mulas and small social graces of her own early youth and that they were just about as much in place as might have been the velvet suits and long ringlets of Little Lord Fauntleroy carried on into the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cra.

We come across some strange examples of bad manners nowa- days.

change in the

since 1914 Army

THE British "Tommy" has been remodelled into a

superman., Foot-slogging is finished. Mr. Atkins, ex- soldier combined, will drive pert gunner, mechanic, and

into the fray.

are

-by-

Lieut.-Col. T. A. LOWE,

Daily Mail Services Correspondent

manoeuvre and

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The young man of 20 who wrote a letter to his future father-in-law and addressed him as "Dear Robinson" was lacking in courtesy, probably through sheer ignorance.

So was the girl who, appar- ently bored by my conversation when her mother brought her to my house for tea, took up a book and read it until it was time to

go.

Heard At Lord's

On the other hand, I was a

good deal impressed by a conversation that I heard not very long ago at Lord's.

Two

was easy to guess that one wa an elderly man and the other a very young girl.

Each vehicle has one Bren very word "infantry" is derived The present remodelling of the infantry battalion, the big it to cross bullet-swept areas infant, which explains why.

gun, and its armour is to enable from the Latin infans, meaning gest change in the Army since and carry its crew into action. 1914, will provide a superior The crew of three men, when, The varlet or follower of fighting machine. By training they have reached a covered mounted lord was called a boy. Tive people were sitting exactly Is the Royal Navy strong the foot soldier to drive carriers, position, dismount and select and he "trod privily after his to use light machine-guns as suitable ground from which to master." Our wily varlets, the ✦✦ | enough · now to be our sure

modern infantry, hope to follow well as his rifle, to fire mortars, use their weapons.

the heavy tanks in the same shield? Let us examine some and to ride in trucks, we

The man had a great deal to say. It is easy to see how useful way, and rather expect that their and it was all about some blissful facts and figures. They are very converting the carefree, irre- this carrier platoon would be in lordships in the land cruisers period that he referred to as "the old aponsible "Tommy" into a super- a modern war. It can protect will collect a goodly share of the way, 'way back into the early nine- .days,' and that apparently went soldier.

riflemen who are fighting their dirty work before the infantry-teen-hundreds. The first answer to the quen- When brains and brawn are way forward. It opens up new men's turn comes,

"We used to have great times at tion is the disappearance of all will be the ideal infantryman, infantry battalion may become remodelled battalion has changed "The thing to do in those days was

evenly distributed, the result possibilities. The attack of an

The tactical handling of the Ranelagh, I remember," he said. German ships from seven whose image must live in the a thing of

Henley Regatta, don't-chin-know." minds of the Army Council, imagination instead of a process ties of the C.O. have increased, plied picasantly, giving exactly the

in every way. The responsibili-

And each time the other voice re- seas, the concentration of Ger- otherwise they would not con- of disaster, as so often happen and therefore we must expect a many's fleet in the funk-hole at tinue to spend vast sums on his ed on the Somme and at a higher standard of intellectual

right effect of being deeply interest- chendaele during the Great Wilhelmshaven, where the

War, when men dreaded service attainment from infantry officers Their conviction is that the in the doomed battalions of the than in the past. R.A.F. mercilessly bombed the

infantry soldier of the future "P.B.I."

New weapons will only give will be neither a "tough guy"

The new mobility which has have obtained the mastery of been created for infantry by them, but the remodelled batta- turn round and take a look, I sat nor a "softie," but a hard-work-

When I eventually contrived to mechanised vehicles may enable lion has already begun a renais- that the gentleman was even more the soldier to return to the sance which may give us com- elderly than I had supposed and More Striking Power individualism of the light infan- plete superiority over massed singularly devoid of the charm so THE recruit must still, of try in the days of the Peninsular armies of conscripts, who cannot often seen in the elderly: that of a

distinguished appearance. course, receive sound in- War.

hope to be in the same class, If struction in his rifle, which is It was then Britain's distinc- only because of the material re- now considered as a weapon for tion to produce something new,

quired. his personal protection.

a corps d'elite of skirmishers The Navy List for July-the

will not spend nearly so much who could use their brains as last one, in peace time form, that time with it on the barrack well as their weapons, and who, will be issued until after the war square or on the ranges; in for that reason, surpassed the applicable to-day as it was in the

stead, he must become wedded infantry of other armies. to his Bren gun, upon which all

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and a self-respecting citizen.

He

the Territorial

ed in reminiscences that were really so utterly pointless in themselves

that even a contemporary must have found them dreary. Besides, they were very long-drawn-out, and had

security to troops when they that was going on.

nothing to do with the cricket match

35lb. Pack

IN the British Army the term "light infantryman" is as

or

The girl was 20 at the very most: completely sophisticated to look at. beautifully dressed and made up, and with her eyes fixed on the cricket pitch, so that ong felt certain it really was the game that she had wanted irrelevant conversation. to attend to, rather than anybody's

I thought, and still think, that she had shown the truest kind of good manners in being so nice to her tire- somely garrulous old escort-even though her vocabulary was slipstred, slangy and occasionally blasphemous. "Miss Er"

Its origin in consideration

-records the existence in fight-

Peninsular War. No longer is future tactics will be based. The strength in man-power of the foot soldier expected to ing trim of no fewer than 324 |

Army Field march

run with bayonet, principal British warships. They became more helpless a wea-

In the Great War the infantry Force, entirely exclusive of the haveranck, water-bottle, and en- Beven Anti-Aircraft divisions trenching tool jangling round include 12 battleships, 3 battle-pons became more powerful, and and the Coast Defence units, is his thighs.

for a time nearly all movement 295,000. This week nearly 160,- cruisers,, 59 other cruisers, was stopped. The advent of the 000 men

Instead, he wears a narrow GEN

VENUINE politeness, which has are out in training, belt and two braces on which for other people and in the exercise anti-aircraft ships, 9 aircraft- Bren gun is likely to restore the learning how to work in re- pouches for ammunition are of self-control, has lite to do with

balance and re-establish the modelled battalions. carriers, 18 flotilla leaders, 161 offensive power of the foot-

carried in front. On his back, formulas, and less still with social destroyers, and 58 submarines. soldier.

The whole of this force is in the sensible manner of the graces and there will always be u

for it.: If minor warships, such as mine-

The remodelled infantry bat- the Regular Army in any part

available for association with hiker's pack, he carries his

haversack,

Naturally one has one's personal with water-bottle, prejudices and preferences. To be layers and gunboats, be added, talion consists of an H.Q. com-

of the world, should necessity mess-tin, knife, fork, and spoon, shaken hands with by someone who pany, and four other companies, the grand total rises to 459. each of three platoons of three arise, and it is being provided and a warm cardigan Jersey, all at the same time looks away from

sections. The rifle strength is,.

with modern weapons and equip inside. The total weight of the you is a minor discourtesy that. I myself resenting as always find though it were a major one. To this mighty force we are therefore, Teas by duce platoon ment on exactly the same scale, load complete is 35lb.

And I sympathised' heartily with Clad in this fashion, he can the young guest staying in my house The plan is not yet complete, now adding more than one new per company than before, but Tel. 59345. warship overy week. With the against this the Commanding but meanwhile, to show what can jump into armoured vehicles or whom I took out to tea with a neigh- Officer has a vastly increased be accomplished or Improvised, trucks without discomfort, and bour, when she afterwards said pite- building programme of 1939 fire strength under his hand. the 2nd London Infantry Brigade if he goes on parade with oll-being called nothing at all, but that already well under way, Britain's His 50 Bren guns, his mortar (T.A.) moved out of London to stains on his clothes he is not she did rather object to being ad- shipyards are engaged in the platoon, his carrier platoon, and Camp at Burley in a mechanised regarded by the sergeant-major dressed on three separate occasions

as something which has escaped a "Miss Er."

And few things are more madden- from a cheese. his pioneer platoon, are all new column of 450 vehicles.

ing than to be badgered by some course of this year in building acquisitions and provide him The move was carried out

with tremendous hitting power, without a hitch, and Sir Malcolm the Army--at first. In time the

New brooms sweep clean in well-meaning friend on the subject

of one's private-affairs... 200 warships, Including nine His 25 trucks ensure mobility. Campbell, as Assistant Provost bristles become less penetrating morrow?

"But why can't you come to- battleships.

The personnel of the carrier Marshal, with a large force of and the dust settles down in Ita "I'm afraid I'm already booked."

"Whero?" A It is a very great Navy, a very platoon consists of one officer motor-cyclists at his disposal, accustomed grooves, but in this

"HI have to go to see an old friend case.thanks to the action of and 20 other ranks, and they controlled the traffic en route. efficient Navy, a supreme Navy. travel in ten small, beetle-like

-at-Brighton," To Follow The Tanks the totalitarian States-the Is it anyone I know? Why Its Air Service is paramount; vehicles, pictured above, with

broom has been exchanged for shouldn't we go together? Y should,

the trip." tractor wheels and armoured BRITISH infantrymen have at a vacuum cleaner, and the pat-There is only one way of dealing alone among navies it has the bodies. Their role is entirely ways managed to adapt torn on the carpet is at last re-with this type of bad manners, and secret of submarine destruction. different from the tank.

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