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By

H. V. Morton

IT is said that an okt lady, on hear- lug that her nephew had joined an Oetu, remarked' that she had no ken the Russians had come in on our side.

The word Octu, which is now heard upon the lips of so many thou sands of our young men, is the Army abbreviation for Officer Cadet Train- Ing Unit.

It will be agreed that, of all the abbreviations created by this War. It enally wins first prize for ugliness. It is now the rule that every off- cer in the new Ármy must, Brst serve six months in the ranks, but I heard a rumour in the War Office the other day that this period may be shor-. tened.

The need for officers continues to be urgent in an Army that is expond- ing so rapidly,

In Three Months

At the present time, however, a sultable candidato, having completed six months service as a private sol- dier, is recommended by his com- manding officer to one of the training? units.

Here an eighteen months' course is crammed into three months, and if at The end of that time the young man · posses le examinations he goes on

Officers-to-be recolvo instruction in the use of Bron guns.

School for OFFICERS

leave to await the appearance of his name in the "London Gazette" and the arrival of a parchment from the King.

This parchment is his commission. un Interesting word which dates from the time before there was a standing army, when noblemen raised levies by Royal Command by virtue of a warrant, or commission, signed by the Moriarch.

The_wording_of_a_commission_is still pleasantly archaic. It reads:

"Given at our Court of Saint James's by His Majesty's command to our Trusty and Well Be- loved

Greetings; We do by these Presents Constitute and Appoint you to be second-leuten- ant in our Land Forces."

On receiving this document the new lleutenant may wear officer's ` uniform and put up the badge of his rank-one star, or plp, as it is com- monly called, and go out to acknow- ledge his first salute.

All Equal

In the eyes of the Army Council. all Octus are equal.

They all work to the same syllabus, except, of course, those who train specialista, such as signallers, and they all turn out their endels to the same specified standard

Even Sandhurst on opposite number, Woolwich, known to the Army as "the Shop," are ordinary Octus to-day, and there are now no special privileges attached to either of those two famous training grounde for the Regular Army.

Sandhurst alone has one speciality: all officers destined for the Drigade of Guards must go there, but other wise a cadet may just as easily find himself at Sandhurst as anywhere cise.

Thinking it would be interesting to sée Sandhurst functioning as a demo- cratie Octu, I went there the other morning and was fortunate enough to arrive in a brief gleam of winter sunshine.

Good To Look At

"I had no idea that Sandhurst is so good to look at. It is a huge, low Regency stucco building set in the middle of a lovely park.

Like the Hymnal. It may be divided Into Ancient and Moderni the ancient the grand Regency bullding with old cannon standing in front of it, and the modern is a vast and regret. lable Edwardian extension which bas only one virtue, that from many Bolghbouring viewpoints 1 is invisi bio,

As I drove through the park and came within sight of the dignified old building, I thought for a moment, that Sandhurst had changed lin: nox.;

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men, and prefer to be treated as would have a grand time in the A.TS. at Sandhurst!

I found the Orderly Room where the Adjutant told me the strength of the unit.

Thoy are all sorts: young man for the Guards: young men for the in- fantry; young men for the Royal Armoured. Corps: young men who bear the names of field-marshals and generals; young men whose names are ns yet unknown to military famo,

They come from public schools, .council schools, from offices, from factories, from near, from far, even from New Zealand and Australia.

Sandhurst is now divided into two wings; an infantry wing and a Royal Armoured Corps wing." The course is a strenuous one, and a man has to work hard if he aspires to pass with credit.

How They Study!

Divided into eleven main subjects, a Sandhurst course consists of a jotai of 872 periods of study, devoted in varying degree to those subjects.

An idea of the comparative impor. Lance which they occupy in the train- Ing of an officer may be gathered from the number of periods devoted to each.

Tactics come first, by a long way. with 225 periods; then comes Weapon Training with 82, Company Command with 04, Mop Reading with 55, Field Engineering with 54," Drill with 48, Physical Training with 43, Mechani cal Vehicle Training with 40, Organ- isation and Military Law with 28.

Special Lectures with 10, and Anti- Gas Training with 11.

All these main subjects split up into a bewildering series of sub- divisions.

Take one of the most simple-Or- ganisation and Military Law,

This boils down to more than 20 separate subjects of milllary Impor tance, such as organisation, supply In war, evacuation” bi wounded, or dnance services, battalion and com- pany administration, messing, taking over a company, office work, censor. ship, "tecurity, prisoners, reinforce- ments. Billeting and hygiene.

Not A Rest Cure

But this is a simple affair, which. the Bandhurst cadal takes in his stride, compared, for instance, with Tactics.

This subject involves 18 lectures, aight, discussions, ten sand-iable schemes, six demonstrations and 30 outdoor schemes and exercises, in cluding a number of night opara- : ilona.

So if anybody thinks a modern Octu is a rest cure, he had batter think again.

As I was shown over Sandhurst, 1 realised, without having to be told, that it is run by the Guards for the

Accompaniment of those inhuman barks and roars which are the official language of a Guards instructor.

It seemed to me that, as if to un- derline the Guards tradition and to set a good example to the young men, Guards sergeants stamp a bit harder at Sandhurst thon elsewhere, and stand more rigidly to attention,

Discipline I obviously strict,, and manners are correspondingly good.

When, accompanied by an oilleer, 1 made a tour of the hugo building. passing down long corridors, young men. Instantly froze at our approach, and even groups late for a lecture, coming down, a side turning at about fifty miles an hour; managed to pull up sharply and stand with "the thumbs on the scams of the trousersi

"It's Heaven!"

I encountered a young man, the son of a distinguished general, who has just completed six months as a pre vate ut a Guards depot 1 saleed-him- if he noticed any difference.

"Oh yes, sir." he replied promptly; "Sandhurst is heaven, sir."

I have often noticed what very odd ideas of heaven some people possess. But Sandhurst has certain definite out advantages which must shine almost like the fires of home in o hard life.

Cadets have comfortable quarters, two and three to a room, and ane school servant between every three or five cadets-I forget the exact number,

It is the only Octu, I think, in which the endots are allowed the privilege of batmen.

Then the dining-hall is good, and the food at least smells good, and is served by neat and pretty members of the A.T.S.

If I were a cadot, the magnificent library would attract me (but I won- der flow much time cadets. have for Ji, and I should also welcome ser vico in the beautiful Byzantine chapel, on whose walls and pillars every regiment in the British "Army has a memorial to officers (former Sandhurst endels) who fell in the last war.

There are more than 4,000 names. Inscribed on panels, each one sur». mounted by a regimental crest.

Two Stories

The Chaplain told me that Sand- hurst was visited by a German milk. tary mission not long before the war, One of its members, noting that the names of the fallen do not com- pletely fill all the panels, remarked, with typical Teutonic humour: " seo you have left plenty of room for more,"

But another story I heard at Bande hurst was far removed from such grim matters.' It concerns a young cadet who was anxious to do the right thing,

At the earliest possible moment he presented himself before the ser geant-major and naked if he liked to be referred to as "air."

Tha sergeant-major did not actu ally burst, but, with his chest inflated to the full, gave tongue to the fol lowing unpunctuated sentence:

"I'm mir-to-you-sir-and-you're-sir tomo- sir-and-don't-you-forget-it-air

Here's Luck!

'cannot bid good-bye to Sandhurst middle-age, who was a cadet in the last war, feeling again that flood- Udo of youth, so like the roye i re:" member, was a stirring and hearten ing experience, Pl

Guards, with a number of other can-without saying that, to a man of Udates thrown in; and that is not a

·bad Idea, AR BAY we were

The extra pallals they put on Sand- Buret cadela i must make them, wel come wherever they go. STELLAR

visited tecture-foomaj

Lifted high for all to see, on a ter- race in front of the main: building marched and counter-marched a company of young women in 'khaki",

They were, closely and fiercely pur- sued, by a sergeant of the Guards, with slick tucked- under his arm,?tion rooms and wireless rooms,com/beat the Germans twenty-odd years pointing north and south, while the Ingat length to the stables, where. londs of a waxed moustache, pointed.. cadels of the Household Cavalry. past and west; and, his vole bould be ones, groomed their chari heard booming."He

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The boys I remember "helped to (agojo and "boys like those I sawḥat Sandhurst will do it against

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