Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defiant regimental peculiarity is the spelling of the word 'Welch' with a 'c.' I have seen a young officer sent off battalion parade because his buttons read Welsh instead of Welch...
Drills will continue for ten weeks and will cover squad, platoon, company, and battalion organization. They will be held on Wednesdays and Thursdays in the Rogers building. It is planned to appoint temporary petty officers at each drill until permanent organization plans are completed. This is the first time in the four year history of the unit that drills have been carried on extensively...
...answered: 'It was an accident, sir . . . we mistook him for our platoon sergeant.' So they were both shot by a firing squad of their own company." In Béthune Graves saw queues of 150 men lined up before the army brothel. "Each woman served nearly a battalion of men every week for as long as she lasted...
...types of gas-mask were always being issued. One kind was known in Graves' battalion as "the goggle-eyed b-r with the tit." Graves' nose had been broken boxing, so he had to have an operation while on leave in order to breathe through the mask. In July, 1916, he was so severely wounded in the lung by a shell that he was reported dead, and the colonel wrote a letter of condolence to his mother. Later, in England, he had difficulty cashing cheques because of his illegal vitality...