Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday morning the members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps started their third week of intensive training, with several new subjects in their day's work. At 8 o'clock the entire Corps, meeting in 26 sections in various University buildings, had its first lesson in military topography, and immediately afterwards the men were put through the physical drill which will from this time on be a regular feature of the daily program. There followed an hour of semaphore signalling, and the rest of the morning was spent in practice on the sub-calibre ranges and in bayonet drill...
...Section meetings will also be held, commencing today, so that the theoretical side of the training will become more individual than it has been so far. These sections will be under the direction of men thoroughly familiar with the theory of military science and will be held twice daily at 8 and 1.30 o'clock, lasting an hour each. Thus, for this week, the physical drill will be reduced to six hours and greater attention paid to the knowledge of the prescribed text-books...
...Section meetings: Monday, 8-9; all companies. Military Topography: Text, Grieves, pp. 1-16. 1.30-2.30: Companies C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, and R.D.; Minor Tacties: Bjornstad...
Following up the discussion of the front line trenches, the communication and second and support lines were described, and the necessity for their strong fortification emphasized. Plans of a typical section of front were shown, and the various salients, machine gun and automatic rifle positions, and the relative position of the three lines of trenches with their necessary defences were described in detail...
...Section meetings for the entire regiment will start next week. Lists of the meeting places of the various groups will be posted later and the work to be taken up by the men in the meetings announced...