Our battalion : being some slight impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in camp and elsewhere (1902)
Raven-Hill, L. (Leonard), 1867-1942 · London : "Punch" Office · leaf 81
Philosophies. Chargin, said the Junior Subaltern, is all bally rot; and when we carried a beastly sword itwas positively dangerous. You blew your whistle, bolted out in front cf your men, howledChar-r-r-ge I shoved your foot in a hole, or got the scabbard between your legs ancame aregular mucker,… … M.G. Extract from Diary.—We got our Maxim into a capital position on theflank, but before we could fire a shot we were put out of action forsome time.
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