Impressions of a doctor in khaki / by Francis E. Fremantle.
- Fremantle, Francis E. (Francis Edward), 1872-1943.
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Impressions of a doctor in khaki / by Francis E. Fremantle. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![subalterns who are going' out on special signalling duty with the divisional staffs, and style them- selves Captain and wear red tabs on the collars accordingly. Red tabs are apparently the sign of greatness, being worn by everybody who is not doing the humdrum, and therefore inferior, work of a regiment or corps. One of these three con- siders himself especially lucky, having only spent four years in the service, and only just begun his two years’ course at the Staff College. He, how- ever, does not yet consider himself very great, despite the red tabs. Friday, October 2']th. Fell into conversation this evening with an officer from a well-known public school, who explained an old conundrum as to how it was possible to live in the Army on a small allowance and yet go in for sport. He does it by giving up all tobacco and alcohol of every kind, and is thereby able to get a good month with the stag-hounds at Dulverton and other west country hunts every year. This ideal of a good soldier and good sportsman commends itself forcibly to the town- body, whose own ideal is generally all mind and no body. The community really needs both ; but the more perfect man is certainly not the latter. Another officer tells me he heard Sir Redvers Buller say in a London club before starting that within a month of the Army-Corps’ landing in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2486819x_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
