Manual of drill and camping for the St. John Ambulance Brigade : compiled from the manuals of infantry drill and R.A.M.C. training, 1911.

Date:
[1911?]
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Credit: Manual of drill and camping for the St. John Ambulance Brigade : compiled from the manuals of infantry drill and R.A.M.C. training, 1911. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. When the formation is moving, executive words will be completed as the men begin the pace which will bring them to the spot on which the command is to be executed. The caution must be commenced accordingly (see also Sec. 18, 1, note). 4. Young officers and non-commissioned officers will be frequently practised in giving words of command. 5. Indistinct and slovenly words of command beget slovenly movements and must alwaj^s be avoided. 6. The cautions and commands in this manual are, as a rule, given with regard to one flank only, but the same principle applies equally to movements to the other flank, which will also be practised. Squad Djrill with Intervals. 4. Formation of s(piads with intervals. 1. A few men will be placed in single rank at arm’s length apart; while so formed, they will be termed a squad with intervals. 2. Instruction can best be imparted to a squad in single rank, but, if want of space makes it necessary, the squad may consist of two ranks, in which case the men of the rear rank will cover the intervals between the men in the front rank, so that in marching they may take their own points, as directed in Sec! 13. 3. Recruits will, in the first instance, be placed in ])osition by the insti-uctor ; when they have learned to dress as described in Sec. 8, they will be taught to fall in as above described, and then to dress and correct their intervals. After they have been instructed as far as Sec. 18, they may fall in as directed in Sec. 19.