A NEW CHUM ON OUR VOLUNTEERS.
(To the. Editor of. theETening Star.)
Sir, —Being, a new chum with the suspicion* of lime-juice still ibont me, I am scarcely impudent enough to blazon my real name, and would, therefore, asTc to be allowed to make a remark or two under cover. The Thames Volunteers 1 are retnarkably fine corps. 1 Am fresh-froth the home' provinces, and have seen no better there, nay none so enthusiastic as your; mien here.: I have joined a corps which I think I shall like well, the officers seem well up to their work ; bul if , the system observed in my old corps at home was observed here, it would prove beneficialt i(jil' 'hate tib be shoulder to i shoulder in the ranks with a fellow who does not know his drill. He has no business there. The officers should let no man into 1 the ranks until he has learnt tqnad and rifle drill. There should be two , or three instructors in a company, so that a recruit is first placed under the squad instructor, then the company instructor, and lastbr, J&e musketry instructor, before jBlnK iilowted to fall in the ranks of theßmpany. ' That it how we did it at home.—l am, &c,
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3314, 5 August 1879, Page 3
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209A NEW CHUM ON OUR VOLUNTEERS. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3314, 5 August 1879, Page 3
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