HARD TRAINING
FOR BRITISH INFANTRY BATTALIONS. 1 PLANS FOR THE SUMMER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON. March 17. With suitable parade grounds, British infantry battalions will run a march barefooted this summer as part of the Army technique for making the Tommy the toughest soldier in the world. The “Evening News” says the training will include living only on iron rations for twenty-four hours, tramping thirty miles across the roughest country on dark nights and sleeping hard for only two or three hours between marches.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1941, Page 6
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88HARD TRAINING Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1941, Page 6
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