STIFF TRAINING
UNDERGONE BY BRITISH OFFICERS SWIM WHILE WEARING BATTLE DRESS. WITH RIFLES AND BOOTS SLUNG. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 8. In steel helmets and battledress and with rifles slung around their necks, a dozen officers in the Midlands swam sixty yards during an intensive hard-ening-up course which they are now undergoing. The physical training officers showed them how to swim with rifle and boots slung. The hope was experienced that strong swimmers can help along colleagues not so experienced in the water and how officers in full kit can be propelled though wrapped in a ground sheet and anti-gas caps. The hardening course is officially for officers under 40, but several over that age took part. The course includes route marches in respirators, ropeclimbing in full equipment, bombthrowing, complicated obstacle racing, tugs-o’-war and unarmed combat apart from normal daily physical training.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 5
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