Commissions in the Imperial Army.
Several newspapers in Great Britain are looking forward to the time when the Imperial Army will be a purely professional body,#and when anyone who enters it will be able to support himself from the beginning. At present, it is said, no one can hope for a commission who has not some private means- It is impossible, until the rank of captain is reached, to live on the army pay, and the time during which a young officer must make use of his private means varies from seven years — he will be very lucky if this is his experience — to eleven years. Nine years is a fair average. An engineer officer can live on his pay from the beginning. For the infantry, after the c >sfc of the outfit is defrayed, a subaltern can get along on J6lOO a year ■ besides his pay ; with £150 extra he will do very well. In fche cavalry, it j is practically impossible to £c: along with much less than JGSOO a year, and" In some the figure runs very high. However, an attempt i* boing'inade to reduce the exp r > i cavahy regiments. \
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 131, 10 April 1900, Page 3
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194Commissions in the Imperial Army. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 131, 10 April 1900, Page 3
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