HARD TRAINING
TO TOUGHEN SOLDIERS TO MARCH BAREFOOTED NEW ARMY TECHNIQUE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received March 18, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 17 With suitable parade grounds the British infantry battalions will run and march barefooted this summer. This is part of the army technique for making Tommy the toughest soldier in the world. The Evening News says the training will include living only on iron rations, 24 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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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21373, 18 March 1941, Page 6
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91HARD TRAINING Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21373, 18 March 1941, Page 6
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