TAILIEUCHUNG - The Amateur Army

am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared. At Chelsea I found myself a unit of the 2nd London Irish Battalion, afterwards I was drilled into shape at the White City and training was concluded at St. Albans, where I was drafted into the 1st Battalion. In my spare time I wrote several articles dealing with the life of the soldier from the stage of raw "rooky" to that of finished fighter. These I now publish in book form, and. | The Amateur Army 1 The Amateur Army The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Amateur Army by Patrick MacGill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Amateur Army Author Patrick MacGill Release Date June 16 2005 EBook 16078 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMATEUR ARMY Produced by Internet Archive Canadian Libraries http details toronto Suzanne Lybarger William Flis and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http THE AMATEUR ARMY BY PATRICK MACGILL BY THE SAME AUTHOR CHILDREN OF THE DEAD END THE RAT-PIT Illustration RIFLEMAN PATRICK MACGILL HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED ARUNDEL PLACE HAYMARKET LONDON . MCMXV _Wyman Sons Ltd. Printers London and PREFACE I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life but who joined the army after war was declared. At Chelsea I found myself a unit of the 2nd London Irish Battalion afterwards I was drilled into shape at the White City and training was concluded at St. Albans where I was drafted into the 1st Battalion. In my spare time I wrote several articles dealing with the life of the soldier from the stage of raw rooky to that of finished fighter. These I now publish in book form and trust that they may interest men who have joined the colours or who intend to take up the profession of arms and become members of the great brotherhood of fighters. PATRICK MACGILL. The London Irish British Expeditionary Force _March 25th_ 1915. CHAPTER I 2 CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I I ENLIST AND AM BILLETED 13 CHAPTER II RATIONS AND SICK PARADE 23 CHAPTER III PICKETS AND SPECIAL LEAVE 36 CHAPTER IV OFFICERS AND RIFLES 48 CHAPTER V THE COFFEE-SHOP AND WANKIN 60 .

• Tiếng Anh thương mại
• I ENLIST AND AM BILLETED
• MIMIC WARFARE
• DIVISIONAL EXERCISE
• WANKIN
• THE COFFEE SHOP
• OFFICERS AND RIFLES
• RATIONS AND SICK PARADE