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15 After supper, they were shown the guns, searchlights, wireless station and all the contrivances the camp had to offer. They were well entertained at no. 2 gun by an extremely smart and knowledgeable sergeant of the B. M A. who referred to different parts of the gun as this gentleman here and that gentleman there but who, unfor- tunately was cut short in the middle of a highly spirited demonstra- tion of gun drill in the event of a misfire, in which he took the part of every man in the gun crew at the same time. The next morning, Reveille was at 5.30 for a fall-in at 6.00 and route march at 6.15. Bearing in mind that an average of certainly no m.ore than three hours sleep was« had by all, they gave a fairly good account of themselves . We take this opportunity of thanking Major Moore and the B. V. E. once again for their kindness and hospitality. FIELD DAY. The Field Day is always the hardest thing to write about Cadets. This would not be difficult to understand if you could watch the devel- opment from comparative order to more or less complete confusion v hich inevitably res ' ults. On Wednesday, April 5th, at 9.50 a.m., the Cadets, Band to the fore, marched out of the School gates heading for that scene of many a reeking, smoking battle, Devonshire Marsh. The idea was to arrive at a place some distance beyond the Devonshire golf course shortly before ten o ' clock having relinquished the band instruments on the way. The Saltus force was then to divide against itself — a morale shattering performance — and the detached unit was to join forces v ith the enemy. That the enemy were milk sops to have to have reinforcement from us is brought home all the more by the fact that their rendezvous was the Devonshire Dairy. Our objective that day was ' to endeavour to prevent the enemy from setting fire to two oil wells which were our cherished property, the one actually at Devonshire Marsh and the other at Prospect. Our hasty advance to well no. 1 was first checked at 10.30 when our lead- ing scout was fired on. (This was a good thing, for otherwise we should have got there first and spoilt the Field Day.) As it was, we were just too late to see the balloon go up, and by the time we arrived the dastardly sabotage was already wro ' ught. There was only one thing for it now and that was to send half the force with the greatest dis- patch round another way to cut them off while the other half engaged them in the rear. This plan was duly carried out.
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14 expressions was I ' m a terror, aren ' t I. One was- forced to admit it. He was. The Band was very honoured when the buglers were asked to play the calls on Armistice Day, there being only three regular buglers at Prospect. The Last Post they knew vaguely. The Reveille, a very long call consisting of just over 150 notes, was entirely new to them. The notice they were given was by no means long, but after frequent and concentrated practices they were fairly well up to standard. On the whole, they did very well, and Band-Master Smith of the Sherwood Foresters who came down almost daily said he was pleased with them. Over the rest of our participation in Armistice Day we have already tried to draw a veil . . . Suffice it to say that we were very much the tail end and our marching suffered (as also, no doubt, did that of everyone else near us) owing to the fact that, going down Front Street within 150 yards of each other, three bands were playing different tunes in different times. It was pretty good Bedlam. It was a case of All played fast, but none played faster than we. We were immedi- ately behind the B. M. A. some of whose many admirers very soon fell back and walked as supernumeraries among our ranks. We were brought to a standstill three times and finally, outside the Phoenix, the B. M. A. band stopped, for all intents and purposes, to give an informal and impromptu concert to the sea of appreciative faces that were surrounding them. I think that it was at this juncture that we more or less gave up. VISIT TO B. V. E. CAMP. On two occasions during the winter the Band played in and around Hamilton for the B. V. E.s to march to. The second time was when they were almost at their lowest ebb, when they should not really have gone out and we thought we were not going to be asked again. How- ever, the hospitality of the B. V. E.s came to the fore, and once again they asked us down to St. David ' s for the night. This time, we tried to do a little more to make ourselves worthy of the invitation and, a=t their request, arranged to put on a short P.T. display. This they watched with more attention and less derision than perhaps it deserved, but on the other hand, to be quite fair, the Band did try very hard and going through a complete table without a single command the way they did is possibly a little harder than you might think.
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