The Queen's Service: Being the Experiences of a Private Soldier in the British Infantry at Home and Abroad |
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accordingly ADELINE SERGEANT amount Army arrival Author barrack-room barracks battalion bread breakfast Canteen Cape Town CHAPTER charge civilian cloth Colonel Colour-sergeant colours Commanding-officer Company considerable considered cook-house Corporal couple course court-martial Crown 8vo daily deck Demy 8vo diem dinner drill Dublin duty Edition EDMUND GOSSE enlistment fact Fcap field-days Fusiliers garrison Gibraltar guard guard-room HALL CAINE hands HAROLD FREDERIC Illustrations Infantry labour Lance-corporal Lance-sergeant Malta manner manœuvres married matter MAX NORDAU meat Mess miles military months morning naturally necessary night Non-commissioned officers o'clock obtain occasion offences Orderly-man parade performed Portrait position present prisoners promotion punishment quarters rank rations receive recruits regimental réveille round route-marches scarcely seems seldom sentry Sergeant Sergeant-major served Simon's Town soldier soon sort station STEPHEN CRANE tattoo thing troops troopship Valetta W. E. HENLEY