The Ist Durham Light In rom the 6th Infantry Brig Blackdown is on the mot Dilwara and due at Sha: November 23, The old 68th is a fine sporting battalion with a notable record in soccer. It was one of the battalions of the New Zealand cam paign in the Sixties and had green facings from formation until universal white was introduced in 1881, It has, than formerly and a proportion of battalions is on a machine gun basis which balances the reduction of infantry brigades to three battalions. Cavalry mechanization demands three regiments in each brigade instead of the contemplated pair and each Division has one regiment. A geographical infantry solution is to place the home battalions in their county barracks with the recruit company attached and brigade them in the training season at the big centres. This would carry out territorialization to the full, show counties their own old regiments of numbered foot and stimulate recruiting in the winter months. Depot barracks are costly and half empty and home battalions are weak and cost money in other stations. The distribution is uneconomical and yet we go on building new barracks when half the old ones are only partially filled. Recruiting and training have their own needs and cannot be reconciled, each having its own establishment, It is not impossible, however, to blend the twain by the seasonal care of Depot barracks and training camps.
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