The Archive · 1941

Training Season

"With our release from B! Sector duties in September, we swung right into our Training Season proper. and since that time, the company has paraded regularly every. Thursday evening, as well as on a number of Saturday afternoons for shooting, and occasional Sunday field exercises. The training has embraced every branch of our work, and, in my opinion. has been very thorough, and I can say with every confidence, that the company is fully ready for action, and capable of carrying. out the job for which it exists. One would think that with the amount of regular training the personnel of the company have been called upon to un-dargo. they might have been satisfied to let it go at that, but that is no! so; a number al them have attended an extra parade every Friday to learn more of visual signalling than is normally taught in the company. while several others have attended Sunday morning driving classes with me Transport Company.

"The N.C.O.s of the company attended a series of special classes designed to, help, them in their work. and each one of the Officers has put in a great deal of extra hard work in the interests of his Section. Added to this, is the splendid work of the various Committees. The General Committee has met regularly once a month to deal with matters relating to the general welfare of the Company, The Committee of Officers and Sergeant Major has met a number of times to consider training procedures and other matters affecting our military activities. To the Musketry Committee goes much of the credit for the excellence of our shooting and the accuracy of our musketry records. The Balloting Committee has sat in judgment on all would-be re-fruits, giving each one a comprehensive examination designed to ascertain his fitness or otherwise for our particular kind of work, and lastly there is our energetic Entertainment Committee, which not only provided such a good programme for the Saturday evening during Camp, but se tually wrote the words and music of a company song. and recorded it on a gramophone record which you may hear later this evening

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