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Every battalion has its marching songs.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Battalion
Marching
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Believe
Exercise
Make Believe
Workout
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Luck
Skills
Soldier
Another
Word
Merely
Skill
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There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Journey
Travel
Charming
Irresistible
Lips
Raised
Sweet
Thirsty
Traveller
Wine
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Home
Bird
Clock
Merry
Sight
Twelve
Followed
Hour
Struck
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Distribution
Fatigue
Party
Provision
Sympathetic
Desired
Finds
Leaves
Provisions
Well-Intentioned
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The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Afternoon
Breakfast
Fourteen
Meals
Soldier
Earlier
Generally
Meal
Served
Soldiers
Stretch
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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.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
War
Army
Military
Residents
United Kingdom
Yearning
Male
Towards
Joined
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Men
Doe
Done
Electorate
Enlisted
Motive
Politician
Prove
Right Thing
Attempted
Explain
Few Men
The Right Thing
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Attention
Cutting
Immune
Momentary
Perfect
Sickness
Accident
Battalion
Claim
Come And Go
Cuts
Practically
Minor
Otherwise
Save
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Patrick Macgill / Journalist
Certain
Danger
Destruction
Goal
Impervious
Looks
Monsters
Night
Resolute
Silent
Steady
Battalion
Full
Doubly
Engine
Mission
Marching
Menacing
Monster
Onward
Restrained
Sweep
Thus
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