CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.
TERRITORIAL SERVICE. (To The Editor.) When a trained territorial enlist* for overseas military service has he not a right to he placed in a position where his knowledge attained may he of use to the Army to-day? How many young men, after serving in the territorials for three or four years in a particular battery or regiment, enlist for overseas service in the saiqe capacity only to find that the military authorities have posted them to an entirely different section from that which their territorial training demands, a section in which they have had no previous training whatsover. A territorial from a field bateery enlisted for overseas service and found himself placed in the infantry. Another territorial, after serving over three years in a field battery, was placed in an anti-tank regiment. These are but two of numerous examples where specialised training is apparently valueless. Why are # the territorials subjected to such disregard and why should their training be so profitless? Give the territorials a chance to justify their training. FAIR "CHANCE.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 143, 18 June 1940, Page 6
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