SHOULDERING IN SOLDIERING
British Troops With Lighter Packs “Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag” our Tommies used to sing, as they humped a load of 801 b., sometimes even 1001 b.. along the roads of Flanders. But now 'the soldier’s pack is to be lightened considerably. No soldier should be expected to carry more than one-third of his own weight, declares the Army Council, and so a detailed examination of equipment is being made, with a view to cutting it down to the absolute minimum. Infantrymen during the war were often brought to a standstill by rhe weight of their packs. This will not happen again. When the new equipment regulations are issued, it is expected that the load will not exceed 35 to 401 b. Future life in the Army looks like being a light-hearted affair is more ways than one.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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144SHOULDERING IN SOLDIERING Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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