OUT OF ACTION. —The British Army has recently been engaged on the biggest manoeuvres ever known in its history. The gruelling tests through which the men taking part passed called for the utmost endurance, and they passed all the reserve of strength which their training has built up. All over the South of England these exercises raged between two commands day and night unceasingly, and the men experienced war conditions in very realistic form. The photo shows invading troops being taken prisoner and taken by lorries from the field of action, a tommy gun keeping them in orde r.
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Evening Star, Issue 24056, 1 December 1941, Page 9
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99OUT OF ACTION.—The British Army has recently been engaged on the biggest manoeuvres ever known in its history. The gruelling tests through which the men taking part passed called for the utmost endurance, and they passed all the reserve of strength which their training has built up. All over the South of England these exercises raged between two commands day and night unceasingly, and the men experienced war conditions in very realistic form. The photo shows invading troops being taken prisoner and taken by lorries from the field of action, a tommy gun keeping them in orde r. Evening Star, Issue 24056, 1 December 1941, Page 9
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