THE ARTISTS' RIFLES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13730, 19 March 1915, Page 2

THE ARTISTS' RIFLES.

Those who are aware that the Artists' Rifles were among the first of tho Territorial Regiments to send a battalion to the front will have looked in vain for any reference in despatches to the fortunes of the famous corps.

That is due to the fact that the Artistu have been content to sink their identity for the good of the service of the country.

Since they arrived at "somewhere io France." they have become a "School of Instruction," or, in other words, an officers' training corps. The non-coms, and the privates have been readily filling gaps in the commissioned ranks, so that at the present time the King's Company of the Grenadiers, the Coldstream Guards, the Royal Scots, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the Gordon Highlanders, the Bedfords, and other crack regiments possess subalterns who not long since were Territorial

Tommies

The transformation has been made passible by the careful training which the rank and file of the "Artists" have

ahvavs received

They are now sending a hundred men monthly as drafts to the Imperial Service Battalion, and a 2nd Reserve Battalion is being raised.

There is a splendid opportunity for young men from public schools or universities, or those having a profession, to qualify as soon as may be for a commission, and the prospect is open not only to men in London but in the provinces also —English paper.