INTENSIVE COURSE
Hardening Up For
Officers
(Rec. 7.16 pan.) RUGBY, Sept. 8. In steel helmets and battle dress, with rifles slung round their necks, a dozen officers in the Midlands swam 60 yards during an intensive hardening up course which they are now undergoing. A physical training officer showed how to swim with rifle and boots slung, how experienced, strong swimmers can help along colleagues not so experienced in the water and how officers in full kit can be propelled though wrapped up a ground sheet and anti-gas cap. The hardening course is officially for officers under 40 but several over that age took part. The course includes route marches in respirators, rope climbing in full equipment bomb throwing, complicated obstacle racing, tugs-o’-war and unarmed combat apart from the normal daily physical training.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22064, 10 September 1941, Page 5
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133INTENSIVE COURSE Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22064, 10 September 1941, Page 5
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