When marching in ordinary quick time a soldier is supposed to take 120 paces, each 30 inches in length, in one minute. This is equal to 100 yards per minute, or 3 miles 720 yards per hour. Hence, with due allowance for halts, troops marching from one place to another should maintain an average rate of progression of about three miles an hour; but in practice this pace is frequently exceeded. When moving at the “ double ” soldiers should take 165 paces of 33 inches in a minute, covering rather more than 5 miles in an hour.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 670, 25 January 1933, Page 10
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