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Excerpt from With Manchesters in the East
The routine of the yearly Whitsuntide camps. At that time everything depended on.the Regular officer who acted as adjutant, and officers and men owed much to the inspiring energy of Captain (now Colonel) W. P. E. Newbigging, of the Manchesters, whose adjutancy (1902 - 1907) meant a great step in their efficiency. The letter Q, which signifies success in all examinations required by the War Office, figured in the Army List after most of our officers' names during this vivid and strenuous phase. For the rest, the pre-war period turned mainly on the fortnightly camps and occasional Regimental exercises. Salisbury Plain, the Isle of Man, Aldershot and a few North Country areas are full of memories of manoeuvre and recreation in a peaceful age. Regimental exercises filled week ends in Cheshire or the West Riding. Volunteering served many purposes in England. It kept alive in luxurious times a sense of discipline and a cultivation of endurance. Its comradeship brought classes together so closely that the easy relationship between officers and men in the Ist line Territorial unit of 1914 - 1915 was the despair of the more crusted Regular martinet. Its joyous amateurism freed it from every trace of the mental servitude which is the curse of militarism, and stimulated initiative and individuality. Long before the War, most Territorials believed in universal training, not so much on account of the German peril, which to too many Englishmen seemed a mere delusion, as on account of its social.
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