Guard

Guard Duties

A large percentage of our time at Ganges was spent on the parade ground attending divisions and other drill sessions. Being duty guard for divisions was a memorable experience as our classes spent hours learning rifle drill (with the friendly GIs!...) and how to, for example, "Form two deep!" from three ranks, how to line up each rank before inspection (done by the right-hand marker), how to march in line and give "eyes right" without losing position, and generally how to drill in perfect time ("up, two three, over, two three, cut!" etc.) 

No doubt all classmates have fond memories of this part of our time drilling with SLR rifles. The images below show that we have a right to be proud of how smart we all looked, and how well we performed.