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Topical Budget 241-2: Married Mens' Call (1916)
 

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"MARRIED MENS' CALL How the first groups of married men to be called to the colours, will be trained, before they are passed as fit for the front". Group of recruits in shirt sleeves being drilled. Performing exercises. Bayonet practice. Officer explaining mechanism of a machinegun to a group of men. Practice in the trenches.