'1st. Battn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. | Drill Programme.' [ Printed card with autograph note by Scovell stating authorship. ]

Author: 
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [ Lieut-Col. G. J. S. Scovell [ George Julian Selwyn Scovell ] (1881-1948), deputy Director-General of Recruiting, 1918; General Secretary of National Liberal Party ]
Publication details: 
Without date or place, but dated by Scovell to 1910.
£125.00
SKU: 17644

Printed on both sides of a 15 x 11 cm piece of card. In good condition, lightly-aged. Unsigned autograph note by Scovell on reverse: 'Drawn up by me when adjt. 1910.' Divided into four sections: 'Without Arms' (with brief notes on: Turns; Marching; Marking Time; Stepping backward, forward and side step; Double Marching; Marching Past; Slow March; Diagonal March; Dressing; Saluting; Reporting; Changing Direction; Forming), 'With Canes', 'With Rifle' (Saluting; Funeral Exercises; Feue de joie; Piling Arms; Changing Arms; Short Traill [sic]; Grounding of Arms; Presenting Arms; Port Arms; Sloping Arms Individually) and 'With Bayonets Fixed' (Presenting Arms; Marching; Fixing Bayonets; Unfixing Bayonets; Fugle Man; Slow Marching; Opening out of Ranks for Street Lining; Changing Arms and Stand at Ease'). No other copy traced, either in the Imperial War Museum, or on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC. From the Scovell papers, others being separately listed.