Until Properly Relieved

[pecunium]

Until Properly Relieved, originally uploaded by pecunium.

This was, "backstage" at Ft. George, which is both an historical monument (built after the Battle of Culloden, to keep the French from being able to support a future rising of the clans), and a working installation.

He was just coming off a trick on guard duty, in the public eye. I believe he's fishing for a cigarette

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

That musket is different enough from the current generation that they'd pretty well have to learn some specific drill. Might not be fully from a period drillbook. I've seen references to British Army drill changing from a column of threes to a column of fours at some time in the 1930s, and I doubt there's be any point in tracking that sort of change.

Also, there were some major changes in the basic style of drill. The prominent foot stamping you see at parades such as Trooping the Colour didn't appear until the 1920s, and the swing of the soldier's arm was also a 20th Century introduction.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I think (from descriptions, the stamp is adopted from the Royal Marines; who were famoush for the, "Stomp, and clash of muskets" when piping someone aboard, so the implication was they beat the butt, and the foot.

I know that, no matter how I tried to pick it up when I was drilling with the Territorial Army, it was so simple that (like the jitterbug) it plum evaded me. The Canadians, however, did adopt it; making me the only one in ranks who didn't do it.