Belated but Keen Football Topical Film Company Canadian Army
plays football against Londoners at Nunhead. Canadian Army XI
put up a good light against Londoners at Nunhead.’ The two teams
enter the playing field and the game begins, watched by a sparse
crowd. Pieces of History Overseas Training in the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wilfrid
Laurier University, Waterloo the sole object of training is to
prepare our forces for war, success in battle being constantly
held as the ultimate aim... It is the function of training to
develop the mental, moral, and physical qualities as highly as
possible in each individual, and also to inculcate by theory and
practice the methods of employing the various arms in co-
operation to the best advantage...1 As this passage
demonstrates, military instruction consisted of two fundamental
aspects: training of the individual soldier and training of
formations. When new recruits joined the service, they first
needed to learn the basic skills of soldieri