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6. Instruction in the use of the hand grenade should form part of peace training. -

7. The impotance of communication by Telephone or other means - The buzzers on our telephones both army patterns and private patterns do not seem to stand the rough work. -

8. The great importance of care of the feet - 120 men and 1 officer have been admitted to hospital with frozen feet. Roughly 15% of the members of the Battalion in the trenches. Every effort was made to guard against this by greasing mens feet, giving them clean socks and washing feet as much as possible, but it is often very difficult to provide accommodation for this except their rest in billets. -

9. A case made of two waterproof sheets has been found reliable for keeping for carrying machine guns when not in use. -