Training Day at Keighley Drill Hall 2016 - Show Report
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- A private training day with members of MECo and The Dukes at War reenactment group held at Keighley Drill Hall, giving an opportunity to learn or brush up on drill out of the public gaze in the hopes of improving the ability of those involved to represent a Second World War British soldier.
A good time was had by all and we covered a lot over the course of the day, setting the ground work for further improvement and future training days.
Turning at the Halt - 00:30
Marching Wheeling and Halting - 02:37
About Turn on the March - 06:14
Slope Arms - 07:32
Order Arms - 09:03
Fixing and Unfixing Bayonets - 13:36
Present Arms - 19:45
Bren Immediate Action Drills - 24:32
Section Attack - 27:47
"You're not a flippin' American.." LOOL !
Quite!
brilliant video, well done to all involved..
+C J Campbell Thank you! Will pass that on.
I joined the Australian Army Reserve in the 1980s. Back then Battledress was dress of the day in winter. Good memories.
Those drill halls were just fantastic pieces of architecture (IMHO). Sadly I see a lot, that I knew, have now been redeveloped for big bucks no doubt: Finchley, White City, DOY, not sure about Croydon.
Nice drill hall
This was my drill hall. I trained fellow army cadets and loved it. So many great memories. We had 2 small bore ranges in the cellar.also back in the day we used to shoot the 303 a the Bren at Harksworth range near Guiseley.
Nothing quite like Hobnails on a solid surface. Exceptional video.
Cheers!
ooh i so agree, but wernt they a bit dicey !!!!!! lol i remember doing a drill comp when i was an Air Cadet, we wore hobs, the other teams didnt, we won , but boy were we knackered after trying to keep our balance lol
Absolutely lovely to see the Bren drill. Thanks for this!
The poor floor. Ammo boots and wooden floors, really don't mix. What would really help with the rifle drill is having the squad shout the timing as they do it. Generations of squaddies have been trained that way.
What I find interesting about how the pre 60s drill seems to take into account how little grip ammo boots have. More sliding of the foot and not lifting them high. Compared to modern drill. Where the feet and legs generally move higher. You all would be in for a good beasting for not digging your heels in while marching, by a modern CSM. Granted, you would murder the floor even more in ammo boots.
I used the No $ and Bren a lot in the Army cadets. I hade the "dubious" pleasure of getting to fire off 10,000 rounds between five, through a Bren at the end of one annual camp. Dubious, as its fun until your 25th mag refill. Young, tender fingers were really hurting by then.
As an aside. Use the heel of the hand to hit the Bren mag release as you hand continues forward to wrap around the mag. With a little practice. You will become very quick and smooth on the mag changes.
I'm in 2431 squadron air cadets and we have break in one of the corners and I vividly remember cleaning up Pringles 😁
Someone's a messy eater then?
Tell me about it someone basically poured the whole tin!
The SD cap makes you look rather professional for some reason haha~
Could've swung the arms a bit higher tho, parallel to the ground is the way to go~
+BSM Iron (Panzer) Lawl Well thank you! The arm height thing is a somewhat debated topic, certainly Trooping the Colour and other swanky parades show the arms shoulder high even during this period but for general square bashing and less important parades belt high (roughly parallel with the rifle at the slope) seems to be most common in period footage. It seems to have been during the '50s and into the '60s that shoulder high at all times became prevalent, followed by the stamping which was largely a result of the less acoustic rubber-soled DMS boot. The Guards, being Guards, of course took to the stamping whether in hobnails or not and the arm swing and stamp have become more and more exaggerated over the years.
Rifleman Moore I see, well you did your rifle drill quite nicely~ Any photos being bunged onto deviantart?
+BSM Iron (Panzer) Lawl I'm afraid I didn't take any stills myself. I have to say having this footage has been very useful, noticed when I'm sloping arms I don't press the rifle into the shoulder enough on the first movement and I need to keep my shoulders still whilst doing it, same when lifting the rifle off the shoulder, I have a tendency to use the shoulder the shrug the rifle off. Can see many areas for improvement which was part of the idea!
Is it hard to bring up the rifle from the ground whilst catching it with the left hand? I feel as if I would miss and drop the thing~
+ BSM Iron (Panzer) Lawl It's fine with practice.
Love that noise when the working parts are sent forward.
Wtf get on the drill square.
Good video me ad my mate want to reenact Suffolk Reg
+planes124 Hope this is of use when doing drill!
Their right dress hurts me so much.
good video sir...
Many thanks!
Great clip. when I learnt Drill we had to "Right-Dress" by raising our left arm (SLR time period) so that when we did it with Arms (SLR) at the Order Arms / Attention (SLR at the right side) with Bayonets fixed, when we received 'Eyes-Front" we lowered the left hand to the the left side / attention (and turned our heads to the front). You had to be careful not to bring you left hand down on the Bayonet of the soldier to your left. I mention this as I was surprised when I saw 'Right-Dress" being done raising and using the right arm (I had assumed it was always the left arm), etc.
Refering to the 1935 All Arms Drill Manual when under instruction in 'Squad Drill with Intervals' a squad of men without arms may be formed up in a single rank and when the order 'Right Dress' is given all except the right-hand man will look to their right and extend the right arm to pick up their dressing. However when under arms men are to fall in with rifles at the order and dress to the right without the use of the right arm, this form of dressing is first taught without arms ('Squad Drill in Single Rank') once 'Squad Drill with Intervals' is perfected.
Hi, thanks for the further info. I don't know how old our drill is, whether Pre-War or Post-War, interesting nonetheless, kind regards.
New drill was generally introduced with the L1A1 SLR as it was a very different beast to the Lee Enfield in terms carrying it and swinging it around!
Hi, makes sense. When we changed to the F88 AUSTEYR (AU is for Australia) we had to learn new Ceremonial Rifle Drill, in our case the F88 is slung / supported with the sling going over the left shoulder, across the body front & rear, the F88 being "suspended" on the right side, muzzle down, the right hand holding the front grip as at the Attention position. This meant no more "Shoulder-Arms" / "Order-Arms", "Fix-Unfix Bayonets", "Rest on Arms - Reverse" (Funeral Drill) where the SLR muzzle was rested on the left boot - toe, plus not even wearing a Bayonet-Scabbard at all. No doubt similar to what guys went through when changing to the L85 / SA80, regards.
Definitely so, although the SA80 does include a bayonet. Otherwise as you say the drill changed markedly. The present is quite similar though.