pack-drill

• “In England the voluntary recruit served as utterly as any Turk, except that the growth of civil decency had taken away from authority the resource of inflicting direct physical pain: but in practice, upon our less obtuse population, the effects of pack-drill or fatigues fell little short of an Oriental system.”

  Seven Pillars of Wisdom

• “So many days of sleeping in the guard tent, extra fatigues, pack-drill, and perhaps a couple of hours tied up, as an example to evil-doers.”

  A Student in Arms Second Series

• “So it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B. For "drunk and resisting the Guard.”

  Barrack Room Ballads

• “Yes, it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B. For "drunk and resisting the Guard!”

  Barrack Room Ballads

• “I saw a story in Private Mulvaney's eye; and besides, if he stayed too long at the bar, he would, I knew, qualify for more pack-drill.”

  Indian Tales

• “Now to meet an esteemed friend doing pack-drill outside the guardroom is embarrassing, especially if you happen to be walking with his Commanding Officer.”

  Indian Tales

• “Mulvaney was doing pack-drill -- was compelled, that is to say, to walk up and down for certain hours in full marching order, with rifle, bayonet, ammunition, knapsack, and overcoat.”

  Indian Tales

• “O it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B. For "drunk and resisting the Guard!”

  Verses 1889-1896

• “And so two of them, done with pack-drill, goose-step, half rations and forced marches, lay under the straw the priests had heaped upon them.”

  With the Allies

• “YesItsMe also has some stuff for Abergavenny showing a summary of who we've helped (no names, no pack-drill, just x number of families sent on holiday, x number of repossessions prevented, that kind of thing).”

  Army Rumour Service

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