The photographs of Swedish drill or “physical exercise”—as one out of a soldier’s many forms of physical exercise is formally called—do less than justice to that admirable part of our present military training. Its object is not to produce a rigid protrusion of the chest or a poker-like straightness of figure, but to give every separate muscle in the body its share of work and development, and also to give a free, easy balance and elasticity to the whole. There is still, in the New Army, so much of the tradition, or instinct, of the old one that the men will insist on “throwing a chest” when confronted with a camera on a parade ground. The value of Swedish drill is realised later when sterner conditions demand the “negotiation” of trenches, fences and breastworks. En Route. The photograph of troops disembarking in France, prior to boarding the train for “Somewhere in France,” needs no explanation. Railway accommodation is not luxurious, but a good soldier is generally a great boy, and it is an unfailing source of boyish pleasure to our troops in France to be restrained by no railway bye-laws and to be allowed to travel, in adventurous discomfort, in or on every sort of closed or open truck except an ordinary passenger carriage. In the few cases where men who are not sick or wounded travel by passenger train, there is a noticeable tendency among the gayer spirits to travel on the footboard or on the roof. A genial array of smiling faces, indicative of high spirits, may generally be observed among the troops _en route_ for the Front. THE CARE OF THE WOUNDED The first thing to do with a wounded man is to “first-aid” him. This, of course, is done chiefly to check dangerous bleeding, prevent the aggravation of unset fractures, and, generally, to enable the patient to travel with as little risk and pain as possible to a place where his injuries can be more completely dealt with. The next thing to do is to get him out of the trench. (If he has been wounded in No Man’s Land, he must first be got back into the trench.) If he can walk out, he does. During some of the chief engagements on the Somme in 1916 many seriously wounded men walked astonishing distances to dressing-stations in order to leave the ambulances and stretchers for others in still worse case. Removal from the Trench. If a man wounded in or near the firing trench cannot walk, he may have to be carried on a stretcher for a mile or more along a deep, narrow communication trench with scores of right-angled turns and a few more irregular incidental twists. It may have an uneven and slippery floor, perhaps a foot or two under water at its lower-lying parts.