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THE SHORTAGE OF ARMY OFFICERS . On Feb. 1 this year the Army was 799 officers short of the establishment of 10,876 , and this included an intake of 304 from all sources in January . With a normal wastage during the next few months ...
THE SHORTAGE OF ARMY OFFICERS . On Feb. 1 this year the Army was 799 officers short of the establishment of 10,876 , and this included an intake of 304 from all sources in January . With a normal wastage during the next few months ...
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The unpopularity of the Army as a profession is not new , and the shortage of officers and men some years before the War caused anxiety at the War Office and not a little amusement in Paris , Berlin , and St Petersburg .
The unpopularity of the Army as a profession is not new , and the shortage of officers and men some years before the War caused anxiety at the War Office and not a little amusement in Paris , Berlin , and St Petersburg .
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For if we could , to - morrow , eliminate somehow the perfectly legitimate complaint of the officer who by the present system is forced out of the Army at about forty , with no job and an inadequate pension , it would not take long to ...
For if we could , to - morrow , eliminate somehow the perfectly legitimate complaint of the officer who by the present system is forced out of the Army at about forty , with no job and an inadequate pension , it would not take long to ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 270-271 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1938 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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