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Military Identities
The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People c.1870-2000
French, David Professor of History, University College London
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925803-1




CHAPTER FIVE Barrack Life
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199258031.003.0006

David French
Abstract: Regiments were not only military organizations, but were self-contained societies. The daily life of every member of the regiment was organized in such a way that he was never allowed to forget for a moment that he was part of a hierarchical society, and that he owed instant obedience to his superiors.

Keywords: social life, barracks, regiments, military,

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Introduction
CHAPTER ONE The Cardwell–Childers Reforms and the Re-creation of the Regimental System
CHAPTER TWO Recruiting for the Regiments
CHAPTER THREE Basic Training
CHAPTER FOUR The Construction of the Idea of ‘the Regiment’
CHAPTER FIVE Barrack Life
CHAPTER SIX The Leadership of the Regimental System: Officers and NCOs
CHAPTER SEVEN Deviancy and Discipline in the Regimental System
CHAPTER EIGHT The Auxiliary Regiments
CHAPTER NINE Civilians and their Regiments
CHAPTER TEN The Regimental System and the Battlefield
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Creation of the Post-modern Regimental System, c.1945–1970
CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Index
 
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