bayonet-training

Updated: July 10, 2025

There was a smoldering passion in him which glowed in his dark eyes. He was against bayonet-training, which took the field against rifle-fire for a time. "No man in this war," he said, with a sweeping assertion, "has ever been killed by the bayonet unless he had his hands up first."

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told