war-kit

Updated: May 9, 2025

There was something incongruous about this habitation of French chiteaux by British officers with their war-kit. The strangeness of it made me laugh in early days of first impressions, when I went through the rooms of one of those old historic houses, well within range of the German guns with a brigade major. It was the Chateau de Henencourt, near Albert.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told

Before sunset the regiments, all on a war-footing, had left the city." Every layman knows that a reservist cannot enter a barracks in civilian attire, and emerge five minutes later in full war-kit ready for the march. The German Imperial Chancellor affirms that not one of them had been called up before five o'clock in the afternoon of that day.

Thomas F. A. Smith - What Germany Thinks: The War as Germans see it