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Posted by "Peter deVries" <rsm_kes_cc254@hotmail.com> on Sat, 09 Dec 2000 18:31:27
Did anyone else hear that QL3 is being cut down to 26 days? Thats the story
in my Battalion anyway. I just want to know how you can properly train a
soldier, even though they are reserve, in 26 days. Has anyone else heard
this news?
>From: m.oleary@ns.sympatico.ca Mike Oleary
>Reply-To: army-list@CdnArmy.ca
>To:
>Subject: The Loyal Toast
>Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 23:10:45 -0500
>
>"The custom which necessitated every officer drinking His Majesty the
>King‘s health in port is no longer enforced as long as an officer‘s glass
>is filled, to enable him to join in the toast, it is immaterial whether it
>contains port, sherry or water." - Customs of the Service Advice to those
>newly commissioned by A.H.S., 1939
>
>And I believe the connection between toasts with water and King George V
>was based on the Royal Family having a "dry" household throughout the war.
>IIRC
>
>Mike
>
>The Regimental Rogue
>http://regimentalrigue.tripod.com
>2001 Canadian Military History Calendar
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ian Edwards
> To: army-list@CdnArmy.ca
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Men‘s‘ Mess Dinner
> I always believed that a toast, particularly the Loyal toast, had to be
>drunk with a spirit port or sometimes madeira is acceptable but recently
>an old comrade has tried to convince me that a toast may be drunk with
>water, this permission having been given by King George V. All I know is
>that when the Loyal toast is given, the member should be given the option
>of wine or water, never both, in case the respondent to the toast is a
>Jacobite follower of Bonnie Prince Charlie as are/were many Highlanders
>who would secretly toast BP Chas by passing their wine glass over top of
>the water glass to toast BP Charlie "over the water - in exile in France".
>
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Did anyone else hear that QL3 is being cut down to 26 days? Thats the story
in my Battalion anyway. I just want to know how you can properly train a
soldier, even though they are reserve, in 26 days. Has anyone else heard
this news?
>From: m.oleary@ns.sympatico.ca Mike Oleary
>Reply-To: army-list@CdnArmy.ca
>To:
>Subject: The Loyal Toast
>Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 23:10:45 -0500
>
>"The custom which necessitated every officer drinking His Majesty the
>King‘s health in port is no longer enforced as long as an officer‘s glass
>is filled, to enable him to join in the toast, it is immaterial whether it
>contains port, sherry or water." - Customs of the Service Advice to those
>newly commissioned by A.H.S., 1939
>
>And I believe the connection between toasts with water and King George V
>was based on the Royal Family having a "dry" household throughout the war.
>IIRC
>
>Mike
>
>The Regimental Rogue
>http://regimentalrigue.tripod.com
>2001 Canadian Military History Calendar
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ian Edwards
> To: army-list@CdnArmy.ca
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Men‘s‘ Mess Dinner
> I always believed that a toast, particularly the Loyal toast, had to be
>drunk with a spirit port or sometimes madeira is acceptable but recently
>an old comrade has tried to convince me that a toast may be drunk with
>water, this permission having been given by King George V. All I know is
>that when the Loyal toast is given, the member should be given the option
>of wine or water, never both, in case the respondent to the toast is a
>Jacobite follower of Bonnie Prince Charlie as are/were many Highlanders
>who would secretly toast BP Chas by passing their wine glass over top of
>the water glass to toast BP Charlie "over the water - in exile in France".
>
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