Photograph by Paul Thompson 



A GOODBYE KISS 



"Just that break with his home community is the hardest trial the new selected man has 

 to bear. In a night he is torn from his family, his father, his mother, often his wife and 

 children, and translated to an environment at once strange and difficult. He arrives in the 

 cantonment a prey to acute homesickness. Once safely past this term of trial, and the new 

 soldier finds life is a succession of interesting and instructive movements." 



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