420 
NOTE 
ON 
ELEMENTARY SQUAD DR ILL 
IN THE SWISS ARMY, 
BY 
CAPTAIN C. S. GRAHAM, R.A. 
1. The turnings are thus taught in Switzerland. Instead of all the 
complications involved in drawing back or advancing the right or left 
foot, as the case may be, to turn to the right or right-about; the right 
toe and left heel are raised so that the right heel becomes the pivot and 
the left toe the point where the power is applied to turn the body. 
When the turning is completed the left heel is brought to the right, 
the usual position of attention being assumed. Turning to the left 
the left toe and right heel is raised, &c. 
2. The formation of fours is accomplished by oblique movements 
on the part of the even Nos. or left files, instead of square movements 
after the manner of a knight's move on a chess board. In fact a 
man gets into his new place in a way which, being the shortest, comes 
most natural to him. Time is thus saved, an important matter in the 
present day. As every man is allowed a lateral space of 24 ins.^ it 
will be found in practice that although the left files move obliquely 
they are not in the least likely to jostle the right files; a danger which 
such elaborate precautions are taken against in our drill book. 
