Before receiving a commission, every soldier has a certain amount of special training and whatever non-commissioned rank he held he now becomes a cadet. In this period a soldier has his hardest and strictest training. As artillery cadets besides smartness and ordinary drills much study of mathematics and engineering has to be done. The photographs show cadets climbing the White Horse at Westbury from which they were taught observation of gun fire etc. The figure of the white Horse is cut out of the chalky hill side and is to commemorate King Alfred’s victory over the Danes. Guns frequently got in to awkward positions sinking into soft ground and so on. In order to be ready for such emergencies we were taught how to move heavy obstacles. As a final test an old naval gun was thrown into a pond and we had to get it out again.