Boys of the 18th Battalion Learning to Pick Off Germans

Caption reads: Four companies of the 18th Battalion were taken to the Cove rifle ranges this morning under Major Milligan and Major Ingram and were given instruction in musketry by Qt-M-Sergt. Instructor Carter. Sergt. Instructor Prouse and Capt. T.J. Murphy, of the 7th Regiment, who is giving his time generously to the preparation of the men. That their work on the miniature galleries has been beneficial was made apparent when many of the recruits, practically novices at rifle practice, registered repeated “bulls.”


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