For soldiers
Feb. 12th, 2013 09:53 pmThe Soldier's Own Diary was a pocket diary, with two pages for every week. The front pages contained useful information for soldiers. (There's an example of 1918 edition here) The diary part had a useful tips and interest trivia at the bottom of pair of pages. I've pinched some of these from a 1917 diary, and included them below:
HORSES LEFT UNATTENDED
When there is no scout handy to attend to his horse a solider makes use of clever, though a simple device. The reins are brought over the horse's head and pushed under the saddle girth, and then drawn out again. The "ribbons" are then taken back and passed through in the form shown in sketch. The result of this knot is that when the horse tried to move his head forward the reins hold him in, as though someone was holding him and he stands still.
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HORSES LEFT UNATTENDED
When there is no scout handy to attend to his horse a solider makes use of clever, though a simple device. The reins are brought over the horse's head and pushed under the saddle girth, and then drawn out again. The "ribbons" are then taken back and passed through in the form shown in sketch. The result of this knot is that when the horse tried to move his head forward the reins hold him in, as though someone was holding him and he stands still.
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