Taken from the second and revised edition Rapid Training of a Company For War, was intended to be used by the junior officers in Kitchener's New Army to bring raw recruits efficiently, and in the shortest time available, to be physically fit and able to march and fight.

The author of this unofficial manual, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Percival Dearman Birchall, Royal Fusiliers, was killed in action in the attack on the Pilkem Ridge, near Ypres, 23 April 1915.