We still had to march round the barrack squares and we had to be dressed correctly, with nothing dirty or out of order.
The studs, heel-plates and toe-plates, of the ox-blood red boots, designed to knock sparks out of the barrack square spent much time in the more comfortable environment of fields of Kerr's Pinks.
I stood with some others on the top barrack square and watched the northern sky alight with flames, and later found that it was Coventry burning.
They learned to put a penny in the magazine of their Lee-Enfield rifles so that the crash of rifle drill echoed across the windblown barrack squares.
Superb landscaping of the old barrack squares, including a fine fountain, creates the impression of living in a palace, and maintenance is funded through a service charge.
A hundred barrack squares filled with excited men and a hundred sergeant-majors hurried silently through the groups and succeeded in looking as if they were the repositories of the secrets of empire.
With the hospital overflowing the barrack square was used as an emergency ward and at one time there were four miles of beds in rows on the square.
Chatham Barracks was centred around the barrack square.
He was, once again, suspended, with Anis, from the pillar in the barrack square.
Driving past all those compounds and cavalry lines and barrack squares in Pakistan, one can only be shocked by the profound social division they represent.
At 6: 00 A.M. a drummer began to beat reveille in the fusiliers’ lines, echoing around the barrack squares so as to wake even Hervey in the next-door quarters.
The redcoats swung out of the barrack square and marched towards Government House.
They had to drill for hours on shadeless barrack squares in hot weather.