Fonning The Company
Below is the text taken from Gilham's School of the Company. Article 1V.216 explains the proper way to form your company by the left flank.
FALL IN - COMPANY
The corporals and privates fall in at ORDER ARMS in one rank facing right, dressing on the right hand corporal in order of height, the tallest on the right.
FRONT
The second sergeant places himself on the left of the company as its Left Guide.
IN TWO RANKS, FORM COMPANY
LEFT FACE-MARCH
On LEFT FACE, the whole company faces to the left, except the left guide and the man on the left, who stand fast.
On MARCH, the whole of the men who have faced to the left, step off together; the second man, counting from the left, places himself in the rear rank, behind the man next to the left guide, and faces to the front; the two following men will, in like manner, on closing up, form the next file, the third man in the front, and the fourth in the rear rank behind him, and all the other
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