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Lord Kitchener's instructions are printed in such a form that

they can be kept in every soldier's Active Service Pay Book. No Army could go to war in possession of a better brief code of manly and self-respecting conduct :— " You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy. You have to perform a task which will need your courage, your energy, your patience.. . . Your duty cannot be done unless your health is sound. So keep constantly on your guard against any excesses. In this new experience you may find temptations both in wine and women. You must entirely resist both tempta- tions, and, while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you should avoid any intimacy. Do your duty bravely ; fear God; honour the King."