3 SEPTEMBER 1948, Page 16

SIR, —Mr. Riding in his letter on Conscript Service states that

it is "inevitable and salutary that there should be fatigues. in army life." I remember long ago placing a letter for signature before my old friend Sir William Rycroft in Constantinople. "Fatigues ? " he said, "What are fatigues ? We were never allowed to mention the word in the llth Hussars." How right he was ! The word should be abolished from the military vocabulary. It tends to make soldiers tired and bored before they start their work, which can easily be specified.—Your obedient servant, H. P. GARWOOD. 2 Sussex House, Raymond Road, S.W .19.