An interesting description of physical training during the 1880s and early 1900s was given in 1932 by the now Lt Col James Baldwin Betts DSO OBE, Army Gymnastics Staff (1894-1924) who wrote ???Progressive exercises as now known were practically non-existent, for every exercise was performed on apparatus, or with dumb-bells, rifles, etc, except of course marching and hopping, physical drill, with a