The company drill was hardly ever conducted by the officers, but by the colour-sergeant of the company.
Colour-sergeant, a sergeant whose duty is to guard the colours and those who carry them.
And the colour-sergeant put it all down in the big book without the ghost of a smile.
But he was not over-robust and was transferred to the Second Contingent, and rose to be a colour-sergeant in the Thirteenth.
The colour-sergeant, standing at the end of the street, whistle in hand, was in a nasty temper.
