I could not tell the General that there was not room enough in the steeple for another gun, because he probably would have looked upon such a statement as a contradiction from a second lieutenant.
You know a second lieutenant is allowed only a thousand pounds of baggage when he changes station.
We were obliged to be very economical, as Jack was a second lieutenant, the pay was small and a little in arrears, after the wedding trip and long journey out.
I went out in the service as second lieutenant, and came back a major--filled all the intermediate ranks.
He came to me and said I must act as second lieutenant.
He had a blouse coat, and looked like a second lieutenant.
And there was not a person there to help us to do this--not a line officer, not a second lieutenant.
He was a Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment.
At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Nineteenth Royal Fusiliers, known as the Public Schools Battalion, and received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, in May, 1915.
About May 24th, Second Lieutenant Bradford, with twenty-nine men, was sent up the line to garrison Border Siding, where they were picked up three days later.
The Commanding Officer deeply regrets to announce the death of Second Lieutenant J.
It would be quite bad enough to be sent to such a terrible place as Camp Supply has been represented to us, without having all this misery and mortification added, and all because Faye happens to be a second lieutenant!
Of course the vain man had placed himself in a ridiculous position, chasing around and flirting with the wife of one of his very own officers--a second lieutenant at that!
One can imagine how he must have fumed over the issuing of so much canvas, boards, and even the nails for the quarters of only a second lieutenant!
Lieutenant Merritt was promoted to the vacant position, Second Lieutenant Boyd to first lieutenant and Quartermaster Sergeant O.
Boyd, who had enlisted as a private, second lieutenant.
My position had changed during the past year from corporal in Company A to second lieutenant in Company I, and it took me some time to get accustomed to the new office.
Pretty near missed it again," he muttered, as soon as the passing officer, a second lieutenant, was out of earshot.
The looming up of a second lieutenant in their path brought three hands up in smart salute and temporarily closed further discussion of Bixton.
By "shave-tail" Jimmy referred in Army slang to a "second lieutenant.
This day, the 10th, the promotion of 1st Sergeant Dusseault, Company E, was announced and he was assigned to Company H as Second Lieutenant.
Some anxiety was felt when, at three minutes before zero, the 1st Surrey Rifles had not arrived, but thanks to Second Lieutenant Gray, the Civil Service Intelligence Officer, touch was established before zero.
About this time enemy aeroplanes were active at night, bombing transport lines and billets at Warloy, and the Civil Service Rifles lost their Acting Quartermaster, Second Lieutenant A.
At this point I have recourse to Second Lieutenant Brieu’s narrative: “On the 3rd, the rising sun finds each man in his place and the situation improved.
A second lieutenant attached to the Brigade Staff and dispatched to this part of the battlefield comes down from the fort at a run.
When I first became a Second Lieutenant I was rather proud.
Let me, then, make it perfectly plain--I am a Second Lieutenant.
McMillan as second lieutenant, in the Chengwatana expedition sent from Stillwater to prevent the Chippewas from rising and joining in the Sioux insurrection.
During the Red Bird Indian war he served as second lieutenant, and for several years was stationed at Fort Crawford.
He served three years during the Civil War as a member of Company K, Eighth Minnesota Infantry, first as a private, then as an orderly sergeant, and later as second lieutenant.
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