As part of their season "Sit Back and Listen: Composers who Scored for Film," the Imperial War Museum in London are showing this rare documentary all this week at their excellent museum cinema. The film's main claim to fame is that it was the first ever score by film music legend 'Clifton Parker'(qv) who in later years would score more expensive war classics such as _Sink the Bismarck!(1960)_(qv). Depicting the battle training of a group of Canadian soldiers, this little short is standard Ministry of Information propaganda of the time, although it has the advantage of the Canadian rookies acting slightly better than the usual bad amateurs we see in these why-we-fight efforts. Parker's first score has its moments and is conducted by the ever-present 'Muir Mathieson'(qv) who indeed went on to conduct Parker's last score 24 years later.