The formal name was Practice Number 22, Rapid Fire, in the Musketry Regulations of 1909. Fifteen aimed rounds in one minute into a target at three hundred yards, and every regular in the British Army had to pass it. The SMLE's short, smooth, rear-locking bolt was built to let him. At Mons in August 1914 the German infantry advancing on the British line reported that they were under machine-gun fire. They were not. A BEF battalion had two machine guns; everything else coming at them was men doing Practice Number 22. The standing record is supposed to be Sergeant-Instructor Snoxall's thirty-eight hits in a minute, though almost no evidence for it survives.

He is bareheaded, which is the point — the cap is up in his right hand and he is waving it at someone. Otherwise he carries what the man in full kit carries: 1908 webbing, the SMLE slung muzzle-up, haversack, water bottle, entrenching tool. This is the figure for the moment before all of the above — the column going down the road, still cheerful, nobody having yet done the marching or the shooting. In a diorama he falls in beside the full-kit figure and answers the veteran's handshake across the base. The German infantry of 1914 were doing the same thing on the same roads, going the other way.

W. Britain model 23067. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure marching on a sculpted groundwork base. Supplied in a clamshell pack.