| When he went on the road he drew impressive crowds ranging from the subalterns at his old military college to the minister of defence himself. |
| An hour later some hilarious subalterns walked along the whole row of huts and lobbed stones on to the roofs. |
| That also enabled the young subalterns commanding the platoons to exercise better control over their men. |
| Young subalterns would, apparently, signal the start of an advance by nipping up from the trench and blootering the ball at the enemy lines. |
| While the majority were subalterns, captains were included on the basis of one in eight. |
| Then we had another suicide, one of our newly joined subalterns, which couldn't be put down to the war. |
