Corporals are confined to barracks for slight breaches of discipline. For failing to answer the evening call, bad language,[11] disobedience, quarrels, drunkenness, Corporals are sent to the Salle de Police. For more serious faults, especially when on duty, Corporals are sent to prison.
TROOPERS.
The punishments inflicted on troopers are:
(a) Extra work.
(b) Inspection with the guard parade.
(c) Confinement to barracks.
(d) Salle de Police.
(e) Prison.
(f) Cells (solitary confinement).
Punishments (a), (b), (c) were in my time very seldom inflicted in a cavalry regiment, being regarded as too mild for a trooper and only fit for men in the line. I am told that this is still the case.
| Right of Punishment by— | ||||
| Nature of | Corporals. | Sergeants | Sergeant- | Adjudant, |
| Punishments | and | major | Sub-lieut. | |
| given to | Sergeant- | in his | and | |
| Troopers. | major. | Squadron. | Lieuts. | |
| Days. | Days. | Days. | Days. | |
| (c) | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 |
| (d) | — | — | — | 4 |
| (e) | — | — | — | — |
| (f) | — | — | — | — |
| Right of Punishment by— | ||||
| Nature of | Captains. | Field | Colonel. | |
| Punishments | Officers | |||
| given to | and | |||
| Troopers. | Captains | |||
| commanding | ||||
| a Squadron. | ||||
| Days. | Days. | Days. | ||
| (c) | 15 | 30 | 30 | |
| (d) | 8 | 15 | 30 | |
| (e) | — | 8 | 15 | |
| (f) | — | — | 8 | |
(Until General Boulanger became Minister of War Corporals could give a trooper two days' Salle de Police; a Sergeant could inflict four days, a Sergeant-major eight days, and an Adjudant fifteen days, or four days' prison.)
Troopers confined to barracks are employed in doing the hardest and dirtiest manual work. They take part in every drill and duty besides. Those sent to the Salle de Police are kept at night in the lock-up. Troopers sent to prison do no duty, but undergo special punishment drill for three hours in the morning and three hours at night. They are deprived of pay, of sugar, and of coffee.
Troopers in the cells are kept in confinement day and night. Only a blanket without bedding is allowed to the troopers in prison or in the cells.