Hence my Hay foot straw foot post above. Most of the CW conscripts we’re farm lads and many of them were Irish. They literally didn’t know “Left” from “right” so their drill sergeants had them tie hay and straw to their ankles so they’d know how to march in cadence. Instead of “Your Left, your right, your left.” They would bark out, “Hay foot, straw foot, Hay foot” to drill the dumb bastages.