One former cadet, Mrs P, remembered that during her time at Dartmouth during the 1940s it was a daily routine for women cadets to be beaten on their bottoms. She said that once, while attending an arms drill, she carelessly discharged a clip of live ammunition, an action that could have had some very serious consequences.

 

For that incident she was hauled up before the commanding officer who gave her thirty strokes of the cane on her bottom and she said that she could not sit down for five days.

 

Mrs B, who served around the same time, said that she was an insubordinate girl and was constantly in trouble, but by some miracle managed to avoid a CO’s thirty.