Sentence:  I and the other "<WSD>Johns</WSD>," as I soon discovered all new-comers at Sandhurst were, and are still, styled, although at the time I was unconscious of it, managed to troop in after the A company, but although not two minutes after them, found all the different messes already seated and hard at work. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A new recruit at (Royal Military Academy Sandhurst).