Berkshire Yeomanry (Hungerford)
…3/1st Formed as a Third-Line training unit in 1915. Remained in United Kingdom until July 1917, when absorbed into 6th Reserve Cavalry Regiment. Links Other regiments of Yeomanry Regimental museum…
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2nd Canadian Division
…2nd Division sailed in May 1915 and arrived in England shortly afterward. It completed training at Shorncliffe and crossed to France 15-18 September 1915. Thereafter the Division fought in many…
Norfolk Yeomanry (The King’s Own Royal Regiment)
…a Third-Line training unit in 1915. Early 1917: disbanded, with personnel going to 2/1st and to 4th Reserve Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. In the 1917 renumbering of the Territorials,…
Procedure for call-up under the Military Service Act
…time all legally eligible men not exempted were deemed to have passed into the army reserve. It was not necessary to attest these men but their basic details had to…
63rd (Royal Naval) Division
The history of 63rd (Royal Naval) Division 1914 At the declaration of the war on 4 August 1914, there was a surplus of some 20-30,000 men of the reserves of…
CCLXXXV, CCLXXXVI and CCLXXXVI Brigades of the Royal Field Artillery
These units were raised in September 1914 as reserves (“second line”) to the four brigades under command of the West Lancashire Division. They were originally known as the 2/1st, 2/2nd, and 2/3rd…
37th Division
…to convert the Fourth New Army into training units and to replace 16th (Irish) Division in Second New Army led to it being “promoted” . It now became 37th Division…
Dispersal Units for demobilisation purposes 1918-1920
…overseas at Dover and Folkestone. Closed 10 September 1920. Thetford Dispersal Unit (Norfolk) Previously used as a training camp, operated as dispersal unit from 8 November 1918 to 13 March 1919….
Development of British anti-aircraft artillery in the First World War
…the outbreak of war, the Admiralty assumed responsibility for anti-aircraft defence of London and established an AA Corps of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The War Office was made responsible…
Field Companies of the Royal Engineers
…the RE Training Depot at Aldershot (mounted men) and the RE Reserve Battalion and Depot Companies at Chatham (dismounted men): Field Company Allocation to Divisions 5th 2nd Division 7th 4th…