This is a Community to collect stories of the men who started their military training in the Nottingham OTC. The origins of the Officer Training Corps can be traced generally in the growing militarisation of early twentieth century British public discourse, and more specifically to the decision by Lord Haldane, the Secretary of State for War, in 1906 to appoint a committee to look into the problems caused by shortages of officers in the military reserve, namely the militia, the Volunteer Force, the Yeomanry, and the Reserve of Officers. The committee recommended the formation of what became known as the OTC with a senior division in the universities, and a junior division, now the Combined Cadet Force, in public schools. The intention behind the OTC was to provide basic military training for young men who would become officers in the Special Reserve of the Territorial Force. All male students were eligible to volunteer. They enrolled in the O.T.C. as cadets and undertook theoretical and practical military training alongside their college studies. The training involved instructional parades, exercises and field operations, musketry, annual training at camp, lessons in tactics, map reading and military engineering.
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British Army 5357 Private Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Captain Yorkshire Regiment
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 5348 Private Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Yorkshire Regiment
British Army 3624 Private Monmouthshire Regiment
British Army 53818 Private Welsh Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Born 1887
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers
Born 1885
Died 1917
British Army 27306 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 31927 Private Lincolnshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Lincolnshire Regiment
Born 1896
Died 1918
British Army 2623 Private Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Temporary Captain Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Born 1891
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment
Born 1890
Died 1916
British Army 58057 Farrier Staff Serjeant Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army 58057 Staff Serjeant Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army 58057 Fitter Staff Serjeant Royal Garrison Artillery
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 62751 Private Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 58515 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army 58515 Private Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army Second Lieutenant West Yorkshire attached Machine Gun Corps
British Army Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps
British Army Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant York and Lancaster Regiment
Born 1887
Died 1915
British Army Temporary Lieutenant East Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant East Yorkshire Regiment
Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army TR/5/110585 Private Training Reserve 87th Battalion
British Army 25493 Temporary Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant York and Lancaster Regiment
British Army Lieutenant York and Lancaster Regiment