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Nottingham Officer Training Corps
Nottingham Officer Training Corps
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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Born 1896
Died 1918
British Army 2623 Private Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Cyril E Wardle -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Captain Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Harold Mason Gleave -
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers
More about Robert Ivan Doncaster -
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant York and Lancaster Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
More about George Alec Cranswick -
Born 1886
Died 1917
British Army 38270 Private Leicestershire Regiment 18th leicest Battalion
British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Harwood Albert Haddon -
Born 1898
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Robert Samuel Hallam -
Born 1893
Died 1917
British Army Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps
British Army Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
More about Stanley James Harbottle -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 58515 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army 58515 Private Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
More about Charles Edward Jennison -
British Army Second Lieutenant York and Lancaster Regiment
British Army Captain Yorkshire Regiment
More about Phillip Norman Johnson -
Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Officer Training Corps
More about Edward Lake Flewitt -
Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army Second Lieutenant Somerset Light Infantry
More about Arthur Pelham Mason -
Died 1918
British Army Lieutenant Somerset Light Infantry
More about Joseph Frank Jowers -
Born 1897
Died 1917
British Army 67176 Private Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Colin Bell -
Born 1891
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment
More about Frank Granger -
Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Donald James Clarkson -
British Army Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Arthur Duncan Swale -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Durham Light Infantry
More about George Henri Wesselhoeft -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 5358 Private Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Yorkshire Regiment
More about Robert Wilford -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 5348 Private Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Yorkshire Regiment
More about Arthur William Wilkinson -
Born 1887
Died 1915
British Army Temporary Lieutenant East Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant East Yorkshire Regiment
More about Edward Reeder