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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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British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
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Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant South Lancashire Regiment
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British Army 306556 Corporal Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Philip F Shacklock -
Born 1893
Died 1915
British Army 2497 Private Lincolnshire Regiment
British Army 2497 Lance Corporal Lincolnshire Regiment
More about Harold Shillaker -
British Army Second Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment
British Army Captain Attached Royal Flying Corps
More about Thomas Stanley Roadley -
Born 1891
Died 1915
British Army Second Lieutenant York and Lancaster Regiment
More about George Harold Highfield -
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)
More about Kingsley Vale Weston -
Born 1898
Died 1918
British Army 302056 Private Royal Scots
More about Leslie Ewart Herrod -
Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment attached Royal Flying Corps
British Army Captain South Staffordshire Regiment attached Royal Flying Corps 57th Sqadron
More about Cecil Dunbar Hutchinson -
Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant General List
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 23
More about Charles Chesterfield Cheatle -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 4143 Private Gordon Highlanders 9th gordon highland Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant West Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
More about George Harold Greaves -
Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army S3196 Corporal Rifle Brigade
More about Charles Frank Clarke -
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Leicestershire Regiment
More about Frank Farmer Hind -
British Army Temporary Captain Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about James Percival Hodgkinson -
Died 1915
British Army Second Lieutenant King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 11 Battalion
More about Christopher Ernest Atherley -
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Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
British Army Second Lieutenant King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 9th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
More about John Joseph Fritz Oldershaw -
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Albert Leslie Palmer -
Died 1919
British Army 31154 Private Hampshire Regiment
British Army 41044 Private Bedfordshire Regiment
More about Ernest W Passmore