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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 1894
Died 1917
British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment
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Born 1893
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers
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Born 1893
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
British Army Captain Royal Field Artillery 4th north midland Brigade
British Army Captain Royal Field Artillery
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Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Lincolnshire Regiment
British Army Captain Lincolnshire Regiment
More about William Henry Rushton -
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about William Arthur Powell -
British Army Temporary Captain Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Neville Herbert Pratt -
Born 1892
Died 1917
British Army 35262 Private Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army 27353 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 10th Battalion.
More about Roland Frederick Huyton -
British Army Temporary Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Edward Cecil Jackson -
Born 1893
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps
British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
More about Lionel Ernest Schloss -
Born 1899
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC)
More about Herbert Macintosh Dickinson -
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Born 1891
Died 1916
British Army Private Royal Fusiliers 6th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Robin Hood (Nottingham and Derbyshire Regiment) 7th Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment 7th Battalion
More about John Macpherson -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Captain Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Thomas Henry Leman -
Born 1889
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Rifle Brigade
British Army Lieutenant Temporary Captain Rifle Brigade
British Army Captain Rifle Brigade
More about Jacob Hardy Smith -
Born 1892
Died 1918
British Army Captain Tank Corps
British Army Major Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 7th Battalion
More about Basil Terah Hooley -
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 113738 Acting Corporal Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army 113738 Corporal Royal Garrison Artillery
More about Henry Abell -
British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about John Baker Keating -
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army Lieutenant West Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
More about Charles Edward Jarvis -
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Attached Lincolnshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Lincolnshire Regiment
More about Clarence Gordon Shaw -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant 5th York and Lancaster Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant York and Lancaster Regiment
British Army Temporary Lieutenant 5th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment (Territorial Force)
More about Eustace Shipstone Cattle