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British Armed Forces 3 September 1939 ALDERSHOT COMMAND: HQ Aldershot From River Luddon where crossed by the Southern Railway at Luddon Bridge (south-east of Reading) along the railway through Wokingham, Brackwall and Ascot to Sunningdale: thence the eastern boundaries of the parishes of Chotham and Horsell to the railway at Woking; thence southward along the railway (omitting the portions of the parishes of Guildford and Artington to the west of the railway and the three small portions of Sussex lying to the north of the railway) to Liss, ; thence northward along the road leading to Reading, through Selbourne, Alton, and Odiham (but inclusive of the portions of the parishes of Alton and Chawton lying west of that road) to Swallowfield thence along the River Luddon to Luddon Bridge. FIELD TROOPS (REGULAR) 1st Anti-Aircraft Brigade: HQ Blackdown 6th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA: Blackdown 3rd, 12th, 15th Anti-Aircraft Batteries, RA 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, RA: Blackdown 1st Anti-Aircraft Battalion, RE: Blackdown A, B Anti-Aircraft Companies, RE 1st, 2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade Signals, RCS: Blackdown 1st Army Tank Brigade: HQ Aldershot 4th Royal Tank Regiment: Farnborough 7th Royal Tank Regiment: Catterick Camp - Located in Northern Command 8th Royal Tank Regiment: Perham Down - Located in Southern Command 1st Infantry Division: HQ Aldershot 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own): Shorncliffe 2nd Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment M-G: Bordon 2nd Field Regiment, RA: Bordon (Note: Reorganized late Sept. 1939 with two btrys) 35th, 42nd, 53rd, 87th Field Batteries, RA 19th Field Regiment, RA: Bordon 29th/97th, 39th/96th Field Batteries, RA 24th Field Regiment, RA: Aldershot 22nd/56th, 50th/70th Field Batteries 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, RA: Aldershot 'Q', 'Y', 'Z', 'BB' Anti-Tank Batteries, RA 17th, 23rd, 26th Field Companies, RE: Aldershot 6th Field Park Company, RE: Aldershot 1st Divisional Signals, RCS: Aldershot 1st Infantry Brigade (Guards): HQ Aldershot 3rd Battalion, The Grenadier Guards: Aldershot 2nd Battalion, The Coldstream Guards: Aldershot 2nd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment: Aldershot 1st Infantry Brigade (Guards) Anti-Tank Company: Aldershot 1 2nd Infantry Brigade: HQ Aldershot 1st Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire): Aldershot 2nd Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's): Aldershot 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders: Aldershot 2nd Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company: Aldershot 3rd Infantry Brigade: HQ Bordon 1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding): Bordon 2nd Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment): Bordon 1st Battalion, The King's Shropshire Regiment: Bordon 3rd Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company: Bordon 2nd Infantry Division: HQ Aldershot 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards: Aldershot 2nd Battalion, The Manchester Regiment M-G: Aldershot 10th Field Regiment, RA: Deepcut 30th/46th, 51st/54th Field Batteries, RA 16th Field Regiment, RA: Ewshott 27th/72nd, 34th/86th Field Batteries, RA 18th Field Regiment, RA: Deepcut 59th/93rd, 94th/95th Field Batteries, RA 13th Anti-Tank Regiment, RA: Aldershot 2nd, 8th, 44th, 82nd Anti-Tank Batteries, RA 5th, 11th, 38th Field Companies, RE: Aldershot 21st Field Park Company, RE: Aldershot 2nd Divisional Signals, RCS: Aldershot 4th Infantry Brigade: HQ Aldershot 1st Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment): Aldershot 2nd Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment: Oxney 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment: Aldershot 4th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company: Aldershot 5th Infantry Brigade: HQ Aldershot 2nd Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment: Aldershot 2nd Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment: Aldershot 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders: Aldershot 5th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company: Aldershot 6th Infantry Brigade: HQ Blackdown 1st Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: Blackdown 1st Battalion, The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's): Blackdown 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry: Woking 6th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company: Blackdown OTHER REGULAR TROOPS IN THE COMMAND Regular Troops in the Command 1st King's Dragoon Guards: Aldershot (Attached to 1st Light Armoured Brigade) 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's): Aldershot 2nd Royal Tank Regiment: Farnborough (Attached to 1st Heavy Armoured Brigade) The Mechanized Experimental Establishment: Farnborough 2nd Medium Regiment, RA: Longmoor 4th/7th, 8th/12th Medium Batteries, RA 1st Field Squadron, RE: Aldershot 8th, 10th Railway Companies, RE: Longmoor RHQ and Motor Transport Depot, RE: Aldershot The Railway Training Centre, RE: Longmoor 'A' Corps Signals, RCS: Aldershot No. 2 Company, GHQ Signals, RCS: Aldershot No. 1 Signal Troop, 1st Armoured Divisional Signals, RCS: Aldershot Nos. 1, 3, 6, 11 Artillery Signal Sections, RCS: Aldershot 4th Tank Signal Section, RCS: Aldershot Aldershot Command Signals, RCS: Aldershot Militia in the Command 5th, 6th Anti-Aircraft Depots, RA: Arborfield</PRE> EASTERN COMMAND The Counties: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex (except Purfleet and Rainham Rifle Ranges; and (when occupied by the Foot Guards) the Guard's Barracks at Warley), Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Middlesex, Kent, Sussex, and Surrey (Less portions in Aldershot Command and London District and Woolwich (exclusive of the Territorial Army Troops quartered there). Field Troops (Regular) 4th Infantry Division: HQ Colchester 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards: Colchester 2nd Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Machine Gun: Dover 17th Field Regiment, RA: Woolwich 10th/26th, 13th/92nd Field Batteries, RA 22nd Field Regiment, RA: Shorncliffe 32nd/33rd, 36th/55th Field Batteries, RA 30th Field Regiment, RA: Colchester 104th/111th, 112th/117th Field Batteries, RA 14th Anti-Tank Regiment, RA: Colchester 38th, 61st, 68th, 88th Anti-Tank Batteries, RA 7th, 9th Field Companies, RE: Shorncliffe 59th Field Company, RE: Canterbury 18th Field Park Company, RE: Colchester 4th Divisional Signals, RCS: Colchester 10th Infantry Brigade: HQ Shorncliffe 2nd Battalion, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment: Gravesend 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry: Shorncliffe 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment: Shorncliffe 3 10th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company: Shorncliffe 11th Infantry Brigade: HQ Colchester 2nd Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers: Colchester 1st Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment: Colchester 1st Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry: Colchester 11th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company: Colchester 12th Infantry Brigade: HQ Dover 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment): Dover 1st Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers): Dover 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment): Dover 12th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company: Dover OTHER REGULAR TROOPS IN THE COMMAND Regular Troops in the Command 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own): Shorncliffe (Attached to 1st Infantry Division) 17th/21st Lancers: Colchester 2nd Battalion, The Essex Regiment: Brentwood 27th Field Regiment, RA: Colchester 21st/24th, 37th/47th Field Batteries, RA 32nd Field Regiment, RA: Brighton 107th/121st, 115th/120th Field Batteries, RA 5th Medium Regiment, RA: Shoeburyness 5th/17th, 20th/21st Medium Batteries, RA 2nd Heavy Regiment, RA: Shoeburyness 1st, 8th, 17th, 26th Heavy Batteries, RA Detachment, The Survey Battalion, RE: London The Signal Experimental Establishment, RCS: Woolwich Nos. 8, 10, 13 Artillery Signal Sections, RCS: Canterbury Eastern Command Signals, RCS: London Royal Artillery Fixed Defences, Eastern Ports: HQ Sheerness Dover Fire Command: Dover Thames Fire Command (21st Heavy Battery, RA): Shoeburyness Medway Fire Command: Sheerness Harwich Fire Command: Felixstowe Militia in the Command 1st Infantry Training Group: Colchester 2nd Infantry Training Group: Lydd Depot, Non-Combatant Labour Corps: Colchester EAST ANGLIA AREA: HQ The Barracks, Hertford Counties: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire less the following: (i) Colchester - a 4th Infantry Division station (ii) Purfleet and Rainham Rifle Range, and Warley Barracks (when occupied by the Guards) - All under London District (iii) That portion of Essex in Chatham Area Regular Infantry Depots in the Area The Royal Norfolk Regiment: Norwich The Suffolk Regiment: Bury St. Edmunds The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment: Bedford The Essex Regiment: Warley The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own): Mill Hill Territorial Army Divisions and Brigades in the Area 54th (East Anglia) Infantry Division: HQ The Barracks, Hertford HQ Royal Artillery: The Barracks, Hertford 85th (East Anglian) Field Regiment, R.A. (T.A.) HQ, 337th (Essex) Btry: Stratford 338th (Essex) Btry: Romford 86th (East Anglian)(Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, R.A. (T.A.) HQ, 342nd (Hertford) Btry: Hertford 341st (St. Albans) Btry: St. Albans 134th Field Regiment, R.A. (T.A.) HQ, 213th (Essex) Btry: Stratford, E. 15 340th (Essex) Btry: Grays 55th (Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, R.A. (T.A.) HQ, 220th (Norfolk Yeomanry) btry: Swaffham 217th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Btry: Bury St. Edmunds 218th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Btry: St. Peters, Lowestoft 219th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Btry: Norwich HQ Royal Engineers: Ashburnham Road, Bedford 248th (East Anglia) Field Company, RE: Bedford (Attached to 3rd Infantry Division) 249th (East Anglia) Field Company, RE: Luton 286th Field Company,
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    Centre for First World War Studies THE TERRITORIAL FORCE IN STAFFORDSHIRE 1908-1915 by ANDREW THORNTON A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the degree of MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY June 2004 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS During the course of research and writing up my thesis, I have received invaluable assistance and support from several individuals and organisations. First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor, Dr John Bourne, for supporting me during my studies. After a break of nearly a decade between completing my first degree and researching and writing this thesis, the experience has been daunting at times, but his patience and understanding have enabled me to finally complete my work. I would also like to thank Dr. Anthony Ingold, who has given constant advice and encouragement during my period of study. He too helped guide me through the process of writing my thesis, proof-reading my early drafts and often giving me a much-needed push to complete my chapters. Jeff Elson, who has passed on to me his extensive knowledge on the South and North Staffordshire Regiments over the years, also provided valuable advice and assistance during my research.