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One of seven sons of a Sheffield gardener, Arnold Loosemore enlisted in the Army on 2 January 1915 aged 18 years and 7 months. Posted to the York and Lancaster Regiment, in July 1915 he left Liverpool for the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign arriving in Suvla Bay in August 1915. Surviving this campaign and returning home, he was then trained to use ...
The men of the Sheffield City Battalion, soon to be officially the 12th (Service) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment (Sheffield), underwent their initial training at Bramall Lane cricket and football ground and in Norfolk Park. A number of retired Regular Army non-commissioned officers (NCOs) were taken on to drill the men.
Yorkshire Officers’ Training Regiment (YOTR) is a British Army regiment of the Officers’ Training Corps based in Yorkshire, Northern England. YOTR is part of the Army Reserve and is one of the largest Officers’ Training Regiments in the UK, [1] it was created in September 2011 when the Leeds University Officer Training Corps combined with Sheffield University Officer Training Corps in ...
This battery was replaced in mid-December by 421 HAA Bty of the same regiment, until it left at the end of February 1942. 478 HAA Bty, formed at 206th HAA Training Rgt from a cadre provided by 91st HAA Rgt in September, joined on 3 December, taking over two 4-gun sites at Goxhill Haven and Barrow Haven, while 270 (Wentworth) Bty was transferred ...
Somme Barracks, Sheffield is a military establishment on Glossop Road in Sheffield, England. The building is owned by the Ministry of Defence and serves as the base of the University of Sheffield Officers' Training Corps, which has been a part of the Yorkshire Officer Training Regiment since 2011. [1] It is a Grade II listed building. [2]
A judge on Thursday ordered the owner of a controversial firearms training center in Vermont arrested until he proves that parts of the 30-acre facility have been removed or demolished. The ...
Spotter and predictor operators at a 4.5-inch HAA gun site in Leeds, 20 March 1941. In June 1939, as the international situation worsened, a partial mobilisation of Anti-Aircraft Command's TA units was begun in a process known as 'couverture', whereby each unit did a month's tour of duty in rotation to man selected AA gun and searchlight positions.
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