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The Territorial Army (TA) is a military reserve force composed of part-time volunteers who provide support services to the Indian Army. It consists of officers , junior commissioned officers , non-commissioned officers and other personnel who hold ranks identical to those in the Indian Army, and also maintains civilian occupations.
Territorial Army (United Kingdom) Territorial Army (Ethiopia), part of the Ethiopian National Defense Force; Territorial Army (Germany), part of the West German Army during the Cold War; Armée territoriale, part of the French Army from 1872 to 1918; Austrian Landwehr, a component of the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1869 to 1918; Royal Hungarian ...
The Army Reserve was created as the Territorial Force in 1908 by the Secretary of State for War, Richard Haldane, when the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 combined the previously civilian-administered Volunteer Force, with the mounted Yeomanry (at the same time the Militia was renamed the Special Reserve).
The Territorial Force was a part-time volunteer component of the British Army, created in 1908 to augment British land forces without resorting to conscription.The new organisation consolidated the 19th-century Volunteer Force and yeomanry into a unified auxiliary, commanded by the War Office and administered by local county territorial associations.
The Territorial Army was created by law on 27 July 1872 which established the principles of the military reserve. [1] This law established a military service obligation of twenty years for French men as follows: five years in the active army; four years in the Army Reserve; five years in the Territorial Army; six years in the Territorial Army ...
The Territorial Army (Territorialheer) was a military reserve force, part of the German Army of the Bundeswehr, which was responsible for territorial defence from the 1950s to c.2001. In contrast to the field army, the territorial army was nationally commanded even in the anticipated wartime fighting period (similar to UK Transition To War).
The TA ceased to exist on 6 September 1939, at which date it was merged with the Regular Army for the duration of the war. Early in 1940, each of the former TA Companies formed a second, duplicate, Company, normally by detaching one or more Sections to form the nucleus of the new unit, and in this way the 9 (Scottish), 12 (Eastern), 15 (Scottish), 18 (Eastern), 23 (Northumbrian), 38 (Welsh ...
This page is a historic list of units in the United Kingdom Territorial Army as of 2012, prior to its disestablishment, and re-establishment as the Army Reserve, in 2014. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Honourable Artillery Company