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100th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery is a reserve unit of the British Army that provides tactical air control parties, naval gunnery liaison officers, specialist staff officers and gunnery instructors. It was formerly part of the Territorial Army and had three gun batteries all equipped with the L118 Light Gun.
When the Territorial Force (TF) was created in 1908 it was a part-time volunteer force intended for home defence when the Regular British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was deployed overseas, although a small number of TF units had volunteered for 'Imperial Service'.
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 ...
In October 2012 MoD announced a new name for the Territorial Army, its current name, the Army Reserve. [118] Most of the recommendations of the commission were adopted in the White Paper July 2013 including the critical importance of providing operational and training opportunities for formed units and sub-units.
Army Reserve bands are not part of the Corps of Army Music. They are under the direct command of their parent corps or regiment. There are currently 20 Army Reserve bands located across the UK with one in Gibraltar: [3] Band of the Honourable Artillery Company; Regimental Band (Inns of Court & City Yeomanry) of the Royal Yeomanry
At the outset of the First World War, Kitchener denounced the TF as a ‘town clerks army’ and set up a process for recruiting a parallel organisation of service units (soon called ‘Kitchener units’) for the Regular Army, The county associations and their parliamentary supporters pressed the government to mobilise the Territorial Force ...
A series of drone sightings over military bases across the country has renewed concerns that the US doesn’t have clear government-wide policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that ...
Territorial Army may refer to: Territorial Army (India) Military Regional Command (Indonesia) 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