A Nation in Arms by Ian F. W. Beckett

Author:Ian F. W. Beckett [Beckett, Ian F. W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, World War I, Wars & Conflicts (Other)
ISBN: 9781473816626
Google: dgaSAwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2004-12-22T03:06:49+00:00

Notes

Crown copyright material from the Public Record Office appears by permission of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. The author also gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following in allowing him to consult and utilise archives in their possession: the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum; the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives; the National Army Museum; the Guildhall Library; the Ministry of Defence Library (old War Office); the Council of Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Associations; the Army Museums Ogilby Trust 2nd Battalion, the Mercian Volunteers; the Board of Trustees of the Inns of Court and City Yeomanry, and. the county record offices of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Surrey and Hereford and Worcester. E. D. Kingsley and W. Ward-Jackson kindly gave permission to quote copyright material in the IWM. For Buckinghamshire material thanks go to the Buckinghamshire County Record Office, the Rt Hon. Lord Burnham, Colonel John Christie-Miller, Major Elliot Viney and all those former members of the 48th Division and Bucks units whom the author has interviewed or corresponded with over the years.

1

The creation of the Territorial Force and its subsequent progress to 1914 is examined in Edward M. Spiers, Haldane: an Army Reformer, Edinburgh University Press, 1980, pp. 92–115, 161–86. Spiers also covers the wider aspects of Haldane’s reforms both in his biography of Haldane and in his Army and Society, 1815–1914, Longman, London, 1980, pp. 265–87, as does John Gooch, ‘Mr. Haldane’s Army’, in John Gooch (ed.), The Prospect of War, Frank Cass, London, 1981, pp. 92–115, and ‘Haldane and the National Army’, in Ian F. W. Beckett and John Gooch (eds.), Politicians and Defence: Studies in the Formulation of British Defence Policy, 1840–1970, Manchester University Press, 1980, pp. 69–86.

2

Evidence of the perennial concerns of Territorial associations can be found in a nation-wide response to a War Office request for recommendations for improving recruitment in October 1911 in PRO, WO 32/6602, and in the minutes of the Council of County Territorial Associations retained at the Duke of York’s headquarters, Chelsea, London. This culminated in a major discussion of proposals by the Essex Association at the CCTA annual meeting on 14 April 1913 and a deputation to Asquith and Seely on 26 November 1913 at which most of the usual arguments were rehearsed. An account of the deputation can also be found in Surrey RO, Minutes of Surrey C(ounty) T(erritorial) A(ssociation), 1913–22, and L. Magnus, The West Riding Territorials in the Great War, Kegan Paul, London, 1920, pp. 10–12. For the situations of individual counties see, for example, Guildhall Library Mss, 12613, Minutes of the Recruiting Committee, 1908–13; Hants. RO, 37M69/3, Minutes of the Hampshire CTA, 1912–17; Oxon. RO, Report upon the Administration of the County Territorial Association, 1908–13; F. H. Reynard, A Brief History of the Territorial Association of the County of York (North Riding), 1908–19, Joseph Walker, Northallerton, 1919, p. 16; PRO, WO 32/11242, for the state of recruiting in Edinburgh, 1913.

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Statistics are culled from the minutes of the annual meeting of the CCTA,

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