151 Regimnet RLC - page 3
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| Full title | 151 Regimnet RLC |
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| Publication date | 2019 |
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| Colour | Yes |
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| Early date | 1794 |
| Late date | 2019 |
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THE GREAT WAR (WW1) Rf!lf{QP r " l l H P f P P ^ P P | Training for 1914 consisted of a concentration at Bordon and a j j ^ j ^ j ^ j g j t j ^ ^ jBai^483ftSiiJj( march from there to Salisbury Plain. This being the first time a DffpjwriWpl TA Division had moved complete, it was inspected by King RnfRmiinSra George V. The Division arrived on the eve of war and Camp IpfMPP was of course cancelled as all units returned back t o Home | P Stations for embodiment which was proclaimed at midnight on August 4 t h /5 t h . Unhappily, the Home Counties Division was never destined to serve as a formation and soon after | Companies had reached war stations at Maidstone in 1914, the first split in the Colum occurred. The Middlesex Brigade Company was despatched with t w o Battalions of the Middlesex Brigade t o relieve Regular troops in Gibraltar and stayed there throughout the war. The remainder of the Column moved to Winchester and became the Divisional Train of 27 Division which were forming in that area. The Division went over to France in April 1915 and took part in the 2 nd Battle of Ypres, when gas was used for the first time by the Germans, which the train did not escape. At the end of 1915, 27 Division were ordered east to Salonika accompanied by selected Officers and Supply personnel. The rest of the Train became the Divisional Train of 55 West Lancashire Division, recently arriving in France. The Division were soon in action on the Somme suffering heavy casualties and the Adjutant, Captain H. R. Kerr (later D.S.T) arranged for all personnel of the Column t o take a spell in the trenches, an example which might have been more widely followed. The Division again suffered heavily at Passchendaele and in the German advance of 1918, but survived as an entity to take part in the Allied advance of August 1918. The Train suffered heavy casualties due t o shelling of supply routes and t o mines and booby traps during the advance and a Train Officer Major C. C Allen won a Military Cross (MC) during the Passchendaele battle. In 1918 The Army Service Corps was awarded the prefix “Royal” for its service during the 1st ^ J | Butt World War. In 1919 it was decided t o reform 44 Home Counties Divisional Train under the command of Lt Col S. T. Maynard. Reformation began in earnest in February 1920, with H.Q. now for the first time established in Croydon with No 5 Company. The remaining Companies were formed in the old pre-war stations at Brighton, Barnet, Woking, and Maidstone. After the personnel of the Train had served in the Defence Force of 1921, formed to combat the effects of the coal and railway strikes of that year, the Geddes Axe descended and the Train was reduced to t w o Companies one Horse Transport and one Mechanical Transport, centralised in Croydon. In 1932, the unit was again reorganised as 44 (HC) Divisional Royal Army Service Corps TA. The horses were lost and became fully mechanised for the 1935 Annual Camp at Ash Vale under Command of S A Metcalfe. Above: 44 Home Counties RASC Divisional Train Annual Camp Ash Vale 1935 |
| Book number | R0449 |