Of No Earthly Use: The 2nd Line Territorial Force Divisions and the Western Front Mitchinson K. W.
Of No Earthly Use: The 2nd Line Territorial Force Divisions and the Western Front Mitchinson K. W. In 1914, the 2nd Line Territorial Force divisions experienced a difficult birth and faced an…
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Of No Earthly Use: The 2nd Line Territorial Force Divisions and the Western Front Mitchinson K. W.
In 1914, the 2nd Line Territorial Force divisions experienced a difficult birth and faced an uncertain future. Regularly the subject of querulous questions in parliament, the government and military authorities appeared to have had little clear idea of what they actually wanted from the 2nd Line.After more than two years on home defense duties, and now filled with Derbyites and conscripts rather than volunteer territorials, seven divisions deployed abroad. Deprived of men and equipment, and with the War Office patently biased towards the Kitchener Armies, the 2nd Line lived a Cinderella existence.
When the seven divisions arrived on the Western Front opinion on their potential worth was very much divided. Their The six divisions which remained in the UK were either disbanded or by the transfer of individual units lost what little of their territorial affiliation had survived.