The Volunteer Training Corps Handbook [1915, British Army]

The Volunteer Training Corps Handbook [1915, British Army]

Author: F A M Webster (Frederick Annesley Michael)

Year: 1915

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at Princeton University https://books.google.com/books?id=phRAAAAAYAAJ The author was ”Commanding Wandsworth Regiment V.T.C. Formerly of the 2nd (Herts) V. B. Bedfordshire Regiment and late Royal Field Artillery (T.)” The second mentioned regiment was later called the Hertfordshire Regiment. Pages 7-8 state the " [ Volunteer Training] corps are intended for internal defence, and are liable to be called to any or all parts of the United Kingdom as necessity for this may arise; that is to say, … in case of raid or invasion." The Introduction pages v-vi state “This book, I am sure , will be of great value both to corps about to be formed, and to the members of existing corps. But above and beyond that, it is to be hoped that it will induce others, who may be incapacitated by age or circumstances, to offer themselves as members to their local Volunteer Training Corps, in order that they may take their share in the defence of the country should occasion arise. In such an event the guerilla warfare that would necessarily follow would be best waged by men with local knowledge, and that knowledge is obviously most easily acquired by local men u