Manchester Based OTC Affiliations.

[manchesters]

Hello,

In order to display my badges correctly, I am trying to establish what, if any, affiliations the following 2 OTC's had with any particular Territorial Battalions of the Manchester Regiment and relevant dates:-

Manchester Grammar School OTC

Hulme Grammar School OTC

Any help gratefully appreciated.

regards

[Peter Brydon]

Simon,

Not much help but the Army List for January 1925 shows Hulme Grammar School C.Corps ( and 1st C.Bn, Manchester Regiment ) affiliated to the 6th/7th Battalion.

It is the same in the November 1932 List.

Will see if I can find anything else in other lists

Peter

[manchesters]

Peter,

Thanks for that.
I had a feeling HGS was to do with the 6th.

Manchester GS I have no idea though.

Were all OTC's actually affiliated to a Bn. I dont know??

regards

[Alan O]

No they were not. Most were not but Cadet Corps were.

In Hulme Manchester case they had a CC and an OTC at the same time.

[manchesters]

Originally Posted by Alan O

No they were not. Most were not but Cadet Corps were.

In Hulme Manchester case they had a CC and an OTC at the same time.

Alan,

I had assumed the HGS CC became the HGS OTC in 1908?

Is that definately now not the case?

regards

[Alan O]

Yes. I have proof of the existence of both.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...0corps&f=false


Page13 in this book confirms that Hulme Manchester had the OTC for senior boys and a cadet Corps for younger boys.

[manchesters]

Alan,

Indeed it does and I have worked out that the writer moved from the CC to the OTC as late as 1925.

Thats a very interesting revelation in the history of School Cadet Corps which I had always assumed had died out upon the formation of the OTC.

Puts a whole new timeline on formations.

Thanks for providing the information.

regards

[Alan O]

There was a number of schools who ran both in parallel. When the OTC expanded in the mid 1930's a number of cadet corps became OTCs or formed OTC for the older boys.