Training Units in England

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Brief History

1st Training Battalion

Existed in Egypt before later being reformed at Perham Down on 8 Aug 1916, moved to Durrington on 30 Jul 1917 and then to Sutton Veny on 10 Oct 1917.

Egypt

• William Edward Butcher MM RMG MID 27 Nov - 10 Dec 1917

England

• Pierre Wolfe Daimpre 10 Nov 1917 - 26 Jul 1918
• Walter Alfred King 28 Sep 1918 - ?? Apr 1919
• Frank Thomas Firns 28 Sep - 5 Oct 1918
• Walter Alfred King 28 Sep - ?? 1919

2nd Training Battalion

Formed at Perham Down on 8 Aug 1916, moved to Durrington on 30 Jul 1917 and then to Sutton Veny on 10 Oct 1917 before being disbanded 25 Apr 1918.

• Claude Francis Cooper 3 - 30 Sep 1916
• Joseph George Benton Jnr 28 Dec 1917 - 25 Apr 1918
• Ernest Camp 27 Dec 1917 - 30 Mar 1918

3rd Training Battalion

Egypt and then reformed at Perham Down on 8 Aug 1916, moved to Durrington 30 Jul 1917 and then to Sutton Veny, 10 October 1917 before being disbanded 8 Nov 1917.
Egypt

• † Charles Maul Glover 15 Dec 1915 - 18 Apr 1916
• Arthur Thomas Orton MM 17 Apr - 8 May 1916
• † Thomas William Dowell 26 Apr - 7 Jun 1916
• † Herbert George Lewis 4 May - 22 Jul 1916 during which time the unit relocated to England.

England
Unit Staff

• Herbert Lewis Battams 21 Jul - ?? Oct 1917

Trainees

• Leonard Henry (Lennie) Buckingham MM 6 - 24 Jul
• Thomas Albert Leslie Cheney 2 Sep - 22 Nov 1916
• James Thomson MM September 1916
• Thomas Hughie Culbertson 3 Dec 1916 - 15 Jul 1917
• John Flynn 17 Feb - 10 Mar 1917

4th Training Battalion

Originally in Egypt, it was reformed at Rollestone on 8 Aug 1916, moved to Codford 2 Oct 1916 before being disbanded 4 Nov 1917.

Egypt
Trainees

• William Plant 11 Mar - 6 Jun 1916
• John William King 11 Apr - ?? May 1916
• † Frank Ernest Cousens 25 Apr - 19 May 1916
• Eugene Anthony Gillespie 4 Oct - 4 Nov 1917
• William Arthur Green 25 Apr - ?? May 1919

England
Staff

• James Clarence Taylor - attached from 76th Dental Unit 27 Jun - 6 Nov 1917

Trainees

• Sidney Hart 13 Dec 1916 - 9 Mar 1917
• George Emanuel Nettleton 11 Jan - 11 Apr 1917
• James Peter Henderson MM & Bar 27 Mar - 30 May 1917
• John Kiely 30 Jun - 3 Nov 1917

5th Training Battalion

Formed Rollestone 8 Aug 1916, moved to Codford 18 Apr 1917 and then to Fovant 11 Oct 1917.

• Wilfred (George) Nettleton 5 Apr - 3 Dec 1918
• James Richard Parry (Dick) Murray 5 Apr - 4 Jun 1918
• Samuel Arthur Vincent 5 Apr - May 1918
• George Emanuel Harber 16 May 1918 - 5 Feb 1919
• John George (Jack) Ray 16 May - 4 Jun 1918
• Ernest Taylor 21 Aug 1918 - ??

6th Training Battalion

Formed Rollestone 8 Aug 1916, moved to Codford 18 Apr 1917 and then to Fovant 11 Oct 1917, before being disbanded 23 Apr 1918.

• Henry Ivor Passmore DCM 9 Oct 1917 - 5 Mar 1918

7th Training Battalion

Egypt and then reformed at Rollestone 8 Aug 1916, moved to Codford 18 Apr 1917 and then to Fovant 11 Oct 1917, before being disbanded 8 Nov 1917.
Egypt

• † Ernest Selkirk MID 27 Nov 1915 - 2 Mar 1916
• Thomas William Kerry 10 Feb - 2 Mar 1916
• Edward Patrick Barker 10 Feb - 3 Mar 1916
• George Edward Binns 10 Feb - 3 Mar 1916
• † John Huntley 12 Mar - 1 Apr 1916
• † Frank Leslie Sexton 12 Mar - 2 Apr 1916
• Charles Bird 25 Apr - ?? May 1916
• Thomas Bird 11 - 30 Apr 1916
• † Leonard Roy Matthews 27 Nov 1915 - 2 Mar 1916
• † Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor 27 Nov 1915 - 2 Mar 1916
• † John Whittaker 12 Mar - ?? Jun 1916

England

• William Wilfred Gerald Liddington 11 Jan - 24 Apr 1917
• Herbert Dunbar Cousens 10 Sep - 1 Nov 1916
• Robert Poole 10 Sep - 15 Nov 1916
• Aleck (Alex) Charles Gale 10 Sep 1916 - 19 Apr 1917
• Albert Thomas Myers 4 Mar - 13 Jun 1917
• Leonard Alfred Sawtell 28 Mar 1917 - 16 Jun 1918
• Henry (Harry) Butcher 17 Feb 1917 - 10 May 1917
• Samuel Vivian Mortimer 27 Nov 1915 - 27 Feb 1916
• Victor Norman Chandler MM 27 Nov 1915 - 2 Mar 1916
• Arthur James Allen 29 Dec 1916 - 7 Feb 1917
• John Esperance Blair 29 Dec 1916 - 7 Feb 1917
• † Wilfred Norman Robinson 29 Dec 1916 - 7 Feb 1917
• Henry Ivor Passmore DCM 17 - 18 Sep 1917
• John (Junior) Shepherd 17 Sep 1917 - 5 Mar 1917

8th Training Battalion

Formed at Larkhill on 5 Aug 1916, moved to Codford on 2 Oct 1916, and hen to Fovant 16 Nov 1916 before being disbanded on 5 Nov 1917.

• Roslyn Christopher Coulston 28 Dec 1916 - 29 Jul 1917

9th Training Battalion

Formed at Hamilton on 31 Aug 1916, moved to Codford on 2 Oct 1916, and then to Larkhill 15 Dec 1916 and Durrington on 30 Jul 1917 before being disbanded on 12 Oct 1917.

• James Henry Davidson 6 Feb -14 Apr 1917
• Charles Henry Murray ?? Mar - 6 Apr 1918

10th Training Battalion

Formed at Hamilton on 31 Aug 1916, moved to Codford 2 Oct 1916, and then to Larkhill 15 Dec 1916, Durrington on 30 Jul 1917 and Fovant on 12 Oct 1917 before being disbanded on 31 Mar 1918
Staff

• James Clarence Taylor - attached from 76th Dental Unit 25 Mar - 2 Apr 1918

Trainees

• Joseph William Smith  ?? Mar - 29 Apr 1917
• Charles Henry Murray 24 Jan - ?? Mar 1918

11th Training Battalion

Formed at Hamilton on 31 Aug 1916, moved to Codford 2 Oct 1916, and then to Larkhill 15 Dec 1916, Durrington on 30 Jul 1917 and Fovant 12 Oct 1917 before being disbanded on 8 Nov 1917.

• Charles Frederick George Judd 26 Sep 1916 - 26 Dec 1916
• † Thomas Hesketh 26 Sep - 13 Nov 1916
• † Ernest John Coles 26 Sep - 20 Nov 1916
• John Waldegrave Packer 26 Sep - 9 Nov 1916
• Charles Henry Murray 29 Dec 1916 - 23 Jan 1918
• William Percy Matthews 29 Dec 1916 - 9 Apr 1917
• John Arthur Patterson MM 29 Dec 1916 - 24 Feb 1917
• John Henry Whitfield 29 Dec 1916 - 27 Feb 1917
• Thomas Ramsell 29 Dec 1916 - 24 Feb 1917
• Arthur Clarke 11 Jan - 21 May 1917
• † William Savage 11 Jan - 8 May 1917
• George William Piesley 5 Feb - 24 Apr 1917
• Eric Horace Bell 3 Mar - 10 Jun 1917
• † Gordon Walter Bone 18 Apr - 15 Jun 1917

12th Training Battalion

Formed at Rollestone on 8 Aug 1916, moved to Codford 2 Oct 1917 and then to Hundcott on 14 Sep 1918
Egypt
Staff

• † Frank Ernest Cousens 20 May - 6 Jun 1916

Trainees

• John William King ?? May - 6 Jun 1916

England Staff

• James Clarence Taylor - attached from 76th Dental Unit 7 Nov 1917 - 24 Mar 1918

Trainees

• William Dobson Stevens 13 Jun - 3 Sep 1916
• Frederick William Scott 29 Jun - 15 Sep 1916
• Albert Nock 11 Jan - 20 Jul 1917
• Ernest William George Reed 11 Jan - 13 Jun 1917
• Herbert James Reed 11 Jan - 28 Feb 1917
• George Albert Alford 17 Feb - 18 Jun 1917
• William Henry Baldwin 17 Feb - 28 May 1917
• George Mouatt Dow 4 Mar - 28 May 1917
• William Percival Nairn 4 Mar - 1 Jul 1917
• Nicholas Joseph Rosekelly 4 Mar - 16 Sep 1917
• Francis William Swann 4 Mar - 12 Aug 1917
• † Arthur Werndly 4 Mar - 3 Jun 1917
• Albert John Llewellyn Reed 8 Apr - 21 Jul 1917
• John Alexander Trotter 29 Dec 1916 - 27 Mar 1917
• James Edward Grabham 11 Apr - 9 Dec 1918
• Archibald Watson 11 Apr - 30 Nov 1918
• Ellis Shackleton 11 Apr - 3 Dec 1918
• Samuel Arthur Vincent June - 7 Aug 1918
• John George (Jack) Ray 4 Jun - 14 Aug 1918
• James Richard Parry (Dick) Murray 4 Jun - 24 Jan 1919

13th Training Battalion

Formed at Rollestone on 8 Aug 1916, moved to Codford 2 Oct 1917 and disbanded 12 April 1918
Unit Staff

• Victor Norman Chandler MM 1 Sep 1917 - 29 Jan 1918

Trainees

• William Charles Woodland 15 Dec 1915 - 3 Sep 1916
• Edward William Tink 14 May 1916 (Egypt) - 17 Dec 1916 (France)
• Clarence Victor Watson 27 Jul - 7 Oct 1916
• † Albert Victor Berry 26 Sep - 3 Dec 1916
• William Bertie Claude Moulden 26 Sep 1916 - 15 Jan 1917
• James Edward Grabham 15 Nov 1916 - 10 Apr 1918
• † Herbert Charles Smith16 Nov 1916 - 3 Feb 1917
• Victor Emanuel Durling 18 Nov 1916 - 2 Jul 1917
• Daniel Adkins Lewis Dec 1916 - Jan 1917
• Charles Blunt 3 Dec 1916 - 24 Jun 1917
• Ernest (Roy) William Sladden 3 Dec 1916 - 3 Feb 1917
• † Felix Edmund John Sainsbury 3 Dec 1916 - 9 Jun 1917
• Hubert Maitland Armstrong MM 11 Jan - 13 Apr 1917
• Charles Leonard Lockhart 11 Jan - 8 May 1917
• Leslie Hetherington 11 Jan - 24 Apr 1917
• † Henry Seddon 11 Jan - 24 Apr 1917
• Vernon Claude Witney 11 Jan - 8 May 1917
• Stanley Thomas Marsh 28 Mar - 24 Jun 1917
• Harold Hopgood Surman 28 Mar -24 Jun 1917
• William Richard (Billy) Orr 28 Mar 1917 - 17 Feb 1918
• Victor Norman Chandler MM 1 Sep 1917 - 29 Jan 1918
• John Kiely 3 Nov - 3 Dec 1917
• Eugene Anthony Gillespie 4 Nov 1917 - 15 Jan 1918
• Ellis Shackleton 27 Dec 1917 - 10 Apr 1918
• Archibald Watson 28 Dec 1917 - 10 Apr 1918
• Gordon Devereux MM 5 Jan - 30 Mar 1918

14th Training Battalion

Formed at Larkhill on 8 Aug 1916, moved to Codford 2 Oct 1916 and then Hundcott on 25 Oct 1918.

• Harry Douglas Butcher 21 Apr - 9 Jul 1918

15th Training Battalion

Formed at Larkhill on 8 Oct 1916, moved to Codford 2 Oct 1916, and then to Fovant on 16 Nov 1916 before being disbanded on 12 Apr 1918.

• Francis William Wakeham 1 Jul - 3 Sep 1917

Overseas Training Brigade

Unit Staff

• Alfred Warburton Chapman (Jnr) Dec 1916 - Sep 1917
• Arthur Thomas Orton MM ?? - 30 Nov 1918
• John Grant Watt MM & Bar 8 Jan - 29 Jun 1918

Trainees

• Thomas Albert Leslie Cheney 10 Aug - 30 Sep 1917
• Charles Fielder 12 Sep - 13 Oct 1917 & 30 Aug - 3 Oct 1918
• † Albert Victor Berry 10 - 27 Nov 1917
• Edward Patrick Barker 11 Jan - 26 Mar 1918 & 12 Jul - 8 Aug 1918
• Gordon Devereux MM 22 Sep 1917 - 4 Jan 1918
• Richard Evans MM 1 - 9 Jan 1918
• Albert John Egan MID 29 Jan - 28 Feb 1919
• † Thomas Hesketh 11 May - 4 Jun 1918
• John Henry Holroyd 23 May - 12 Aug 1917
• Daniel Adkins Lewis May - 25 Jul 1917 & 29 May - 18 Jun 1918
• Alfred Arthur Martin 29 Sep - 19 Oct 1917
• Frederick Edwin Murphy 5 - 26 Nov 1917
• John Arthur Patterson MM 5 Dec 1917 - 2 Jan 1918
• John Alexander Trotter 2 - 20 Jan 1918
• George Turner 17 - 28 Jan 1918
• Leslie James Godfrey 26 Jan - 3 Mar 1918
• Hector Lionel Saw 14 - 27 Mar 1918
• Alfred Arthur Martin 16 May - 4 Jun 1918
• William Percival Nairn 21 Jun - 11 Sep 1918
• Claude Francis Cooper 11 Jul - 28 Aug 1918
• Cecil James Clark 17 Oct - 21 Nov 1918
• Charles John Mitchell 24 Oct - 20 Nov 1918
• William Plant 28 Feb - 12 Sep 1918
• Arthur Frederick William Eivers 10 Oct 1918 - ?? Feb 1919

Artillery Training Depot

Formed in Egypt during January 1916. Arrived England 20 June 1916. Renamed Reserve Artillery Brigade 28 November 1916. Egypt

• Sydney Charles Welch 15 May 1916 - 14 Mar 1917

England

• George Turner 28 Jan - 28 Feb 1918
• Hector Lionel Saw 28 Mar - 10 Jul 1918
• John James Lynes Chester March - June 1918
• Frederick George Gibbs 10 Jun - 3 Oct 1918

Pioneer Training Battalion

Formed at Sutton Veny on 8 Nov 1917 and was active until after November 1918.
Unit Staff

• Pierre Wolfe Daimpre 26 Oct - 9 Nov 1917 (staff)
• John Aubrey Nunn MC 24 Oct - 16 Nov 1916
• John Aubrey Nunn MC 11 Mar 1917 - 4 Oct 1917

Trainees

• Alfred Ernest Andrews 27 Jul - 23 Nov 1916
• Clarence Henry Batt 27 Jul - 23 Nov 1916
• Ernest Albert Batt 27 Jul - 23 Nov 1916
• Michael Dennis O'Rourke 27 Jul - 23 Nov 1916
• Charles John Mitchell 4 Mar - 24 Aug 1917
• James Peter Henderson MM & Bar 31 May - 6 Sep 1917
• Dugald Thomas Main 27 Dec 1917 - 7 Apr 1918
• Reginald William Edwards 28 Dec 1917 - 16 Jan 1918
• Maurice Francis Gustavis Hare 17 Feb - 8 Jul 1918
• George Partington 11 Jan - 3 Dec 1917
• Francis William Wakeham 29 Dec 1916 - 1 Jul 1917

Machine Gun Training Depot

Grantham, Heytesbury
Unit Staff

• James Murray Whiteley 31 Dec 1917 - 2 Oct 1918

Trainees

• William Francis Clements 11 Jun 1916 - 28 Feb 1917
• William Percival Nairn 23 Apr -11 Sep 1918
• Jack Hayden Gibson 21 May - 6 Nov 1917
• Harry Hodgson 10 Oct 1918 - 20 Feb 1919

Engineers Training Depot

Brightlingsea with a Signals section at Shefford

• James Henry Larkin 8 Jun - 3 Dec 1916
• † Harold Ross 10 Sep 1916 - 28 Mar 1917
• Arthur Frederick William Eivers 5 Nov 1917 - 23 Apr 1918

29th Training Squadron Australian Flying Corps

• James Strachan 20 Jul 1918 - 13 May 1919

Army Service Corps (AASC) Training Depot

• Edward William Tink 18 Dec 1916 - 27 Jan 1917
• † Gordon Walter Bone 16 Jun - 10 Oct 1917
• Thomas Herbert Pierssene 21 Dec 1918 - 1 Feb 1919