This is the third of four volumes that constitute the official history of all Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery units. Reorganisation after the First World War saw the amalgamation of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry and the two Royal Field Artillery batteries as a four-battery field artillery unit - initially brigade, from 1938 regiment - with centres at Hertford, St Albans, Hitchin and Watford. Then, early in 1939, a second field artillery regiment was formed. The regiments mobilised in August - September 1939 and served throughout the Second World War, one field regiment in the Normandy Landings and in the subsequent campaign in North-West Europe, the other in Malaya and Singapore. A third field regiment was also formed during the war.

The Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery: an Illustrated History: The Field Regiments, 1920-1946

Engineering & Transportation

J.D. Sainsbury

Engineering

Hart Books

The Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery: Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment 1938-45 & the Searchlight Battery 1937-45; & Post-War Units 1947-2002 Pt. 2 and 3: An Illustrated History

History

Military

This book gives an account of the Army Cadet Force and the Army contingents of the Combined Cadet Force both nationally and within Hertfordshire. Having given the national picture, Col. Sainsbury presents a detailed account of the development of Hertfordshire's cadet units. A wealth of historical research is accompanied by almost 200 plates. Having sprung up in the mid-nineteenth century, the unregulated cadet forces were formalised in 1863 when new regulations came into force providing for Cadet Corps formed of boys of at least twelve years of age (initially) to be attached to Volunteer Corps or Administrative Battalions. The majority of early Cadet Corps were formed in public schools. In Hertfordshire the three contingents of the Combined Cadet Force that have given the longest continuous service are Haileybury (formed in 1886), Berkhamsted Collegiate School (1891) and St Albans School (1903). In 1908, in an attempt to improve the supply of officers for the Army and Auxiliary Forces, the existing School Cadet Corps and University Volunteer Battalions were reorganised into two divisions of a new Officers Training Corps. Cadets would attain a standard, by the time they left school, that included proficiency in shooting, care of arms, drill, tactical handling of at least 25 men and semaphore signalling, and would lead to a commission in the Reserve Forces. Both the school contingents and the 'Cadet Force', which eventually became the Army Cadet Force, came into their own during the two World Wars, when they provided valuable pre-enlistment training. In peacetime, however, there were constant pressures upon cadet contingents with regard to funding and facilities; their very raison d'etre was often called into question. The Cadet Corps' determination to overcome the many obstacles that have beset them throughout their history makes for a most engaging account.

Hertfordshire's Army Cadets: An Account of the Army Cadet Units Formed in Hertfordshire from 1886 to the Present Day

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Architecture

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