Old travel Blog photograph of Territorial Army soldiers in the Railway Station in Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The Territorial Force was originally formed by the Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane, following the enactment of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 which combined and re-organised the old Volunteer Force with the Yeomanry. As part of the same process, remaining units of militia were converted to the Special Reserve. The TF was formed on 1 April 1908 and contained fourteen infantry divisions, and fourteen mounted yeomanry brigades. It had an overall strength of approximately 269,000. The individual units that made up each division or brigade were administered by County Associations, with the county's lord lieutenant as president.
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