Source: File: The Approved Volunteer Training Corps uniforms,
published in February 1915.jpg, The
Original can be seen at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Training_Corps_%28World_War_I%29
[Accessed: 9 July 2015]
[Accessed: 9 July 2015]
A pleasant
setting for army
Training, arranged
about Regents
Park and within
the Royal
Botanic Gardens.
Advertised requests
for
Recruits for men, unable to join
Regular army - for what
Reason is not
said.
Such volunteers would
be
Called The Royal
Botanic Society
Training Corps -
will have
Own rifle range
At the
headquarters. these
Botanic soldiers would
be trained
As marksmen of
expertise,
For home defences.
Anyone wishing to
join
Botanic Training
Corps, was asked
To apply to the
quartermaster
At Regents Park.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon., 1915.
No title. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 9 July. P.3. Col.4. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11721649/Daily-Telegraph-July-9-1915.html
[Accessed: 9 July 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication,
9 July 2015).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11721649/Daily-Telegraph-July-9-1915.html
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