Talk:British Army First World War reserve brigades

Missing numbers
is there a reason why there is no 25th or 27th Brigade listed? Opera hat (talk) 19:16, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

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Problem with this article's name and scope
As best I can tell, the narrative in this article is not quite correct. It appears to be sourced from http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/training-reserve/, but that site is explaining the "Training Reserve", which was indeed formed on 1st September 1916, but: My sources are James, British Regiments, 1914–1918 ISBN 9780906304037 p. 129, and Mitchinson, Defending Albion: Britain's Home Army 1908–1919 ISBN 9781403938251 pp. 124–125. Quick fix: rename this article to "Training Reserve". Longer term, it could do with more background on the organisation of reserves in 1915. Factotem (talk) 17:12, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Reserve brigades were formed in 1915 by a re-purposing of Kitchener's Fourth New Army. The battalions of "K4" were re-designated as "2nd Reserve Battalions", and organised into 18 "Reserve Infantry Brigades".
 * The Fifth New Army was instructed to recruit over establishment when it was raised in late 1914, and the surplus was formed into Depot Companies of 250 men each. Where three or more such Depot Companies were concentrated together, they were amalgamated to form "Local Reserve Battalions" in June 1915. Thus, the Depot Companies of the 22nd, 23rd and 24th Battalions, Manchester Regiment, became the regiment's 27th (Reserve) Battalion.
 * The "Training Reserve" was then created in a major re-organisation of the reserves which combined the 2nd Reserve Battalions and the Local Reserve Battalions, and which began in January 1916, when Field Marshal Sir John French became Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces.