Talk:Volunteer Army (British)

Deletion
As the militia were never part of the Territorial Army, I have deleted the reference in the last section.

--Train guard 14:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Article Title
Shouldn't this article be titled Volunteer Force (United Kingdom) rather than Volunteer Army. It seems to have been the term more widely used in contemporary sources (2,616 hits between 1859 and 1908 in The Times Digital Archive, as opposed to 316 for "volunteer army"), and in the reference quoted.

In 1862 a royal commission was appointed to inquire into the condition of the volunteer force in Great Britain and into the probability of its continuance at its existing strength, this presumably being the preferred official designation. It's also the term used in a number of unit histories on the Ministry of Defence site.

Having said that, 1907 Act that merged them into the TF just calls them "The Volunteers".

Lozleader 10:24, 20 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Having nosed around the stautes (in particular the Volunteer Act 1863), Volunteer Force was definitely the preferred official form. I now propose moving to Volunteer Force (Great Britain), seeing as units were not formed in Ireland. I'm not sure whether to add the years 1859 - 1908, as there was another volunteer Force during the First World War. Lozleader 14:15, 9 June 2007 (UTC)