Cadets
UNIVERSITY OFFICER TRAINING CORPS
North West Officer Training Regiment
- NW OTR HQ Manchester
- Manchester & Salford Universities Officer Training Corps (MSUOTC)
Covering University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Salford
- Liverpool Universities Officer Training Corps (LUOTC)
University of Liverpool, Lancaster University, Liverpool John Moore’s University, Hope College, University of Central Lancashire, Edge Hill University, St Martin’s College, Chester College.
ARMY CADET FORCE
For action and adventure, fun and friendship, the Army Cadet Force is hard to beat. We have 6 county Army Cadet Forces with detachments all over the NW.
The following units of the Army Cadet Force are affiliated with the Regiment at Company and Detachment level:
C Company, Widnes: detachments at Penketh, Croft and Peninsula Barracks, Warrington.
HQ Arnhem Company, Carlisle Castle: detachments at Brampton, Carlisle Castle, Eden Grove, Harraby, Longtown, Morton, Penrith and Wigton.
HQ Burma Company, Barrow: detachments at Barrow, Dalton, Kendal, Millom, Ulverston (Band), Walney Island (Corps of Drums) and Windermere.
HQ Chindit Company, Workington: detachments at Aspatria, Cleator Moor, Cockermouth, Keswick, Maryport, Whitehaven and Workington.
Greater Manchester Army Cadet Force:
No. 2 (Kohima) Company, Ashton-under-Lyne: detachment at Ashton-under-Lyne. No. 3 (Somme) Company, Stockport: detachments at Ardwick and Levenshulme. No. 5 (Anzio) Company, Wigan: detachments at Bolton and Farnworth.
Home to over 100 cadets and almost 30 adult volunteers in 6 detachments around the island.
HQ Egypt Company, Haslingden: detachments at Accrington, Barnoldswick, Blackburn, Blackburn Somme, Brierfield, Burnley Kimberley, Burnley Waterloo, Clitheroe and Haslingden.
HQ Normandy Company, Lancaster: detachments at Carnforth, Galgate, Garstang, Heysham, Hornby, Lancaster, Lancaster Lunesdale and Morecambe.
HQ Salerno Company, Chorley: detachments at Chorley, Leyland, Lostock Hall, Moss Side, Penwortham, Preston and Preston (Corps of Drums).
HQ Wingate Company, Blackpool: detachments at Blackpool, Blackpool Palatine, Fleetwood, Kirkham & Weeton, and Thornton.
1 Company, Stanley High School, Southport, Merseyside, PR9 9TF.
PARADE TIMES Mon and Thu 1900 - 2100.
2 Company, Standalone Cadet Hut, Whitefield, Drive (Next to Service Station) Liverpool, Merseyside, L32 0UX.
PARADE TIMES Tue and Thu 1900 - 2100.
2 Company, Standalone Cadet Hut, Crow Lane East (Junction with Queens Road), Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside, WA12 0EA PARADE TIMES Tue and Thu 1930 - 2130.
4 Company, ARC Building, Townsend Avenue, Liverpool, Merseyside L11 5AF.
PARADE TIMES Tue and Thu 1900 - 2100.
4 Company, The Joseph Lappin Centre, Mill Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, L13 5TF.
PARADE TIMES Mon and Thu 1900 - 2100.
COMBINED CADET FORCE
The CCF is an educational partnership between schools and the Ministry of Defence, enabling the development of personal responsibility, leadership and self-discipline.
We have CCF contingents at the following schools :
AKS Lytham School. Formed in 1900, this corps has been affiliated with the Regiment since 1910.
King William’s College. This Isle of Man corps was formed in 1917 and was initially affiliated with the South Lancashire Regiment.
Kirkham Grammar School. Originally affiliated with the Loyals.
Lancaster Royal Grammar School.
Liverpool College. Nathaniel Bousefield, who in 1859 raised the 1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers (one of the very oldest volunteer units in the country) in Liverpool, was an Old Liverpudlian, as was Captain Noel Chavasse, Medical Officer to the Liverpool Scottish, the only double Victoria Cross earner of World War I. Cadets wear the school badge, but officers wear the Regiment’s cap badge.
Merchant Taylors’ School. Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby dates its regimental links to the raising of a cadet corps in 1915, when an affiliation to 6th Battalion The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment (the Liverpool Rifles) was approved.
Rossall School. Britain’s oldest cadet unit, the Rossall Corps first paraded in February 1860. In 1909 the contingent obtained permission to wear the Loyals’ badges with certain modifications and since 1921 it has been formally affiliated to the Regiment.
Stonyhurst College. The Corps was formed in 1860 and was styled the Stonyhurst Volunteers. It became the School Cadet Corps in 1900 and, at the same time, was affiliated to 1st Volunteer Battalion the East Lancashire Regiment. The College has produced some of the Regiment’s most gallant and distinguished officers, including Lt Coury VC, Lt Col Ervine-Andrews VC, and Lt Col McCarthy O’Leary of Pieters Hill fame.
William Hulme’s Grammar School. This Manchester school formed a Military Training Corps in 1915. It wore a distinctive lion’s head cap badge, based on the coat of arms of the school’s founder, until the late 1940s when the cap badge of the Manchesters was adopted. In 1935 William Hulme’s was one of seven out of 194 schools to successfully apply for OTC status, and at the same time was affiliated to the 8th Manchesters
Under the Cadet Expansion Programme we have new CCFs at Highfield Academy in Blackpool and Newman College in Preston.
