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OFFICERS TAUGHT BY CORRESPONDENCE
Territorial Army officers in Britain are to receive training by post to qualify them for staff appointments in the event of mobilisation. Details of the scheme were announced this week by the War Office. The scheme has been evolved with due regard to the fact that Territorial Army officers, toeing engaged in civil occupations1, cannot easily in any number take up residence at the Staff College. It has therefore been i arranged to train these officers in the theoretical side of > staff work in their own homes. Selected officers will, over a period of nine months, be sent a series of I lectures on subjects they are required to study. They will be set papers to write on the subjects they are studying, and will be given tactical and administrative problems to solve. Correction and criticism of the papers' and the answering of any questions put by officers attending the course, will be carried out by the staffs of commands. After the theoretical side, there will be a second part consisting of a practical course lasting a fortnight to be held at the j staff college,
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 88, 4 November 1938, Page 5
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193LESSONS BY LETTER Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 88, 4 November 1938, Page 5
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