TERRITORIAL ARMY DRIVE BEGUN: LEADERS’ WARNING
(N.lt.P. A.—Reuter—Copyright.) (10 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 30. Plans for a new nation-wide recruiting drive for the Territorial Army were outlined by the Secretary of War, Mr. E. Shinwetl, and Field Marshal Lord Montgomery. Mr. Shimvell stated that the target was 150,000 men and women. This meant that the recruitment rate of 500 weekly at present would have to be speeded up to 4000 weekly and maintained at that level during the six months’ campaign. Field Marsha) Montgomery stated that one of the big lessons of the last war was the lack of preparedness. “In a third world war we will not be allowed breathing space to get the Territorial Army out and trained,” he said. "The Territorial Army must not be regarded as a sideshow. It must be recognised as an indispensable part of the British Army. “You are going to find in another war that the people of a nation, and especially our nation, are going to be put to a very great test.” A major feature of the recruiting drive will be a review of the Territorial Army by the King in Hyde Park on October 31.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 5
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