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Leighton House, Wiltshire
Army Officer Selection Board (AOSB) is an assessment centre used by the British Army as part of the officer selection process for the regular army and Army Reserve and related scholarship schemes. The board is based at Leighton House, Westbury in Wiltshire, England in a dedicated camp. It is commanded by the President AOSB, a Colonel in the British Army, supported by a number of vice-presidents. The current President is Col. Lucy Giles. AOSB is an equivalent of the Admiralty Interview Board and the Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre of the Royal Air Force. History The AOSB has its roots in the War Office Selection Boards (WOSBs) of World War II. The WOSBs were created by Army psychiatrists and established in 1942. They involved candidates taking a three-day stay in a country house, where tests were administered including written tests of mental ability, questionnaires, Leaderless Group tests and interviews. Psychiatrists and some psychological components of the WOSBs we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westbury, Wiltshire
Westbury is a town and civil parish in the west of the English county of Wiltshire, below the northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain, about south of Trowbridge and a similar distance north of Warminster. Originally a market town, Westbury was known for the annual Hill Fair where many sheep were sold in the 18th and 19th centuries; later growth came from the town's position at the intersection of two railway lines. The busy A350, which connects the M4 motorway with the south coast, passes through the town. The urban area has expanded to include the village of Westbury Leigh and the hamlets of Chalford and Frogmore. History A Romano-British settlement was found at The Ham, in the north of the parish, in the 1870s. The manor of Westbury, and the hundred with the same boundaries, was held by the king at the time of the Domesday survey in 1086. The Wiltshire Victoria County History recounts the fragmentation into manors, and traces their ownership. The ancient parish included B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College
Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College (stylised as Welbeck – The Defence Sixth Form College), formerly named and often referred to as simply Welbeck College, was an independent, selective sixth form college in Leicestershire, England. While run as a sixth form college, the school was an institution of the Ministry of Defence and part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Founded in 1953, the school was originally based at Welbeck Abbey, where it provided A-level education for boys planning to join the technical branches of the British Army. By 2004, the school accepted both male and female students for all three branches of the armed forces and in 2005, the school was re-opened and relocated to a purpose-built site in Leicestershire, where it also began admitting potential civil servants for the Defence Engineering and Science Group within the Ministry of Defence. The school closed on 3 July 2021. History Foundation Recognising a decline in the number of cadets pass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Hobbs
Major-General Reginald Geoffrey Stirling Hobbs CB DSO OBE (8 August 1908 − 7 November 1977) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Early life Hobbs was the eldest son of Brigadier-General Reginald Francis Arthur Hobbs (1878–1953) and Frances Graham Stirling, daughter of Sir William Stirling. His brothers, Major Peter Graham Hobbs (1911–1942) and Lieutenant Colonel William Paul Hobbs (1914–1943), were both killed in action in the Second World War. Military career Hobbs was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1928. He played rugby for England against South Africa at Twickenham in 1932 and then served in India. He fought in World War II becoming Commanding Officer The commanding officer (CO) or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG), is the officer in command of a military unit. The commanding officer has ultimate authority over the unit, and is usually given wide latitu .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Turner (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Robert Turner KBE CB DSO (1907–1989) was a senior British Army officer active during the Second World War and the late 1950s and early 1960s. Military career William Turner was commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1928. He served in World War II with his Regiment which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force to France in 1939. He was Commandant of the Junior Leaders School from 1940 to 1941. In 1942 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 5th Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers, a post he held for the remainder of the War. After the War he went with his Regiment to Palestine for a while. He then held various General Staff Officer (GSO) positions before becoming Commander of the British Military Mission to Greece in 1950. He was then made Commander of 128th Infantry Brigade in 1952. He was Brigadier on the General Staff at Headquarters Western Command from 1954 and was then appointed General Officer Commanding ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Erroll Prior-Palmer
Major General George Erroll Prior-Palmer, (20 February 1903 – 18 August 1977) was a senior British Army officer and businessman of Anglo-Irish origins. He saw service in the Second World War and later was military attaché at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. and General Officer Commanding the 6th Armoured Division. In civilian life he entered the world of commercial shipping and was successively a director of the Union-Castle Line, manager of Cayzer Irvine, and managing director of Overseas Containers Limited, before retiring in 1969. Early life The son of Prior Spunner Prior-Palmer, of County Sligo and 32 Merrion Square, Dublin, and Anne Leslie Gason, of Kilteelagh, County Tipperary,Peter Beauclerk Dewar, ed., ''Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain'' (2001), p. 682 Prior-Palmer was educated in England at Wellington College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.'PRIOR-PALMER, Maj.-Gen. George Erroll', in '' Who Was Who 1971–1980'' (London: A. & C. Black, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Festing
Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome * Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Francis (surname) Places * Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada * Francis, Saskatchewan, Canada **Francis (electoral district) * Francis, Nebraska *Francis Township, Holt County, Nebraska * Francis, Oklahoma *Francis, Utah Other uses * ''Francis'' (film), the first of a series of comedies featuring Francis the Talking Mule, voiced by Chill Wills *''Francis'', a 1983 play by Julian Mitchell * FRANCIS, a bibliographic database * ''Francis'' (1793), a colonial schooner in Australia * Francis turbine, a type of water turbine * Francis (band), a Sweden-based folk band * Francis, a character played by YouTuber Boogie2988 See also * Saint Francis (other) * Francies, a surname, including a list of people with the name * Francisco (disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Matthews (British Army Officer)
Major General Francis Raymond Gage Matthews CB DSO (26 January 1903 – 26 May 1976) was a British Army officer who served in the Second World War and later was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong. Military career After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Matthews was commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment on 1 February 1923. He transferred to the South Wales Borderers in 1935 while aide-de-camp to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta. He served in Palestine during the Arab revolt in Palestine, for which he was later mentioned in dispatches, before returning to the United Kingdom where he attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1937 to 1938. He served in the Second World War initially as a General Staff Officer and then as Commanding Officer of a battalion within the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. He went on to become Director of Military Training for the Middle East in 1943, Commander of 168th Brigade in May 1944 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Essame
Major General Hubert Essame, (24 December 1896 – 2 March 1976) was a British Army officer who fought in the First and Second World Wars. He was also a military lecturer, historian and broadcaster. Early life Born on 24 December 1896, Hubert Essame was the son of Ernest H. Essame of Wokingham. He was educated at Nottingham High School. Military career Essame joined the British Army during the First World War as a volunteer in 1915, and enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. He first saw active service on the Western Front in May 1916, and on 2 October he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Northamptonshire Regiment. He was wounded twice over the course of the war, mentioned in despatches in December 1917 and awarded the Military Cross in July 1918. In November 1924, Essame was promoted to captain. Between 1926 and 1929 he served as adjutant in the Auxiliary Forces in India, before attending the Staff College, Quetta, from 1929 to 1930. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Majendie
Major General Vivian Henry Bruce Majendie, (20 April 1886 – 13 January 1960) was a British Army officer and amateur cricketer for Somerset County Cricket Club. Military career The son of The Reverend Henry Majendie, Vivian Majendie was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry in 1905. He developed a career as a cricketer and played for Somerset and Devon. He served with the West African Frontier Force in Southern Nigeria from 1908 to 1913 and then in India from 1913 to 1914. Majendie fought in the First World War, moving with his battalion to France in 1915. He married the following year, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1917. He ended the war in 1918 as officer commanding the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, serving in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). After the war, Majendie became commander of the Amiens Sub Area of France and then, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Army Cadet Force
The Army Cadet Force (ACF), generally shortened to Army Cadets, is a national youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the British Army. Along with the Sea Cadet Corps and the Air Training Corps, the ACF make up the Community Cadet Forces. It is a separate organisation from the Combined Cadet Force which provides similar training within principally independent schools. Although sponsored by the Ministry of Defence, the ACF is not part of the British Army, and as such cadets are not subject to military 'call up'. Some cadets do, however, go on to enlist in the armed forces later in life, and many of the organisation's leaders have been cadets or have a military background. The Army Cadet Force Association (ACFA) is a registered charity that acts in an advisory role to the Ministry of Defence and other Government bodies on matters connected with the ACF. The Army Cadets is also a member of The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
