Territorial Army And Air Force Association
The Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Associations were formed in 1908 under the provisions of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 to provide local support to the Territorial Force in the United Kingdom. There were originally 104 County Territorial Associations, one for each county. The Lord Lieutenant of each county was ex-officio president of their Association. In 1922 the title was changed to Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association when the Auxiliary Air Force was formed. In 1967 the County Associations were amalgamated into 14 Associations. Under the Reserve Forces Act 1996 they were renamed Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations in 1999. References

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Territorial And Reserve Forces Act 1907
The Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (''7 Edw. 7, c.9'') was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the auxiliary forces of the British Army by transferring existing Volunteer and Yeomanry units into a new Territorial Force (TF); and disbanding the Militia to form a new Special Reserve of the Regular Army. This reorganisation formed a major part of the Haldane Reforms, named after the creator of the Act, Richard Haldane. The lessons learned during the South African War of 1899-1902 had reinforced the idea that the Regular Army was not capable of fighting a prolonged full-scale war without significant assistance; almost all regular units in the United Kingdom had been deployed overseas within four months of the outbreak of hostilities. Furthermore, by the end of the first year of fighting, the Regular Reserve and the Militia Reserve had been entirely exhausted. (Regular reservists were members of the Regular Army who had retired from the active-duty ...
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