Structure
On formation, the TF contained 14 infantry divisions, and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades. The individual units that made up each division or brigade were administered by County Associations, with the county's lord lieutenant as president. The other members of the association consisted of military members (chosen from the commanding officers of the units), representative members (nominated by the county councils and county boroughs in the lieutenancy county) and co-opted members (often retired military officers). Associations took over any property vested in the volunteers or yeomanry under their administration.
The basic building block was the yeomanry regiment or infantry battalion; these numbered 54 regiments of yeomanry, and 207 battalions of territorial infantry. In addition, there were 23 volunteer batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery, 151 of the Royal Field Artillery, and 14 of the Royal Horse Artillery, as well as volunteer engineer, medical and supply companies. Each regiment or battalion had a regular army officer attached as full-time adjutant.
Every Territorial battalion of infantry was attached to a regular Army regiment; for example, the Royal Scots had two regular battalions, a reserve battalion, and seven Territorial battalions numbered the 4th through 10th.
The original divisions of the Territorial Army were:
- East Anglian Division (comprising units recruited in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk)
- East Lancashire Division (Cumberland, part of Lancashire and Westmorland)
- Highland Division (Cities of Aberdeen and Dundee, counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyllshire, Banffshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, Elginshire, Fife, Forfarshire, Inverness-shire, Kinross-shire, Nairnshire, Renfrewshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Sutherland and part of Lanarkshire)
- Home Counties Division (Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex)
(broken up in India, December 1914)
- Lowland Division (Cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Counties of Berwickshire, Dumfriesshire, Haddingtonshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Linlithgowshire, Midlothian, Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, Wigtownshire and part of Lanarkshire)
- 1st London Division (City of London and part of the County of London)
- 2nd London Division (part of the County of London)
- North Midland Division (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Staffordshire)
- Northumbrian Division (County Durham, Northumberland, East and North Ridings of Yorkshire)
- South Midland Division (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire)
- West Lancashire Division (part of Lancashire)
- West Riding Division (West Riding of Yorkshire)
- Welsh Division (Wales, Cheshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and Shropshire)
- Wessex Division (Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire)
The original mounted brigades were:
- Eastern Mounted Brigade
- Highland Mounted Brigade
- London Mounted Brigade
- Lowland Mounted Brigade
- North Midland Mounted Brigade
- Notts and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade
- South Eastern Mounted Brigade
- 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade
- 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade
- South Wales Mounted Brigade
- 1st South Western Mounted Brigade
- 2nd South Western Mounted Brigade
- Welsh Border Mounted Brigade
- Yorkshire Mounted Brigade
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