The Officers' Training Corps (OTC), more fully called the University Officers' Training Corps (UOTC), are military leadership training units operated by the British Army. Their focus is to develop the leadership abilities of their members whilst giving them an opportunity to take part in military life whilst at university. OTCs also organise non-military outdoor pursuits such as hill walking and mountaineering. UOTC units are not deployable units nor are their cadets classed as trained soldiers until completion of MOD 1 training. The majority of members of the UOTC do not go on to serve in the regular or reserve forces.
Gordon Barracks, home of Aberdeen UOTC
An Alvis Saladin armoured car of the Cambridge UOTC on exercise in 1974
Army Reserve Centre, Broadgate, home of the East Midlands UOTC
Forrest Road Drill Hall, home of Edinburgh UOTC from 1957 to 1993
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, was a British lawyer and philosopher and an influential Liberal and later Labour politician. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" of the British Army were implemented. As an intellectual he was fascinated with German thought. That led to his role in seeking detente with Germany in 1912 in the Haldane Mission. The mission was a failure and tensions with Berlin forced London to work more closely with Paris.
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
17 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, birthplace of Richard Haldane
Haldane caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1896
Haldane at West Point sometime before the Great War.