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Military Identities
The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People c.1870-2000
French, David Professor of History, University College London
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925803-1




CHAPTER ONE The Cardwell–Childers Reforms and the Re-creation of the Regimental System
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199258031.003.0002

David French
Abstract: This chapter explores the background to the Cardwell-Childers reforms, explains what the reforms were trying to achieve, and analyses the four different varieties of regimental structures that the reforms created within the late 19th-century British army.

Keywords: Cardwell-Childers reforms, regimental structures, British army,

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Introduction
CHAPTER ONE The Cardwell–Childers Reforms and the Re-creation of the Regimental System
CHAPTER TWO Recruiting for the Regiments
CHAPTER THREE Basic Training
CHAPTER FOUR The Construction of the Idea of ‘the Regiment’
CHAPTER FIVE Barrack Life
CHAPTER SIX The Leadership of the Regimental System: Officers and NCOs
CHAPTER SEVEN Deviancy and Discipline in the Regimental System
CHAPTER EIGHT The Auxiliary Regiments
CHAPTER NINE Civilians and their Regiments
CHAPTER TEN The Regimental System and the Battlefield
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Creation of the Post-modern Regimental System, c.1945–1970
CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Index
 
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