Hi All, where was this photo taken please? http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/king-george-vi-chats-to-women-of-the-auxiliary-territorial-news-photo/3335050 Also on film http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist/BHC_RTV/1939/10/26/BGU407240149/?v=0 King's visit to an Infantry Training Centre 23 October 1939? Need an answer of possible today. Thank you. Daniel.
The early wartime ITCs were based at Regimental Depots. The film tells us that the location is Reading and the picture seems to tie in with the Royal Berks depot, Brock Barracks - see image 5 on the link :- http://www.2ndroyalberkshire.co.uk/pic_brock.htm
Well spotted Rich and excellent link Thats the `Keep` in the background of your first photo http://www.2ndroyalberkshire.co.uk/images/brock/Brock_5.jpg http://www.bww1.org/communities/6/004/012/080/826/images/4602340795_pre.jpg Kyle
Brilliant thank yo so much. So would I be correct in writing: '...the King’s visit to the Infantry Training Centre at Brock Barracks, Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, 23 October 1939' ? Thank you.
I'd have said ...the King’s visit to the Royal Berkshire Regiment Depot at Brock Barracks, Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, 23 October 1939'
I don't know, Owen. It seems likely to me that the King was visiting it precisely because of its new rôle as an Infantry Training Centre. George Forty in his 'British Army Handbook' states :- "Before September 1919 (sic) all infantry training took place in the infantry regimental depots and lasted some four months. These depots were transformed into Infantry Training Centres (ITC) on the outbreak of war."
