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Originally Posted by natehale1971
So would the Canadians and ANZACS send their troops as full Brigdes or Divisions as their Expeditiationary Forces who'd be used as full commands of their own?
As i said earilier I was thinking of African Rifles being one of the units like the Brigade of Gurkhas being part of the Commonwealth of Nations personnel recruited for fleshing out the British Armed Forces.
Would it be easier for the biggest expansions of the British Army to have come through the Territorial Army units?
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Yeah the Canadians and ANZACs woud have their own divisons/brigades and their own command linked in with british high command they way they operated back in WW1 and WW2.
The TA where established with future, emergency expansion in mind so yeah, they would do the lion's share of wartime expansion, but only in wartime.
If your talking about peactime expansion due to the threat of the Russian bear then it would be done the old fashioned way (slowly) as recruitment is stepped up and battalions formed organicly before being split offfrom parent regiments to form their own regiment (like I mentioned with the 9th/12th lancers).
The inherent beuty of the regimental system is it is surprisingly easy to expand as it is to cut down, all you need are numbers and time.