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201: 56: 38: 334:, 415 former members of the University Company served in the army. The contingent continued to train throughout the war, although with depleted numbers. In 1916 the medical students began to train independently and were recognised as a sub-unit of the contingent. Sadly 78 members of the corps lost their lives, their names are remembered on a memorial board in the A Squadron Mess. 349:, the OTC was renamed Tayforth Universities OTC, as St Andrews, Dundee and Stirling Universities OTC was considered a bit of a mouthful. The name Tayforth was chosen as Dundee is situated on the River Tay and Stirling on the River Forth. The concern was that St Andrews, as the senior university may not agree with this name, however as the 318:
was formed, and St Andrews, being the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the UK, was naturally interested in this. A Military Education Committee was required to constitute the new Unit. As St Andrews already had an MEC set up, they were able to complete the whole range of business
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In May 1976, the Old Wyvernians formed as a non-regimental association for the former officer cadets of St Andrews University OTC. The inaugural meeting of the Tayforth Regimental Association was held on 16 June 1984, and was the first of its kind. Whilst other OTC's followed suit The Tayforth
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of 1715 and 1745. In 1859 a committee was formed in St Andrews to form a volunteer corps of both rifle and artillery. This was carried out in a town meeting on 5 December 1859 and was carried unanimously and
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pledged £20 per year to the Battery. Throughout its early history, the Battery followed an annual training programme including an annual camp, an annual dinner and a
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In 1881 Professor Peter Redford Scott Lang formed the St Andrews University Volunteer Battery of Artillery, named the
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in one afternoon, forming St Andrews University OTC. Such business included deciding on the uniform. The
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Anstruther No 7 Battery of the 1st Fife Brigade of Garrison Artillery
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Squadron, which draws its members from the universities of
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was decided to be the University shield surmounted by the
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United Kingdom
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Sandhurst Group
Army Reserves
Official site at army.mod.uk
Lt Col
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Government no. 8

St Salvator's Quad
Remembrance Day
University Officers' Training Corps
University of St Andrews
Dundee
Abertay
Stirling University
militia
Charles II
Jacobite rebellions
3rd (St Andrews) Fife Artillery Volunteers
Anstruther No 7 Battery of the 1st Fife Brigade of Garrison Artillery
Senatus Academicus
church service
St Salvator's Quadrangle
Military Education Committee (MEC)
Military Education
Officers' Training Corps
cap badge
King's Crown
World War I

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