We are glad to hear that the Veteran Reserve formed
in Surrey from men with military training living in the county, but not now connected with any military unit, has proved a very great success. Its strength is not only maintained but is actually increasing, and an appropriate organisation has been given to the Reserve. There are now some seventeen companies under local commandants. On the official formation of the Reserve last June it numbered only some fourteen hundred men and officers. The numbers are now over seventeen hundred, and a good many more men are coming in than are leaving it. In all probability early in the New Year it will reach two thousand. In other words, Surrey, beyond her regular Territorial Force, would be able in case of invasion to supply two extra battalions formed of extraordinarily good materiaL
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