In connexion with the National Reserve we may mention that
the Surrey National Reserve now numbers over 5,000 men and officers. It is from these figures that we deduce that the London National Reserve will ultimately reach 50,000. Surrey has roughly a tenth of the population served by the two London Associations, and therefore the London Reserve should ultimately be ten times as big as the Surrey Reserve. An analysis of the Surrey Reserve is worth a moment's con- sideration. Of the 5,000 over 3,000 officers and men belong to Section I., that is, are men not over forty-five years of age. About 1,700 are between forty-five and fifty-five, that is, men capable of doing garrison duty, if not of prolonged marches. Only some 300 are above the age of fifty-five. The London figures show results not dissimilar.
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