Territorial Army

noun

1. (in Britain) a standing reserve army originally organized between 1907 and 1908 Full nameTerritorial and Volunteer Reserve

Example Sentences

If still abroad at 37, they are entered in territorial army list and exempted.

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The terms of service are three years with the colours, three in the reserve and four in the territorial army.

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At the present moment the Territorial Army in Monmouthshire consists exactly of 17 men, all of whom are officers.

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But it is more vital that while the kingdom was in this sense one territorial army, the regiments of it were also kingdoms.

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But not only was the army small; it was a territorial army; it grew out of the soil.

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