The Essex Territorials after the Great War 1920-1930
On 7 February 1920 the Territorial Army
was reconstituted into peacetime with 4 Battalions.
Brigade Commanders
April
1920 Colonel E C da Costa CMG , DSO
April 1924 Colonel T N S M Howard CB,
DSO
April 1928 Colonel F C Rasch
4th Battalion based at Gordon
Road, Ilford
March
1920 Colonel C H R Taylor OBE TD
June 1920 Colonel B C Wells DSO TD
June 1928
Lieut-Colonel J L French
5th battalion based at Market
Road, Chelmsford
March
1920 Colonel T Gibbons DSO TD
January 1922 Colonel Sir F C Rasch
January 1928
Lieut-Colonel C Portway
6th battalion based at the
Cedars, West Ham
March
1920 Lieut-Colonel B J Ward TD
February 1924 Lieut-Colonel P D Castle
TD
September 1925
Lieut-Colonel E A Loftus OBE TD
February 1930 Lieut-Colonel F R Waller
Training Camps
Annual
training camps were held at the end of July each year usually
lasting two weeks.
1920 Clacton
1921 Bexhill
1922 Clacton
1923 St Osyth
1924 Dover
1925 Canterbury
1926 Melton, Suffolk
1927 Brentwood
1928 Seaford
1929 Aldershot
1930 Worthing
Source - The Essex Regiment Vol 5 by John Wm Burrows
