Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps - Between The Wars

Between The Wars

In Britain, the Volunteer Army had been re-organised in 1908, absorbing the remaining militia and Yeomanry units, to form the Territorial Army (TA). The BVRC was re-organised along TA lines after the Great War. Its association with the Lincolnshire Regiment was made official, with the Lincolns taking on the paternal role it played with its own Territorial battalions. A third local Territorial, the Bermuda Volunteer Engineers, was formed in 1931, incorporating the signals section of the BVRC. The Regular Army artillery and infantry detachments to the garrison were reduced, again, after the war, and the local volunteers took on more of their role. There would no longer be a full infantry battalion in Bermuda. Instead, a detachment would be provided from the battalion sent to Jamaica.