page_title: Officers' Training Corps
section_title: Southampton
hierarchical_section_title: Officers' Training Corps / History / Individual units / Southampton
caption_attribution_description: English: Drill Hall - Carlton Place, Southampton
context_page_description: The Officers' Training Corps, more fully called the University Officers' Training Corps, are military leadership training units similar to a university club but operated by the British Army. Their focus is to develop the leadership abilities of their members whilst giving them an opportunity to take part in military life whilst at university. OTCs also organise non-military outdoor pursuits such as hill walking and mountaineering. UOTC units are not deployable units nor are their cadets classed as trained soldiers. The majority of members of the UOTC do not go on to serve in the regular or reserve forces.
context_section_description: In November 1902 twenty students from Hartley University College raised a company, sanctioned by the War Office, which formed part of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment. Members of the company were commissioned into the 5th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment in 1914 and served on the Western Front during the First World War.
  A separate UOTC was formed in Southampton in November 1937, and the relationship with the Hampshire Regiment discontinued. However, after supplying significant numbers officers to the British Army during the Second World War, recruitment fell and the UOTC was placed in suspended animation in April 1951. The UOTC was reformed in October 1979 and moved to its present premises at Carlton Place in Southampton in 1981.
caption: Carlton Place, Southampton, home of Southampton UOTC
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