page_title: Officers' Training Corps
section_title: Leeds
hierarchical_section_title: Officers' Training Corps / History / Individual units / Leeds
caption_attribution_description: English: Carlton Barracks
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 January 1909, the Leeds University contingent of the Officers' Training Corps was formally raised in response to the recommendations of the committee formed by Lord Haldane. The contingent was initially based at Woodhouse Lodge. During the First World War some 1,596 officers were recruited from Leeds University: of these some 328 were killed. The contingent received an inspection by King George V on 27 September 1915. Captain David Hirsch, a former member of the contingent, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on the Western Front during the First World War.
  Leeds UOTC is based at Carlton Barracks in Leeds. Since September 2011 it has formed part of the Yorkshire Officer Training Regiment.
caption: Carlton Barracks, home of Leeds UOTC
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