List of Officer Cadet Training Units

This is a list of Officer Cadet Training Units, or OCTUs, which were military establishments for training future commissioned officers of the British Army, the British Indian Army, and the Royal Air Force.

British Army

  • 102 (Westminster Dragoons) Officer Cadet Training Unit (TA), was at Westminster
  • 121 Officer Cadet Training Unit RA, was established at Aldershot and in 1941 moved to Alton Towers, Staffordshire and trained Royal Artillery
  • 122 Officer Cadet Training Unit RA trained Royal Artillery officers at Larkhill,Wiltshire.
  • 123 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Catterick Garrison, Yorkshire
  • 133 (AA) Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Shrivenham during the Second World War and trained cadets in Anti-Aircraft work
  • 148 Pre-Officer Cadet Training Unit Training Establishment was created in 1942 at Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, to standardize the first stage of cadet training; cadets went there for initial training and then proceeded to a specialist OCTU.
  • 161 Infantry Officer Cadet Training Unit (RMC), established in 1939, later became the Mons Officer Cadet Training Unit (Aldershot), which in 1960 was merged into the Mons Officer Cadet School.
  • 162 Officer Cadet Training Unit was formed in 1939 from the Infantry Battalion of the Honourable Artillery Company; it was at Lanark, Scotland, in 1942, and later became part of the York OCTU (previously No. 103)
  • 163 Officer Cadet Training Unit was formed during the Second World War from the Artists Rifles
  • 164 Officer Cadet Training Unit was formed in September 1940 at Barmouth, Merionethshire
  • 165 Officer Cadet Training Unit existed during the Second World War at Lauderdale House, Dunbar.
  • 168 Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Aldershot
  • The Eaton Hall Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, from 1946 until 1960, when it was also merged into the Mons Officer Cadet School.

British Indian Army

  • An Officer Cadet Training Unit was at Bangalore.

Royal Air Force