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The Intelligence Corps (also known as Int Corps) is one of the corps
Corps

A Corps is either a large formation , or an administrative grouping of troops within an armed force with a common function such as Artillery or Signals representing an arm of service....
 of the British Army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
. It is responsible for gathering, analysing and disseminating military intelligence
Military intelligence

Military intelligence , is a military service that uses List of intelligence gathering disciplines which informs the commanders' decision making process by providing intelligence analysis of Intelligence from a wide range of sources including forecast environmental changes , and opposing force intentions....
 and also for counter-intelligence
Counter-intelligence

Intelligence cycle management, and, by extension, the overall defenses of nations, are vulnerable to attack. It is the role of intelligence cycle security to protect the process embodied in the intelligence cycle, and that which it defends....
 and security
Security

Security is the degree of protection against danger, loss, and criminals. Individuals or actions that encroach upon the condition of protection are responsible for a "breach of security."...
. The Director Intelligence Corps is a Brigadier
Brigadier

Brigadier is a military Military rank, the meaning of which has a considerable variation....
.

History
Although the first proposals to create one came in 1905, the first Intelligence Corps was formed in 1914 and originally included only officers and their servants.






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The Intelligence Corps (also known as Int Corps) is one of the corps
Corps

A Corps is either a large formation , or an administrative grouping of troops within an armed force with a common function such as Artillery or Signals representing an arm of service....
 of the British Army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
. It is responsible for gathering, analysing and disseminating military intelligence
Military intelligence

Military intelligence , is a military service that uses List of intelligence gathering disciplines which informs the commanders' decision making process by providing intelligence analysis of Intelligence from a wide range of sources including forecast environmental changes , and opposing force intentions....
 and also for counter-intelligence
Counter-intelligence

Intelligence cycle management, and, by extension, the overall defenses of nations, are vulnerable to attack. It is the role of intelligence cycle security to protect the process embodied in the intelligence cycle, and that which it defends....
 and security
Security

Security is the degree of protection against danger, loss, and criminals. Individuals or actions that encroach upon the condition of protection are responsible for a "breach of security."...
. The Director Intelligence Corps is a Brigadier
Brigadier

Brigadier is a military Military rank, the meaning of which has a considerable variation....
.

History


Although the first proposals to create one came in 1905, the first Intelligence Corps was formed in 1914 and originally included only officers and their servants. The unit was rapidly run down after the First World War
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 and was finally disbanded in 1929. On 19 July 1940 a new Intelligence Corps was created by Army Order 112 and has existed since that time. On 1 February 1985 the corps was officially declared an 'Arm' (combat support) instead of a 'Service' (rear support).

Corps Traditions


Intelligence Corps personnel wear a distinctive cypress
Cupressus

The genus Cupressus is one of several genera within the Family Cupressaceae that have the common name cypress; for the others, see cypress....
 green beret
Beret

A beret is a soft round cap, usually of wool felt, with a flat crown, which is worn by both men and women and traditionally associated with France....
 with a cap badge
Cap badge

A cap badge, also known as head badge or hat badge, is a badge worn on uniform headgear and distinguishes the wearer's nationality and/or organisation....
 consisting of a union rose
Tudor rose

The Tudor rose is the traditional floral heraldic badge of England and takes its name and origins from the Tudor dynasty....
 (a red rose with a white centre) between two laurel
Bay Laurel

The Bay Laurel , also known as True Laurel, Sweet Bay, Grecian Laurel, Laurel, or Bay Tree, is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub reaching 10?18 m tall, native to the Mediterranean region....
 branches and surmounted by a crown. Their motto is Manui Dat Cognitio Vires (Knowledge gives strength to the arm). The Corps' quick march is "The Rose & Laurel" while its slow march is Purcell
Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell...
's "Trumpet Tune & Ayre".

Locations


Their headquarters, formerly at Maresfield, East Sussex, then Templer Barracks at Ashford, Kent
Ashford, Kent

Ashford is a town in the Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the River Great Stour, M20 motorway, South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways....
, moved in 1997 to the former Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the United Kingdom's air force, the oldest independent air force in the world. Formed on 1 April 1918, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history ever since, playing a large part in World War II and in more recent conflicts....
 station at Chicksands
RAF Chicksands

RAF Chicksands was a Royal Air Force station in Bedfordshire, England, which closed in 1997 when responsibility for the camp was taken over by the British Army Intelligence Corps....
 in Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire is a county in England that forms part of the East of England Regions of England.Its county town is Bedford, Bedfordshire. It borders Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire....
 along with the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre
Defence Intelligence and Security Centre

Defence Intelligence and Security Centre is the location of the Headquarters of both the Defence College of Intelligence and the British Army Intelligence Corps....
 and the Intelligence Corps Museum.

Training and promotion


The corps has a particularly high proportion of commissioned officers, many of them commissioned from the ranks, and also a high percentage of female members. Non-commissioned personnel join as Operators Military Intelligence, with the possibility of specialising as Operator Military Intelligence (Linguist) later. They do their basic 14-week military training at the Army Training Regiment
Army Training Regiment

An Army Training Regiment is a unit of the British Army which conducts basic training for all new recruits, less adult Infantry recruits who are trained at the ITC at Catterick North Yorkshire, and some non-infantry TA units ....
 Winchester and their 27-week special-to-arm training at Templer Training Delivery Wing, Chicksands, at the end of which they are promoted to Lance Corporal
Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal is a military rank, used by many armed forces worldwide, and also by some police forces and other uniformed organizations. It is below the rank of Corporal, and is typically the lowest Non-commissioned officer or enlisted rank, usually equivalent to the Ranks and insignia of NATO....
. Up until 2005, linguists would then do a 78-week language course at either Chicksands or the Defence School of Languages in Beaconsfield, at the end of which they would be promoted to Acting Corporal
Corporal

Corporal is a Military rank in use in some form by most militaries and also by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to Ranks and insignia of NATO....
. At present, both Operator Military Intelligence and Linguist must first complete a tour of duty, and it is typically after about two years' service that those opting for language training will receive instructions for joining a long language course.

Promotion continues to be more rapid than in most other corps. Officers complete their training at Sandhurst
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst , commonly known simply as Sandhurst, is the British Army Commissioned officer initial training centre....
 and then a Junior Officers Course (JOC) to qualify them as Intelligence Officers.

Structure


The main formation is 1 Military Intelligence Brigade. 1 MI Brigade has responsibility for three regular and two Territorial Army
Territorial Army

The Territorial Army is the volunteer Military reserve force of the British Army, the army of the United Kingdom, and composed mostly of part-time soldiers paid at a similar rate, while engaged on military activities, as their Regular equivalents....
 battalions:
  • 1 Military Intelligence Battalion - Rheindahlen
  • 2 Military Intelligence Battalion - Netheravon
    Netheravon

    Netheravon is a village in the England county of Wiltshire....
  • 3 Military Intelligence Battalion (Volunteer) - London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  • 4 Military Intelligence Battalion - Bulford
    Bulford

    Bulford is a village and civil parish in the Salisbury district of Wiltshire, England, close to Salisbury Plain. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,698....
  • 5 Military Intelligence Battalion (Volunteer) - Coulby Newham
    Coulby Newham

    Coulby Newham is a large housing estate in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, with a resident population of 10,700....


The tri-service 15 Psychological Operations Group is also based at Chicksands and comes under the remit of the Intelligence Corps and 1 MI Brigade.

Notable members of the Intelligence Corps

  • Sarah Bryant
    Sarah Bryant

    Sarah Bryant may refer to:*Sarah Bryant , contemporary science fiction writer*Sarah Bryant , character from the Virtua Fighter series*Sarah Bryant , British servicewoman who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008...
    , first female British soldier to die in Afghanistan
  • John Buchan
    John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

    John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom novelist, best known for his novel The Thirty-nine Steps, and Unionist Party politician who served as Governor General of Canada....
    , author and politician
  • Jabron Hashmi
    Jabron Hashmi

    Lance-Corporal Jabron Hashmi or Jibran Hashmi was the first British soldier of the Islamic faith to die in the War on Terror.Hashmi was born in Peshawar, Pakistan, and moved to United Kingdom with his family when he was 12....
    , first Muslim British soldier killed in Afghanistan
  • Christopher Hill (historian)
    Christopher Hill (historian)

    John Edward Christopher Hill, usually known simply as Christopher Hill, February 6, 1912–February 23, 2003 was an England Marxist historian and author of many history textbooks....
    , spent most of the Second World War serving with the corps.
  • Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, first Director General of UNESCO
    UNESCO

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
     and one of the founders of The World Wide Fund for Nature
    World Wide Fund for Nature

    The World Wide Fund for Nature is an Internationalism non-governmental organization for the Conservation biology, Environmental science and Restoration ecology of the environment , formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in the United States and Canada....
     (WWF)
  • General Sir Mike Jackson, formerly Chief of the General Staff
  • Bernard Lewis
    Bernard Lewis

    Bernard Lewis is a British-American historian, Orientalist, and pundit . He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University....
    , historian of Islam
  • Anthony Powell
    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Dymoke Powell, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975....
    , author
  • Laurens van der Post
    Laurens van der Post

    Sir Laurens Jan van der Post was a 20th century Afrikaner author of many books, farmer, hero, :wikt:adviser to United Kingdom heads of government, godparent of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and conservationist....
    , author
  • Peter Alan Rayner
    Peter Alan Rayner

    Peter Alan Rayner was a United Kingdom Author of numismatic books. He was known by his second name Alan, rather than his first to avoid confusion with Peter Seaby, also a popular author, whose family firm Rayner joined at the age of 24....
    , author
  • C. G. H. Simon
    C. G. H. Simon

    Christopher Gordon Horsfall Simon Justice of the Peace , known as C. G. H. Simon, was a United Kingdom Taxation in the United Kingdom of Income Tax....
    , tax commissioner
  • Maurice Oldfield
    Maurice Oldfield

    Sir Maurice Oldfield Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the British Empire , was a British People intelligence officer and espionage Administration ....
    , former Head of the Secret Intelligence Service
  • Chaim Herzog
    Chaim Herzog

    Chaim Herzog served as the sixth President of Israel , following a distinguished career in both the British Army and the Israel Defense Forces ....
    , former President of Israel


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