(OTC) The Stonyhurst Officer Training Corps assembled for the first time on 16 October 1900, in the Ambulacrum, overseen by The First Volunteer Battalion, the East Lancashire Regiment who gave instruction in drill and musketry. The original uniform was scarlet with a white piping and slouch hat, which was changed to khaki before the First World War. The Corps was granted the honour of representation at the Coronation of 1910 and sent members to the Royal Review at Windsor in 1911. It also appeared on parade annually for the spectacle of the Corpus Christi celebrations until the practice became obsolete after Vatican II. Combined Cadet Corps (CCF) After the Second World War, school OTCs were succeeded by the Combined Cadet Force. Stonyhurst's is run from the College Armoury adjoining the Ambulacrum and Shooting Range, led by a team of officers under a Major assigned to the school. It meets weekly on a Thursday afternoon and comprises the following platoons named after Stonyhurst's seven Victoria Cross winners: Junior company Costello Platoon (Lieutenant Edmund William COSTELLO V.C., Malakand, India 1897) Coury Platoon (Second Lieutenant George Gabriel COURY V.C., Guillemont, Somme 1916) Liddell Platoon (Captain John Aiden LIDDELL V.C, Ostend, Belgium 1915) Kenna Platoon (Captain Paul Aloysius KENNA V.C., Khartoum, Sudan 1898) Senior company Dease Platoon (Lieutenant Maurice James DEASE V.C., Mons, Belgium 1914) Jackman Platoon (Captain James Joseph Bernard JACKMAN V.C., Ed Duda, Tobruk, 1941) Andrews Platoon (Captain Harold Marcus ERVINE-ANDREWS V.C., Dunkirk 1940) Support Platoon Those in Grammar Playroom (year ten) are automatically enrolled in the CCF and are given the option of continuing at the end of the year, following a summer camp which takes place at a local barracks. Training involves a range of activities such as drill (marching and related manoeuvres), shooting, learning how to assemble and clean weapons, tactical planning and team work. The school supplies pupils with uniform, the orderliness of which is rigorously enforced and inspected each week. Each platoon is led by a Junior Under Officer, his sergeant and corporals who are sixth form students. Military careers In recent years, some pupils have gone on to receive places at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. This follows a long tradition of service from Stonyhurst pupils: many Old Stonyhurst (O.S.) were killed in the two World Wars and are commemorated on the war memorial at the end of the Upper Gallery. The Stonyhurst War Records were