Pre 1914, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Volunteer Rifle Corps, RILEY, Peaked Forage Cap,1878

Charles Owen Leaver Riley (1854-1929), archbishop, was born on 26 May 1854 at Birmingham, England, eldest child of Rev. Lawrence William Riley, a Cheshire vicar, and his wife Emma, née Shaw. Riley was educated at Heversham Grammar School and Owens College, Manchester; he then attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he completed the mathematics tripos (B.A., 1878; M.A., 1881; D.D., 1894). From 1875 until 1878 he was a member of the Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers.
On 5 March 1860, the Vice Chancellor administered the oath of allegiance to the 3rd Cambridgeshire (Cambridge University) Rifle Volunteer Corps on the lawn of King’s College. The Prince of Wales, who was appointed as the honorary colonel of the corps on 8 March 1861, provided £50 to meet the expense of a new rifle range, and shooting became a prominent social activity of the cadets, and a source of inter-university competition with Oxford from 1868 onwards.
The Volunteer Force, established in 1859, was a citizen army that included part-time rifle, artillery, and engineer corps. It was created as a popular movement throughout the British Empire and became increasingly integrated with the British Army after the Childers Reforms in 1881. The Volunteer Force merged with the Yeomanry to form the Territorial Force in 1908, and most of the regiments of the present Army Reserves Infantry, Artillery, Engineers, and Signals units are directly descended from Volunteer Force units.