When the Volunteer Force was subsumed into the Territorial Force under the Haldane Reforms in 1908,Beckett, pp. 247–53.Spiers, Chapter 10. the unit became the Essex and Suffolk Brigade, RGA, as a defended ports unit,Litchfield, p. 65. with a new headquarters built at Dovercourt in 1911. By 1914 it was organised as follows:Frederick, p. 697.Maurice-Jones, p. 166.
