[2] Junior Leaders' Regiments began in the mid-1950s, growing from the earlier system of 'Boy Service', and continued into the 1990s.
These included: Training was provided in the following categories: Education Junior Leaders were given the opportunity to study for and pass the then Army Certificate of First Class Education, thus qualifying them to eventually achieve Warrant Officer and Commissioned Officer rank.
All forms of active pursuits were encouraged and included canoeing, sailing, rock climbing, map reading, cooking in the field and survival in arduous conditions.
Junior Leaders also attended military and civilian Outward Bound courses in the UK and abroad.
A wide variety of sporting activities were available and competitions with military and civilian youth organisations in the UK and abroad were encouraged.
The Royal Bermuda Regiment, the British Army's territorial home-defence battalion for the British Overseas Territory (and former Imperial fortress)[11] of Bermuda,[12] operated its own Junior Leaders programme, starting with nineteen boys who passed out at Warwick Camp on 19 December 1969, thereafter forming the Junior Leaders Company.