 Despite their vital responsibilities to the garrison, both units soon began planning to send contingents of volunteers to the Western Front.Nicknamed "Bullock's Boys" (after its Adjutant, Governor and Commander-in-Chief Major-General Sir George M. Bullock), the first of these units was raised as a detachment by the BVRC, and embodied at Warwick Camp in December, 1914.Many of its members had enlisted specifically for the Front, although others were already serving when the war began.