Durham University formed the "K" Company of the 3rd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers in 1908. With the formation of the Officers' Training Corps later in that year, this was transferred to the OTC. The UOTC sent a detachment to London to act as part of the Guard of honour at the coronation of King George V in June 1911. Some 2,464 members of Durham University (including Armstrong College and the College of Medicine in Newcastle, both now part of Newcastle University) served in the First World War, with 325 being killed, along with 525 members of Bede College (then an associated college rather than part of the university), of whom 91 were killed. In a serious accident in April 1955, four officer cadets from the UOTC were killed when they were hit by a de Havilland Chipmunk at Otterburn.