YOUNG soldiers have marched off on their way to a new career after graduating from the Army’s training college.

Hundreds of youngsters aged 16 and 17-years-old have completed a a 42-week long course and a shorter 22-week course at The Army Foundation College in Harrogate, which trains them for a wide variety of Army careers.

The soldiers on the 42-week course marched off the square to the second phase of their training in the Infantry, Royal Artillery, Royal Armoured Corps and Royal Logistic Corps.

The company on the shorter 22-week course, designed for other cap badges, headed for the longer more specialist phase of their training which could include becoming a vehicle mechanic with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineer or a communications systems operator with the Royal Signals.