The Ayrshire Yeomanry
1/1st
August
1914 : in Ayr. Part of the Lowland Mounted Brigade.
September
1915 : moved as dismounted troops to Gallipoli.
11
October 1915 : attached to 52nd (Lowland) Division.
February
1916 : Brigade transferred to 1st Dismounted Brigade, which was broken
up 16 October 1916. Regiment moved to 2nd Dismounted Brigade.
January
1917 : with the Lanarkshire Yeomanry, formed 12th (Ayr and Lanark Yeomanry)
Bn, the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Placed under orders of
229th Brigade in 74th (Yeomanry) Division.
21
June 1918 : moved to 94th Brigade, 31st Division.
2/1st
Formed
as a Second-Line regiment in September 1914, attached to 2/1st Lowland Mounted Brigade.
March
1916 : Brigade redesignated 20th Mounted Brigade.
July
1916 : converted into a Cyclist unit, in 13th Cyclist Brigade (which was
redesignated 9th Cyclist Brigade in November 1916).
Remained
in Scotland until moving to Ireland in May 1918, where it then remained.
3/1st
Formed
as a Third-Line training unit in 1915.
Remained in United Kingdom until disbanded in early 1917, when
the personnel went to the 2/1st and to the 4th (Reserve) Bn, the Royal
Scots Fusiliers.
Men who served with the Yeomanry can be researched in exactly the same way as, for example, infantrymen.
fourteeneighteen|research ![]()
reddit