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The Scottish Horse was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army's Territorial Army raised in 1900 for service in the Second Boer War.It saw heavy fighting in both the First World War, as the 13th Battalion, Black Watch, and in the Second World War, as part of the Royal Artillery.
The Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade was a formation of the Territorial Force of the British Army, raised in August 1914, [a] during the First World War. After service in the Gallipoli Campaign and in the defence of Egypt , it was absorbed into the 1st Dismounted Brigade in February 1916.
The 19th Mounted Brigade previously known as the 2/1st Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade was a 2nd Line yeomanry brigade of the British Army during the First World War. In July 1916 it was converted to a cyclist formation as 12th Cyclist Brigade and redesignated as 8th Cyclist Brigade in November 1916. It was still in existence, in Ireland, at the ...
The two regiments co-sponsored the 20th (Fife and Forfarshire Light Horse) Company, IY, which served in 6th (Scottish) Battalion, IY. [ 4 ] In 1901 the 1st Fifeshire Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps and the 1st Forfarshire Light Horse Volunteer Corps amalgamated to form the Fifeshire and Forfarshire Imperial Yeomanry. [ 5 ]
13th (Scottish Horse Yeomanry) Abbassia, 1 October 1916, from the 1st and 2nd Scottish Horse Regiments Salonika, Western Front Returned to the Scottish Horse in 1919 14th (Fife and Forfar) Yeomanry Ismalia, 21 December 1916, from the 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry: Palestine, Western Front Returned to the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in 1919
However, soon after, the yeomanry was greatly expanded; two new regiments, the Welsh Horse and the 3rd Scottish Horse, were raised and all regiments, old and new, formed second line regiments, raising the total to 114. [16] Twelve regiments were broken up to provide divisional reconnaissance squadrons for infantry divisions on the Western Front.
The commission decided that only the 14 most senior regiments were to be retained as cavalry, the others being variously converted to armoured cars or artillery. However, two Scottish Yeomanry regiments remained mounted as 'Scouts': the Scottish Horse and the Lovat Scouts (reduced to a single regiment). [18] [19] Lovat Scouts in ghillie suits
The Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry was a Regiment of the British Yeomanry and is now an armoured Squadron of the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry (SNIY), part of the British Army Reserve. It is the Lowlands of Scotland's only Royal Armoured Corps Unit and has an unbroken history stretching back to the 1790s.