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In 1915, the Army Cyclist Corps was founded to encompass these battalions; it later extended to cover a dozen more battalions raised from second-line yeomanry regiments which had been converted to cyclists. Most units of the Corps served out their time in the United Kingdom, providing replacement drafts to infantry battalions; some were ...
The Northern Cyclist Battalion was a bicycle infantry battalion of the Territorial Force, part of the British Army. Formed in 1908, it served in the United Kingdom throughout the First World War and in 1920 it was converted as part of the Royal Garrison Artillery .
In particular, based on war time experience, the Army decided to dispense with cyclists units and the existing battalions were either disbanded or converted to artillery or signals units. [13] However, the Huntingdonshire Battalion was converted to infantry and on 7 February 1920 was reconstituted as 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion ...
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
British Army cyclist in marching order, 1914–18. When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] the 2nd VB including the cyclist company formed the nucleus of the 5th (Cyclist) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment , although the new unit's HQ and half the companies ...
The battalion was newly raised [1] at Tonbridge on 1 April 1908 [2] as a bicycle infantry battalion of the British Army's Territorial Force.Initially designated as the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), in 1910 it was separated from the regiment and redesignated as the independent Kent Cyclist Battalion [3] so as to encourage recruitment from the eastern part of ...
II Corps Cyclist Battalion; 2nd (Pembroke and Glamorgan) Yeomanry Cyclist Regiment; V (North Irish Horse) Corps Cyclist Battalion; 6th Cyclist Brigade; 7th Cyclist Brigade; 8th Cyclist Brigade; 9th Cyclist Brigade; 10th Cyclist Brigade
Cyclist units and formations of the British Army (18 P) M. Military bicycles (5 P) ... Army Cyclist Corps; Australian Cycling Corps; C. Frontier Cyclists; I. Bicycle ...