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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
13th (Western) Divisional Cyclist Company, Army Cyclist Corps [37] 13th (Western) Divisional Train A.S.C. [37] 120th, 121st, 122nd, 123rd Companies (left June 1915) [37] 38th and 40th Brigade Transport and Supply Columns, new Divisional Transport and Supply Column (merged and formed 1 August 1918, renamed as 13th (Western) Divisional Train)
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
26th Divisional Cyclist Company, Army Cyclist Corps (formed 4 January 1915, left 16 December 1916) 26th Divisional Train ASC. 202nd, 203rd, 204th and 205th Companies ASC (transferred to 32nd Division November 1915) 112th, 113th, 114th and 115th Coys ASC (joined from 11th (Northern) Division)) 38th Mobile Veterinary Section AVC