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8th Cyclist Brigade information


2/1st Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade
19th Mounted Brigade
12th Cyclist Brigade
8th Cyclist Brigade
ActiveSeptember 1914–November 1918
Country8th Cyclist Brigade United Kingdom
Branch8th Cyclist Brigade British Army
TypeYeomanry
Bicycle infantry
SizeBrigade
ServiceWorld War I

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 end of the war.

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