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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3rd Mounted Brigade and remained mounted. In exchange, the 10th Mounted Brigade (2/1st South Midland) joined as the 8thCyclistBrigade. The Headquarters...
Northamptonshire Yeomanry. 1st – 8thCyclistBrigades of the 1st and 2nd Cyclist Divisions were reorganized as the 1st – 4th CyclistBrigades when their divisions...
Companies, Royal Engineers (TF) Divisional Cyclist Company Royal Naval Division Major-General A. Paris 1st (Naval) Brigade Drake Battalion Nelson Battalion Deal...
the regiment swapped horses for bicycles and joined the 8thCyclistBrigade in the 2nd Cyclist Division. In November, the regiment was merged with the...
existing cyclist company at Sunderland transferred from the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Initially designated as the 8th (Cyclist) Battalion...
The cyclistbrigades were dispersed and the yeomanry regiments were amalgamated in pairs to form Yeomanry Cyclist Regiments in new cyclistbrigades. Two...
were converted to cyclists (and the brigade became 12th CyclistBrigade, later 8thCyclistBrigade) still in Lincolnshire. At the end of 1917, they moved...
July 1916, the regiment was converted to a cyclist unit in 8thCyclistBrigade, 2nd Cyclist Division, and was stationed in the Maidstone area of Kent....
1st Cyclist company Engineers 23rd Field company Royal Engineers 26th Field company Royal Engineers 2nd Division (Charles Monro) 4th (Guards) Brigade 2nd...
July 1915) and then 1st Provisional Brigade. The composition of 1st Provisional Brigade was then as follows: 1/8th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (insufficient...
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