The Volunteer Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army

The Territorial Force Mounted Brigades 1910-14

The Territorial Force was an army for home defence and for the first time higher tactical formations were created in the volunteer forces. For the Cavalry there were fourteen Mounted Brigades, each of three Yeomanry Regiments. Each Brigade also had a Battery of Royal Horse Artillery, a transport and supply column and a field ambulance.

Below are the Yeomanry Regiments and the Mounted Brigades they were part of.

See the Artillery Volunteers section for the artillery units of the Mounted Brigades.

The Suffolk Yeomanry (The Duke of York’s Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars) (TF)	}	The Eastern Mounted Brigade
The Norfolk Yeomanry (The King’s Own Royal Regiment) (TF)
The Essex Yeomanry (TF)
The Hertfordshire Yeomanry (TF)	attached
The Bedfordshire Yeomanry (TF)	attached
The Northamptonshire Yeomanry (TF)	attached

The Royal East Kent (The Duke of Connaught’s Own) Yeomanry (Mounted Rifles) (TF)	}	The South Eastern Mounted Brigade
The West Kent Yeomanry (Queen’s Own) (TF)
The Sussex Yeomanry (TF)
The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary’s Regiment) (Lancers) (TF)	attached

The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) (TF)	}	The London Mounted Brigade
1^st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex, The Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars) (TF)
3^rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) (TF)
2^nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) (TF)	attached

The Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own) (TF)	}	The Yorkshire Mounted Brigade
The Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry (Queen’s Own) (TF)
The East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry (TF)
The Northumberland Hussars (Yeomanry) (TF)	attached

The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales’s Own) (TF)	}	1^st South Western Mounted Brigade
The North Somerset Yeomanry (TF)
The Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers) (TF)

The Royal 1^st Devon Yeomanry (TF)	}	2^nd South Western Mounted Brigade
The Royal North Devon Yeomanry (TF)
The West Somerset Yeomanry (TF)

The Shropshire Yeomanry (TF)	}	The Welsh Border Mounted Brigade
The Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester’s) (TF)
The Denbighshire (Hussars) Yeomanry (TF)
The Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry (TF)	attached
The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry (TF)	attached
The Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry (TF)	attached

The Pembroke Yeomanry (Castlemartin) (Hussars) (TF)	}	The South Wales Mounted Brigade
The Montgomeryshire Yeomanry (TF)
The Glamorganshire Yeomanry (TF)
The Welsh Horse (TF)	attached

The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers) (TF)	}	The Notts and Derby Mounted Brigade
The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) (TF)
The Derbyshire Yeomanry (TF)

The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Royal Regiment) (TF)	}	The North Midland Mounted Brigade
The Leicestershire (Prince Albert’s Own) Yeomanry (TF)
The Lincolnshire Yeomanry (TF)

The Fifeshire and Forfarshire Yeomanry (TF)	}	The Highland Mounted Brigade
1^st Lovat Scouts (TF)
2^nd Lovat Scouts (TF)

The Ayrshire (Earl of Garrick’s Own) Yeomanry (TF)	}	The Lowland Mounted Brigade
The Lanarkshire Yeomanry (TF)
The Lothians and Border Horse (TF)

The Warwickshire Yeomanry (TF)	}	1^st South Midland Mounted Brigade
The Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) (TF)
The Worcestershire Yeomanry (The Queen’s Own Worcestershire Hussars) (TF)

The Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars) (TF)	}	2^nd South Midland Mounted Brigade
The Berkshire (Hungerford) Yeomanry (TF)
The Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars) (TF)

1^st Scottish Horse (TF)	unattached in Scottish Command
2^nd Scottish Horse (TF)	unattached in Scottish Command
3^rd Scottish Horse (TF)	unattached in Scottish Command

The Yeomanry Regiments of the Territorial Force (TF) and the Special Reserve in 1914

The Creation of the Territorial Army (TA) from 1920 to 1922

The Regiments of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1939

The Recreation of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1947

The Reductions from 1947 and 1961

The Regiments of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1961

The Regiments of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR) in 1967

The Royal Armoured Corps Regiments of the Territorial Army in 2010

The Royal Armoured Corps Regiments of the Army Reserve in 2023

Alphabetical List of the Regiments