Yeomanry Mounted Division

Yeomanry Mounted Division
ActiveJune 1917 – April 1918
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeYeomanry
SizeDivision
EngagementsFirst World War
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Major-General G. de S. Barrow

The Yeomanry Mounted Division was a Territorial Force cavalry division formed at Khan Yunis in Palestine in June 1917 from three yeomanry mounted brigades. It served in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War, mostly as part of the Desert Mounted Corps. In April 1918 six of the regiments were withdrawn from the division and sent to France, being converted from Yeomanry to battalions of the Machine Gun Corps. These were replaced by Indian Army cavalry regiments withdrawn from France, and the division was renamed 1st Mounted Division, the third such division to bear that title. In July the combined division was renamed as the 4th Cavalry Division.