The Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry [UK]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 1 November 2000. Corrected and updated 16.07.2006

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	Lothians and Border Horse
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Titles & Lineage History & War Service Battle Honours Colours, Standards and Guidons	Badges and Uniforms Colonels Traditions Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.

How to find information about individuals who served in this corps

Titles and Lineage

Scottish County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles


	1797.05.07	East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry one troop raised at Haddington
	1802.07.13	second troop raised
	1803	third and fourth troop raised
	1823	reduced to one troop
	1828.03.27	one troop retained with no pay
	1831	placed on pay
	1838	disbanded

	1846.05.16	East Lothian Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry re-formed (one troop?) with HQ at Dunbar; increased to three troops by 1850
	1857	Berwickshire troop raised and regimented
	1870	West Lothian troop raised and regimented
	1877	Midlothian troop raised and regimented
	1888	Lothians and Berwickshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry HQ at Dunbar
	1893.04.01	troops reorganised in squadrons
	1900	sponsored 19th Coy, 6th (Scottish) Bn, Imperial Yeomanry
	1901.04.17	Lothians and Berwickshire Imperial Yeomanry reorganised in four sqns and MG sec (HQ at Dunbar)
	1908.04.01	Lothians and Border Horse transferred to T.F. with HQ at Edinburgh, constituting the yeomanry for the Lothians, Berwickshire, Pebbles-shire, Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire; trained and equipped as dragoons
		A Squadron at Dunbar (dets at Earlston, Greenlaw, North Berwick, Musselburgh, Lauder, Kelso, Berwick, Haddington, Tranent, East Linton, Duns, Coldstream) B Squadron at Edinburgh (dets at Musselburgh, Dalkeith, Esbank, Penicuik, Gorebridge, Lasswade, Loanhead) C Squadron at Hawick (dets at Galashiels, Jedburgh, Innerleithen, Kelso, Melrose, Newcastleton, Peebles, Selkirk, Stow, Yetholm, St. Boswells) D Squadron at Edinburgh (dets at Linlithgow, Bathgate, Broxburn, Hopetoun, Mid-Calder, South Queensferry, Ratho, Winchburgh)
	1920.02.07	reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Edinburgh
	1920.05.21	1st (Lothians and Border) Armoured Car Company, Tank Corps at Edinburgh
		19th (Lothians and Border) Armoured Car Company, Tank Corps
	1923.10.18	19th (Lothians and Border) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps
	1939.04.30	transferred to Royal Armoured Corps
	1939.08.24	1st Lothians and Border Horse
	1947.01.01	1st/2nd Lothians and Border Horse reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Edinburgh
		A Squadron at ? B Squadron at ? C Squadron at ?
	1956.10.20	amalgamated with Lanarkshire Yeomanry, and Queen's Own Glasgow Yeomanry, to form The Queen's Own Lowland Yeomanry

	1992.11.01	HQ (Lothians and Border Horse) Squadron, The Scottish Yeomanry at Edinburgh, reconstituted from 225 Sqn, 154 (Lowland) Regt RCT, having unamalgamated from The Queen's Own Lowland Yeomanry sqn in that regt
	1999.07.01	disbanded



*Associated Regular Regiments:*
	Dragoons	1908-1920
	4th Royal Tank Regiment	1924-1956
	The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)	1992-1999

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Volunteers


	*History:*
		Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry, by Diana M. Henderson (Scots at War) [Internet Archive]
		Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry (Scottish Military Historical Society)
		The Lothians and Border Horse, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War).

	*Deployment and War Service of Units:*


	*Biography and Gallantry Awards:*
		[no external sites have been found]

	*Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:*
		[no external sites have been found]

	*Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:*
		[no external sites have been found]

Battle Honours

Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars


	South Africa 1900-01 The Great War: France and Flanders 1915, Doiran 1918, Macedonia 1915-18 The Second World War: Somme 1940, Withdrawal to Seine, St. Valery-en-Caux, Falaise, Falaise Road, Laison, Le Havre, Boulogne 1944, Calais 1944, Scheldt, Westkapelle, Geilenkirchen, Roer, Reichswald, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Bou Arada, Kasserine, Thala, Fondouk, Sidi Ali, Bordj, Djebel Kournine, Tunis, Hammam Lif, Bou Ficha, North Africa 1942-43, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Monte Piccolo, Monte Rotondo, Capture of Perugia, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Argenta Gap, Italy 1944-45

Colours, Standards and Guidons

Introduction to Colours


	Record of Colours:

Uniforms and Badges

Badges:

Uniform:

tartan: Government (pipers' kilts & plaids)

Honorary Colonels

Index of Royal Colonels


	Commandant:
	1797.06.01	Lt-Col. James G. Baird, Bt.

	1848.06.12	Maj. James Maitland Balfour

	1872.02.24	Lt-Col. G., Earl of Haddington, KT
	Honorary Colonel:
	1894.10.24	Col. G., Earl of Haddington, KT, TD, ADC
	<1920>	vacant
	1926.10.06	Lt-Col. The Marquess of Linlithgow, KT, GCSI, GCIE, OBE, TD [also Edinburgh Univ OTC]
	1946.02.16	Maj. J.G. Crabbe, OBE, MC
	1956.06.19	Col. Christopher James York Dallmeyer, DSO, TD [continued 1956? in Q O Lowland Yeo]

	1992-1997	vacant?

Traditions


	Motto:
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:
	Marches:
	Musicians:	Pipes & Drums formed 1941, transferred 1946 to Royal Scots Greys.
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*

Bibliography

How To Find Books


	Short Histories:
		Marshall, James Rissik. Outline of regimental history of the 19th (Lothians and Border Horse) Armoured Car Co. Edinburgh : Thomas Allen & Sons, 1928.
		*The 19th (Lothians and Border Horse) Armoured Car Company : brief outline of the regimental history. [s.l.* : s.n.], 1933.

	First World War:
		Brown, W. Sorley (William Sorley) (ed.). War record of 4th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers and Lothians and Border Horse : with history of the T.F. Associations of the counties of Roxburgh, Berwick, and Selkirk. Galashiels : Published on behalf of the T.F. Associations by John McQueen & Son, 1920.

	Second World War:
		Woolward, W. A. A short account of the 1st Lothians and Border Yeomanry in the campaigns of 1940 and 1944-45. Edinburgh : Lothians and Border Regimental Association, 1946.
		Antonio, D. G. Driver advance : being a short account of the 2nd Lothians and Border Horse, 1939-1946. Edinburgh : printed by T. & A. Constable Ltd., 1947.