List of British Army Yeomanry Regiments converted to Royal Artillery

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This is a list of British Army Yeomanry Regiments converted to Royal Artillery. In the aftermath of the First World War 25 Yeomanry regiments of the British Army were transferred to the Royal Artillery between 1920 and 1922 with another one – the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) – reduced to a battery in another regiment. A further seven regiments were converted during the Second World War.

Background

Under threat of invasion by the

The experience of the First World War made it clear that cavalry was surfeit. Indeed, by the end of the war, just 17 1st Line regiments remained as mounted cavalry; the rest had been converted to infantry or machine gun battalions.^[9] Almost all 2nd Line regiments were converted to cyclists in 1916 and 1917,^[9] and the 3rd Line regiments were absorbed into reserve cavalry regiments or reserve infantry battalions.^[10]

Post war, a commission was set up to consider the shape of the Territorial Force (

See also

• List of Yeomanry Regiments 1908
• Yeomanry
• Yeomanry order of precedence

Notes