The Lothians and Berwickshire Yeomanry

 

 

Other Ranks, The Lothians and Berwickshire Yeomanry

Walking Out Dress, c. 1890

In 1798 The East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry, The Berwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry, The Midlothian Yeomanry and The Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Light Dragoons (the Princess Street Lancers) were raised to provide a defense against the armies of Napoleon. In 1800 the last two of these amalgamated to form The Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry. A reduction in strength of all three at the end of the Napoleonic Wars was followed by an increase in recruitment during the unemployment and social unrest of the early nineteenth century.

All had been disbanded by 1838, only for the Midlothians to be formed again in 1843, followed by the East Lothians in 1846. In 1888 they became The Lothians and Berwickshire Yeomanry, consisting of two troops from East Lothian, one from Berwickshire and one from Midlothian, and, in 1892, a West Lothian Troop was added.

In the Second Boer War, the regiment sponsored the 19th (Lothians and Berwickshire) Company, which served in the 6th (Scottish) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, in South Africa from 1900 until 1902.

 

The Lothians and Berwickshire Yeomanry Resting on Belhaven Sands by R. Payton Reid, 1891.

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Departed the collection in 2022.

Brigadier Herle Maudslay Hordern, OBE

 

 

Brigadier Herle Maudslay Hordern, OBE

 1892-1981

 Full Dress Tunic, c. 1914

 

 Hordern attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1913. As a Captain, he received the Military Cross for service in The Great War in 1918. Beginning in 1922, Hordern served with the Mechanical Warfare Experimental Establishment, which was responsible for the development of tanks and armoured vehicles. For this, he was appointed an Officer, Order of the British Empire in 1927. Hordern became Deputy Assistant Director of Mechanization in 1932. He was made Commandant of the Military College of Science in 1941 and made a Temporary Brigadier in 1942. Hordern retired in 1946 and was granted the honorary rank of Brigadier

9th (The Dumbartonshire) Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

 

 

Captain, 9th (The Dumbartonshire) Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

 Full Dress, c. 1909

 

The 1st Administrative Battalion, Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers, with headquarters at Balloch, Scotland, was formed in May of 1860. The Volunteer Rifle Corps included in it were the 1st through the 14th.

In April of 1880, the battalion was consolidated and retitled as the 1st Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, with twelve companies and headquartered at Helensburgh, Scotland.

The battalion adopted the scarlet doublet with yellow facings, trews, and glengarry of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in March of 1887. Following the Haldane Reforms of 1907, the battalion was reconstituted as the 9th (The Dumbartonshire) Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, and consisted of eight companies. It was then that the battalion adopted the kilt, hose, and sporran.

 

From Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force: 1859-1908, first published in 1909.