Mobilisation of 1/1st Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars), August 1914

Photograph, World War One (1914-1918), 1914.

The Royal Bucks Hussars were mobilised at Buckingham on 4 August 1914. After a spell of coastal defence duties, they sailed for Egypt with 2nd Mounted Division in April 1915. The Yeomanry were the mounted arm of the Territorial Force.

One of 47 photographs taken by W B Bowyer, Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, Egypt and Palestine, 1915-1918.