4th Reserve Dragoons

**Dubb_al_Ibn** · 10-02-2010, 12:56

There might have been an enormous number of them in Liverpool but I don't think we would have let them live on the Wirral. :D

We did have standards in those days, doncha know?

**tropper66** · 10-02-2010, 13:03

Originally Posted by Dubb_al_Ibn

There might have been an enormous number of them in Liverpool but I don't think we would have let them live on the Wirral. :D

We did have standards in those days, doncha know?

They all went on holiday to the Isle of Man in 1914

**Cuddles** · 10-02-2010, 13:39

Originally Posted by Dubb_al_Ibn

There might have been an enormous number of them in Liverpool but I don't think we would have let them live on the Wirral. :D

We did have standards in those days, doncha know?

Judging by the number of professional footballers living there now, you have abandoned them wholesale?

**ticklishrodent** · 10-02-2010, 13:44

Cuddles the footballers live in Cheshire Wilmslow etc

**Cuddles** · 10-02-2010, 14:50

Originally Posted by tropper66

Originally Posted by Dubb_al_Ibn

There might have been an enormous number of them in Liverpool but I don't think we would have let them live on the Wirral. :D

We did have standards in those days, doncha know?

They all went on holiday to the Isle of Man in 1914

No, joking aside, a lot of them went home in a headlong rush to get mobilised. There are a few, apocryphal and authenticated alike, tales of familiars meeting up in the 1914 Christmas Truce for example.

Ally Pally was an internment camp early in WW1 before becoming an MT depot and a SMB. Knockaloo and Douglas on the IOM were the main venues and 23000 or so German civilians were detained there for the duration in most cases. Seen as unjust with the benefit of hindsight, the reactions to Germans and German businesses in 1914 and 1915 (after the RMS Lusitania was sunk) indicate that it was definitely for their own good!

Never one to let a WW1 reference go idly by!!

Cast a look at http://gov.im/mnh/heritage/library/b...internment.xml

**Sapukay** · 12-02-2010, 21:52

The Reserve Cavalry Regiments were the amalgamated depot squadrons of cavalry (inc. yeomanry) Regiments overseas. There were two units entitled "4th Reserve Cavalry Regiment", the original was based at Tidworth and consisted of:

Depot Sqn, 4th Dragoon Guards
Depot Sqn, 7th Dragoon Guards
2nd Warwickshire Yeomanry
2nd Royal Gloucester Hussars Yeomanry
2nd Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Yeomanry
(all at squadron strength)

In 1917 the three yeomanry regiments had finished training and were mobilised as 2/1st South Midlands Mounted Bridage. The existing 1st and 2nd Reserve Cavalry and some rather small 3rd Regiments of some Yeomanry were amalganated to create a new 4th Reserve Cavalry Regiment, which consisted of:

Depot Sqn, 1st Dragoon Guards
Depot Sqn, 2nd Dragoon Guards
Depot Sqn, 5th Dragoon Guards
Depot Sqn, 6th Dragoons
3rd Derbyshire Yeomanry
3rd Essex Yeomanry
3rd Lanarkshire Yeomanry
3rd/ 1st County of London Yeomanry
3rd Lothians and Border Horse