The Yeomanry Mounted Division was a Territorial Force cavalry division formed at Khan Yunis in Palestine in June 1917 from three yeomanry mounted brigades. In April 1918 it was renamed 1st Mounted Division, the third such division to bear that title. In April 1918 six of the regiments were withdrawn from the division and sent to France, being converted from Yeomanry to battalions of the Machine Gun Corps. In July the division was dissolved and some regiments together with others from the British Indian Army were combined as the 4th Cavalry Division.
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