One forum member started discussion regarding the 157th Company 35th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry and specifically Thomas Clare who served with them. In later military life Thomas was to join Cheshire Yeomanry during the First World War.
My grandfather, Thomas Minshall, also served with Cheshire Yeomanry during the First World War. He enlisted on 27 August 1914. From September 1914 until February 1916 Cheshire Yeomanry with the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade served on Coastal Defence duties in Norfolk. March 1916 they sailed for Egypt, seeing active service there and Palestine. At the end of 1916 the Shropshire and Cheshire Yeomanry amalgamated to form the 10th (Shropshire & Cheshire Yeomanry) Batt. King's Shropshire Light Infantry. In May 1918 the 10th Bn. KSLI sailed for Europe.
Thomas Minshall remained with the 10th Bn. KSLI until December 1917 when he was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant with the 15th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion Suffolk Regiment, also sailing in May 1918 bound for France and Belgium. He survived the war.
I have been researching Thomas' service with the Cheshire Yeomanry and posting information on my blog. The contents page there lists all the articles about the Cheshire Yeomanry.
The latest short piece, Doubt and Despondency, covers the period of uncertainty and raised expectations in the run up to the Cheshire Yeomanry finally getting their orders (100 years ago this month) that they were to be posted overseas.
Hopefully this will be of interest and also enable discussion of both the Imperial Yeomanry and Cheshire Yeomanry.
David