WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 277175 | Sgt. Thomas Walton | N.S.R.Y. Cycle Regt. Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry |
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| No medal card or service records available on Ancestry. The panel below implies he would not have served overseas and therefore not entitled to medals. |
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| Sherwood Rangers | 2/1st Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry The 2nd Line regiment was formed at Retford in 1915 and in March joined the 2/1st Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade. By June the brigade was in the 2/2nd Mounted Division in the King's Lynn area. On 31 March 1916, the remaining Mounted Brigades were ordered to be numbered in a single sequence and the brigade became the 9th Mounted Brigade (and the division 3rd Mounted Division) In July 1916 there was a major reorganization of 2nd Line yeomanry units in the United Kingdom. All but 12 regiments were converted to cyclists; the 2/1st Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry remained mounted and transferred to the 1st Mounted Brigade in the new 1st Mounted Division (3rd Mounted Division re-designated) at Thorndon Park, Brentwood. The regiment was converted to cyclists in August 1917 and joined 11th Cyclist Brigade in The Cyclist Division where it remained until the end of the war, in the Canterbury area |
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| Long Long Trail | Role The primary roles of the cyclists were reconnaissance and communications (message taking). They were armed as infantry and could provide mobile firepower if required. Those units that went overseas continued in these roles but also (one the mobile phase of war had settled down into entrenched warfare) spent much time in trench-holding duties and on manual work. Development In May and June 1916 the divisional cyclist companies were withdrawn to form a cyclist battalion for each Corps Headquarters (so for example, the IX Corps Divisional Cyclist Battalion came into existence and was a unit of the Army Cyclist Corps). Records War diaries exist for most of the cyclist units and are held at the National Archives. There is no published regimental history and no regimental museum. |
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| Roll of Honour AVL |
RoH: not listed AVL address: Grantham Road |
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Family history etc
| Thomas Walton | |||
| We have been unable to establish any connection for Thomas with Bingham. | |||