The British 74th (Yeomanry) Division was a First World War Infantry Division formed in Egypt from brigades of Dismounted Yeomanry (Territorial Army Cavalry).

On 14 January 1917, the GOC Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Sir Edmund Allenby, gave orders for the re-organisation of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Dismounted brigades of Yeomanry - at the time all were serving on Suez Canal defences - and for their re-designation as the 229th, 230th and 231st Infantry brigades. 

The brigades were organised as a Division, which began to assemble on 4 Mar 1917 near El Arish. 

The divisional Artillery did not join until July, by which time the Division had already taken part in its first action, the second Battle of Gaza.

The Division's insignia was a broken spur to signify that it was once a mounted division and now served as Infantry.

During the Battle of Beersheba on 31 October 1917, the Division, as part of Chetwodes XX Corps, captured the Turkish fortifications west of Beersheba.

After further service in Palestine, the Division was ordered to the Western Front, landing in Marseilles in May 1918.  It then concentrated near Abbeville by 18 May 1918.

The Division was in Ath (Belgium) at the armistice.  Demobilisation happened steadily throughout early 1919.  The final departure of Divisional Headquarters was on 19 July 1919, when this unusual Division finally ended service.

Whereas the broken spur and shape of the TRF are taken from the 74th (Yeomanry) Division the colours on the left and right are not.  The two colours used scarlet and buff are in fact the facing colours (ie the colours of the collars and cuffs on full dress uniform. 

Scarlet for the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Royal Devon Yeomanry and Queens Own Dorset Yeomanry and Buff for the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.