Old Photograph Barracks Cupar Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Barracks in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. This building housed the former jail built in 1842. Converted to barracks and drill around 1890 for Scottish Yeomanry. In 1914 the building was the base for "A" Squadron Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and base for " E " Company, the battalion Black Watch. In the later 20th century the building and site is the Territorial Army base in Fife. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry was an Armoured Yeomanry Regiment of the British Territorial Army from 1793 to 1956 when it was amalgamated with the Scottish Horse. It was raised to counter the threat of invasion by France in the late 18th Century but first saw service in the Boer War. The Regiment saw heavy fighting in both the Great War and World War II.



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