[1][2] On 13 December 1899, the decision to allow volunteer forces serve in the Second Boer War was made.

The Royal Warrant asked standing Yeomanry regiments to provide service companies of approximately 115 men each.

In addition to this, many British citizens (usually mid-upper class) volunteered to join the new regiment.

The regiment was based at Prince Albert Road in Liverpool at this time (since demolished).

Therefore, TF units were split in August and September 1914 into 1st Line (liable for overseas service) and 2nd Line (home service for those unable or unwilling to serve overseas) units.

[6] The 1/1st was formed in Liverpool in August 1914 and attached to the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade.

[10] About May 1918 the Brigade moved to Ireland[12] and the regiment was stationed at Bandon and Buttevant, County Cork.

[13] In 1920, in common with many other Yeomanry regiments, the Lancashire Hussars were converted to a Royal Field Artillery (RFA) role and was redesignated as the 2nd (Lancashire) Army Brigade, RFA, at Manchester.

In 1921, it was redesignated as the 106th (Lancashire Yeomanry) Brigade, RFA, and then when the RFA was subsumed into the Royal Artillery (RA) in 1924, as the 106th (Lancashire Yeomanry) Field Brigade, RA, with HQ returning to Liverpool.

[1][2][14][15] At the start of the Second World War, the hussars comprised 423rd and 424th Batteries, based in Liverpool.

[2][14] In March 1941, the regiment deployed to Greece via Operation Lustre as part of W Force.

[19] The German advance forced the British to retreat to the town of Nauplion, where the 106th were the only AA defence.

[20] After destroying their Breda guns, the regiment was evacuated to Crete on board HMS Calcutta.

[21] Most of the regiment ended the campaign in the defence of Suda Bay in the Battle of Crete, becoming prisoners of war in the process.

It was placed in suspended animation in July the same year, with many of its men going to reinforce the 102nd (Northumberland Hussars) Regiment RA, which were being strengthened and re-equipped after being evacuated from Greece and Crete.

It entered Tobruk in November 1941 and fought at El Duda during the breakout through 9 December.

The regiment served under command of 4th Indian Infantry Division from 9 September 1942 until 31 August 1945.