The Scottish Cyclist Company was raised in Scotland.
The roll contains some 141 names. The unit suffered one fatality during the War.
On January 25, 1901, before the year's service of the first companies had expired, a call for companies to replace those was made and responded to, and on March 3, 1901, the formation of 8 volunteer cyclist companies was called for, one of them to be furnished by the Scottish volunteers, of a strength of 1 captain, 4 subalterns, 1 serjeant - instructor as pay serjeant, 4 Serjeants, 2 buglers, 5 corporals, 101 privates, and 2 stretcher-bearers, or 120 of all ranks. The conditions of enlistment were much the same as for the infantry companies, and cycles were to be supplied to the men on arrival in South Africa. Enlistment for this company was begun on March 21, and was conducted all over Scotland; on May 2 the company was concentrated at Berwick-on-Tweed, and in the middle of that month it embarked for South Africa. Source: Records of the Scottish volunteer force, 1859-1908 by Grierson, James Moncrieff, Sir, 1859-1914.
