The Sharpshooters
The Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry

Sharpshooters Imperial Yeomanry – 2

• —18th (Sharpshooters) Battalion (67th, 70th, 71st and 75th Coys)
• —21st (Sharpshooters) Battalion (80th, 81st, 82nd and 83rd Coys)
• —23rd (Sharpshooters) Battalion (90th, 91st, 92nd and 93rd (Coys)

In January 1901, the Government made a further call for Yeomanry and between February and March, another 1,200 men were recruited by the Sharpshooters Committee and formed into two battalions, the 21st and 23rd.  The 21st were sent to the Johannesburg area and the 23rd to Bloemfontein.  Their usual role was protecting the lines of communication which stretched from Capetown  some 800 miles to Pretoria

The 21st Battalion was commanded by Lt-Col Alexander Weston Jarvis who later commanded the Sharpshooters from 1909 to 1916.