WWI Cap Badge -Edinburgh or Glasgow unit?

[egmsam]

Can anyone help identify the attached cap badge or uniform? This picture was taken about 1917. My grandfather is in uniform (interesting lapels) sitting on a horse. Born in Edinburgh but moved at some point in early adulthood to Glasgow so it this may belong to a unit in either place.

My mother said he was in the calvary (or yeomanry?) then absorbed into army? I've looked at many sites etc and the closest shape of the badge I can find is the Machine Gun Corp. Does that make any sense? Horses and machine guns?
Any help would be appreciated.

[mgc]

The badge is that of the MGC-Machine Gun Corps. What you have been told may be true, he may have been transferred to MGC later in the war as they did not exist when the war began.
The standing collar and mounted style bandolier are a bit peculiar for MGC however.

[Alan O]

Many yeomanry regts were re-roled in WW1 as MGC. This may explain his attire but with the MGC cap badge.

My Scottish knowledge is not hot but does anyone know who the local yeo were for that area of Scotland?

Alan

[Unknownsoldier]

What is his name???? I'll try and dig out his MIC and that will tell you his unit's, I may even have his service records somewhere.

Tom

[Staffsyeoman]

MGC personnel wearing a bandolier is not a mystery. MGC units had transport sections - horse drawn - so their staff would wear the bandolier. MGC (Cavalry) also wore bandoliers, but in the absence of an MGC/C shoulder title, first recourse is the transport section of an MGC Infantry unit.