Yeomanry

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In the 1790s, the threat of invasion of the Kingdom of Great Britain was high, with the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to maximise the country's defences, a number of volunteer regiments were raised in many counties by yeomen. These regiments became known as the Yeomanry.

While this was certainly true in most cases it was also the fact that the new regiments were sometimes used in support of the civil authority to fight rebellion as in the Irish rebellion or suppress civil unrest — as in the Peterloo Massacre; so their equipping and maintenance by local landowners was by no means entirely altruistic in post-revolutionary, but pre-police, England and Ireland.

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[edit] Current Yeomanry Regiments

Today, in the modern Territorial Army, there are many former Yeomanry regiments serving in one form or another, usually as a squadron/battery that is part of a larger unit:

[edit] Royal Armoured Corps

[edit] Royal Yeomanry

[edit] Royal Wessex Yeomanry

[edit] Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

  • Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry
  • Shropshire Yeomanry
  • Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)
  • Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

[edit] Queen's Own Yeomanry

  • Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry
  • Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse
  • North Irish Horse
  • Northumberland Hussars
  • East Riding (of Yorkshire) Yeomanry

[edit] Infantry

[edit] Royal Regiment of Scotland

[edit] Royal Signals

[edit] Independent Squadrons

  • Berkshire Yeomanry
  • Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars)

[edit] 32 (Scottish) Signal Regiment

  • Lanarkshire and Glasgow Yeomanry

[edit] 33 (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment

  • Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)

[edit] 35 (South Midlands) Signal Regiment

  • Shropshire Yeomanry

[edit] 36 (Eastern) Signal Regiment

  • Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

[edit] 37 (Wessex and Welsh) Signal Regiment

  • Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry

[edit] 39 (Skinners) Signal Regiment

  • Middlesex Yeomanry (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars)
  • North Somerset Yeomanry
  • Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

[edit] 40 (Ulster) Signal Regiment

  • North Irish Horse

[edit] 71 (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment

[edit] Royal Artillery

[edit] 100 Regiment

  • Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry
  • South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry

[edit] 104 Regiment

  • Glamorgan Yeomanry

[edit] 106 (Yeomanry) Regiment

  • Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers)
  • Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry

[edit] Royal Engineers

[edit] 101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment

  • Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)

[edit] 71 Engineer Regiment

[edit] Royal Logistic Corps

[edit] 157 Transport Regiment

  • Pembroke Yeomanry

[edit] Army Medical Services

[edit] Yeomanry Regiments with more than one unit

Most of the old yeomanry regiments are perpetuated through a single unit, be it an armoured, engineers or signal squadron, or an artillery battery. However, there are six yeomanry regiments that maintain more than one unit:

  • Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)
    • Armoured Replacement Squadron
    • Signals Squadron
  • Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
    • Signals Squadron
    • Regimental Band
  • Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
    • NBC Squadron
    • Signals Squadron
  • North Irish Horse
    • Armoured Reconnaissance Squadron
    • Signals Squadron
  • Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
    • NBC Squadron
    • Armoured Replacement Squadron
  • Shropshire Yeomanry
    • Armoured Replacement Squadron
    • Signals Squadron

[edit] See also

Imperial Yeomanry
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