Yeomanry

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The Yeomanry were units of mounted volunteers, first raised in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, to defend against invasion from abroad or revolution at home.

In the 1790s, the threat of invasion of the Kingdom of Great Britain was high, after the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to improve the country's defences, volunteer regiments were raised in many counties from yeomen. The word "yeoman" refers to small farmers who owned the land they cultivated, but the officers were drawn from the nobility and many of the men were their tenants. These regiments became known collectively as the Yeomanry. Members of the yeomanry were not obliged to serve overseas without their individual consent.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, Yeomanry Regiments were used extensively in support of the civil authority to quell riots and civil disturbances (including the Peterloo Massacre), but as police forces took over this role, the Yeomanry concentrated on local defence.

During the Boer War, companies of The Imperial Yeomanry were formed to serve overseas from volunteers from the Yeomanry.

In 1908, the Yeomanry became part of the Territorial Army.

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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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