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    The Northamptonshire Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1794 as volunteer cavalry. It served in the Second Boer War, the First...
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    On the right or northeast, British tanks from "A" Squadron 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry and "B" Squadron 144th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps were positioned...
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  • William Compton, 6th Marquess of Northampton (category Northamptonshire Yeomanry officers)
    where he graduated as B.A. in 1906. Initially a Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, he was commissioned into the regular army in the Royal Horse...
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    John Profumo (category Northamptonshire Yeomanry officers)
    Sergeant while at Harrow. He served in North Africa with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry as a Captain (acting major), where he was mentioned in dispatches...
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    Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) 24th (Derbyshire Yeomanry) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps from Derbyshire Yeomanry 25th (Northamptonshire Yeomanry)...
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    Leslie Howard (category Northamptonshire Yeomanry officers)
    February 1915 he received a commission as a subaltern with the 3/1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry, with which he trained in England until 19 May 1916, when he resigned...
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  • a long history as part of the auxiliary forces, but the first Northamptonshire Yeomanry were disbanded as a regiment in 1828, leaving some independent...
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    Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry 1st East Riding Yeomanry 2nd East Riding Yeomanry 1940 Inns of Court Regiment...
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    George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea (category Northamptonshire Yeomanry officers)
    14 December 1819 commenced acting as a lieutenant of the Northamptonshire regiment of yeomanry, and on 7 September 1820 was named a deputy-lieutenant for...
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    4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) (to July 1944) 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry (to August 1944) 15th/19th...
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    Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) 24th (Derbyshire Yeomanry) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps from Derbyshire Yeomanry 25th (Northamptonshire Yeomanry)...
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  • Ashley Bramall (category Northamptonshire Yeomanry officers)
    parent family. On the outbreak of war, Bramall had joined the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, into which he was commissioned in 1941. He transferred to the...
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    (Reconnaissance Regiment, from 10 March 1941, left 25 March 1943) 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry (Reconnaissance Regiment, from 25 March 1943, disbanded 17 August...
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  • to the troop in the event of an evacuation. A troop of the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry based at Windsor Castle commanded by Lieutenant Michael Tomkin...
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    Tout, who served as a tank gunner and tank commander in the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry in Normandy in 1944, described the effect of mounting a 17-pounder...
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  • Joe Ekins (category Northamptonshire Yeomanry soldiers)
    Ekins died on 1 February 2012. During Operation Totalize the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry and elements of the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division reached...
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    the Conservative member for Kettering while serving with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, and combined his political and military duties through the Second...
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    London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. It was raised in 1901 from Second Boer War veterans of the Imperial Yeomanry. During...
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  • County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Bedfordshire Yeomanry Essex Yeomanry Northamptonshire Yeomanry East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Lovat Scouts Scottish...
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    The Hertfordshire Yeomanry was a Yeomanry Cavalry regiment of the British Army that could trace its formation to the late 18th century. First seeing mounted...
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    the Germans. Four cars, two each with the 12th Lancers and 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, had their guns removed and additional seats fitted in 1940 for...
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  • County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Bedfordshire Yeomanry Essex Yeomanry Northamptonshire Yeomanry East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry 1st Lovat's Scouts...
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    Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (category Northamptonshire Yeomanry officers)
    of major in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry and in the West Kent Yeomanry. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire and for Kent, as...
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    parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. It is the county town of Northamptonshire and the administrative...
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    belts: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry, Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry, and Westminster Dragoons...
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  • 135th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, officers and men of the Northamptonshire Battery wore the Hertfordshire Yeomanry cap badge, the officers...
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    from 1867 until his death. He was also the first President of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society. Lilford travelled widely, especially around...
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    1956, the Northamptonshire Yeomanry was reduced to one squadron and amalgamated with the Inns of Court Regiment as "The Northamptonshire Yeomanry "D" Squadron...
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  • Tom Boardman, Baron Boardman (category Northamptonshire Yeomanry soldiers)
    politics, enlisted into the British Army as a trooper in the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry. At the start of the World War II, Boardman was selected for training...
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    The Essex Yeomanry was a Reserve unit of the British Army that originated in 1797 as local Yeomanry Cavalry Troops in Essex. Reformed after the experience...
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