The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (RWY) was a Yeomanry regiment of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom established in 1794. It was disbanded...
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from the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and the Royal Devon Yeomanry to form four squadrons. The Wessex Yeomanry was granted...
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(Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron A (Dorset Yeomanry) Squadron C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron Y (Royal...
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The Royal Yeomanry (RY) is the senior reserve cavalry regiment of the British Army. Equipped with Supacat Jackal variants, their role is to conduct mounted...
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independent troops of Yeomanry for the county of Wiltshire, which formed the basis for what would become the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, who served with distinction...
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James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
be appointed as Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry in 1982 and then of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry from 1984 until 1989. The family seat is...
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Aid Nursing Yeomanry do not appear as they are not part of the British Army or its reserve. Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Warwickshire Yeomanry Yorkshire Hussars...
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one squadron: B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) [RWY] Squadron C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) [RGH] Squadron D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) [RDY] Squadron The...
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continued by 295 (Hampshire Yeomanry) Battery and 457 (Hampshire Carabiniers Yeomanry) Battery, batteries of 106 (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery, part of the...
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
Somersetshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, on 26 June 1925. On 1 May 1926, he transferred to the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry with the same rank...
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Stable belt (section Former Yeomanry regiments)
stable belts: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry, Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry, and Westminster...
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The Royal Devon Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1920. It participated in the Second World War and now forms a squadron...
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Horse. The senior yeomanry regiments could trace their origins back over 100 years; the oldest regiment, the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, had been formed...
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Aly Khan (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
division in Egypt and the Middle East. In 1940, he joined the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, becoming a lieutenant colonel in 1944. That same year, he participated...
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Car Regiment Royal Navy - HMS Dauntless Royal Air Force - IX(B) Squadron France – 5e Régiment de Dragons The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's...
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A Royal Review of Serving Yeomanry Regiments & Yeomanry Old Comrades by Her Majesty The Queen on the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the formation...
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Devizes (redirect from Devizes, Wiltshire)
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, the senior yeomanry regiment. In 1810 the county militia, quartered at Devizes, mutinied and the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry were...
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The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars was a volunteer yeomanry regiment which, in the 20th century, became part of the British Army Reserve. It traced its...
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George Brudenell-Bruce, 6th Marquess of Ailesbury (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
and Sutherland Highlanders; the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry; the Middlesex Yeomanry; the Wiltshire Regiment; and the Royal Field Artillery Lord Cardigan was...
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Household Cavalry Regiment. North Somerset Yeomanry transferred from 4th to 5th Cavalry Brigade. Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry transferred from 4th to 6th Cavalry...
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John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
commissioned into the volunteer battalion of the Royal Scots, but transferred to the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry where he was promoted to captain on 7 December...
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Fovant Badges (category Military history of Wiltshire)
to right (north-east to south-west), the badges at Fovant are: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (only central part remaining) YMCA, restored in 2018. 6th (City...
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Lord Alexander Thynne (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
commission with the Imperial Yeomanry on 28 July 1902. During the war, he had been promoted a lieutenant in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry on 13 June 1900, while...
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British Army order of precedence (section Household Cavalry, Royal Armoured Corps and Infantry orders of precedence)
precedence of the Volunteer Infantry. The senior Yeomanry unit, numbering 1st, was the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. None of these were to be confused with, by...
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forces to serve in the field, and a Royal Warrant was issued on 24 December that officially created the Imperial Yeomanry (IY). This was organised as service...
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drafts for the active regiments. In 1915, the 3rd Line regiments of the Yeomanry were also affiliated with the Cavalry Reserve and, in September 1916, the...
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Salisbury (redirect from Salisbury, Wiltshire)
Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson: 1800. The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry: 1944. Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment: October 2004. The Rifles:...
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Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 7th Marquess of Lansdowne (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
Captain Charles Hope Fitzmaurice Lansdowne served with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps and died on 20 August 1944. Lord Lansdowne was...
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Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
complained he would have to sell. Long served as an officer in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, and was promoted Major in 1890, becoming Lieutenant-Colonel in...
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Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne (category Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry officers)
Lieutenant in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and in 1971 transferred with the rank of Lieutenant to the Royal Yeomanry, attached to the Royal Armoured Corps...
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