The West Somerset Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. First raised in 1794, it participated in the Second Boer War and World War I before...
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Somerset Yeomanry may refer to: North Somerset Yeomanry West Somerset Yeomanry This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Somerset...
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The North Somerset Yeomanry was a part-time cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1798 to 1967. It maintained order in Somerset in the days before...
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Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army founded in 1794 as the Dorsetshire Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry in response...
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Coltishall and was part of 5th (Hampshire and West Somerset) Yeomanry Cyclist Regiment (with 2/1st West Somerset Yeomanry) in 2nd Cyclist Brigade. In March 1917...
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Wessex (redirect from West Saxon kingdom)
disbanded West Somerset Yeomanry adopted a Wessex Wyvern rampant as the centre piece for its cap badge, and the current Royal Wessex Yeomanry adopted a...
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Stable belt (section Former Yeomanry regiments)
belts: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry, Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry, and Westminster Dragoons...
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Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry, West Somerset Yeomanry, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, Norfolk Yeomanry, Sussex Yeomanry, 1st City of London Yeomanry, 2nd County...
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Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (category West Somerset Yeomanry officers)
joined the Royal Wiltshire Militia as captain in 1790 and when the West Somerset Yeomanry was raised in 1794 became its major. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel...
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One of the new battalions was formed by the conversion of the West Somerset Yeomanry, a Territorial Force Cavalry Regiment; the rest were formed by the...
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John Winter (cricketer) (category West Somerset Yeomanry officers)
officer in the West Somerset Yeomanry, from which he retired in 1892 with the honorary rank of major; the father of another Somerset cricketer, Walter...
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include ones on the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, West Somerset Yeomanry, North Somerset Yeomanry, and the Somerset Rifles. "Somerset Military Museum"...
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Hussars) Royal North Devon Yeomanry Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry West Somerset Yeomanry Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars...
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The 74th (Yeomanry) Division was a Territorial Force infantry division formed in Palestine in early 1917 from three dismounted yeomanry brigades. It served...
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55th (Wessex) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (redirect from 373rd (West Somerset Yeomanry) Field Battery, Royal Artillery)
(TA). Its origin was a brigade organised in 1927 from the former West Somerset Yeomanry and field batteries from Wiltshire. Just before the outbreak of...
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Hussars) Royal North Devon Yeomanry Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry West Somerset Yeomanry Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars...
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Brigade – attached 1/1st Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry 1/1st Royal North Devon Yeomanry 1/1st West Somerset Yeomanry 1/2nd South-Western Signal Troop, RE 1/2nd...
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George Elers (cricketer) (category West Somerset Yeomanry officers)
for Somerset, Dorset and the Channel Islands. Active in the British Army during his life, Elers military service began in 1886 with the West Somerset Yeomanry...
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Brinsley FitzGerald (category West Somerset Yeomanry officers)
FitzGerald and Co. He was appointed a second-lieutenant in the West Somerset Yeomanry on 18 January 1900. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War...
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15 November 1915 1/1st Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry 1/1st Royal North Devon Yeomanry 1/1st West Somerset Yeomanry 1/2nd South-Western Signal Troop, Royal...
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Alexander Barrett (category West Somerset Yeomanry officers)
gentry. He served in the West Somerset Yeomanry, and was a keen amateur cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Somerset in 1896, and was president...
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created the Imperial Yeomanry (IY). This was organised as service companies of 121 officers and men enlisted for one year. Existing Yeomanry and fresh volunteers...
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The 2nd Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the county of Somerset in South West England. First organised during the Seven Years' War...
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Chris. "Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 12 October 2012. Baker, Chris. "West Somerset Yeomanry". The Long Long Trail...
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and Somerset Yeomanry) Field Bde. On 23 August 1927, 217 Bty was reformed at Swindon as a howitzer battery: Brigade HQ & 373 (West Somerset Yeomanry) Field...
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The 1st Mounted Division was a Yeomanry Division of the British Army active during World War I. It was formed in August 1914 for the home defence of the...
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officer training at Alton Towers and was posted to the 55th West Somerset Yeomanry at West Lavington, Wiltshire. Through the influence of his father, in...
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Honourable Artillery Company and the Yeomanry. On formation, the TF contained 14 infantry divisions and 14 mounted yeomanry brigades. One of the divisions was...
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Sir Lewis Molesworth, 11th Baronet (category West Somerset Yeomanry officers)
probably in the 1880s, Molesworth served as an officer in the West Somerset Yeomanry cavalry. In 1898 he was appointed to serve as a Sheriff for the...
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regiment was merged with the 2/1st West Somerset Yeomanry to form 5th (West Somerset and City of London) Yeomanry Cyclist Regiment in 2nd Cyclist Brigade...
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