The Bedfordshire Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. Serving intermittently between 1797 and 1827, it was re-raised in 1901 for the Second...
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its lineage was maintained by 201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery, 100th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery until that unit was placed...
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regiment was amalgamated with 305 (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Light Rgt to form 286 (Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Rgt with the following organisation:...
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Stable belt (section Former Yeomanry regiments)
201 (The Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery, Royal Artillery. Now worn by 68th (Inns of Court and City Yeomanry) Signal Squadron and the Band...
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William Peel, 1st Earl Peel (category Bedfordshire Yeomanry officers)
Peel was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Bedfordshire and lieutenant-colonel of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in 1912 and, at the outbreak of the First World...
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Alan Lascelles (category Bedfordshire Yeomanry officers)
by Trinity College, Oxford, Lascelles served in France with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry during the First World War, where he rose to the rank of captain...
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(Sussex Yeomanry) Medium Battery at Brighton, 201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Medium Battery at Luton, 202 (Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry) Medium...
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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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County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Bedfordshire Yeomanry Essex Yeomanry Northamptonshire Yeomanry East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry 1st Lovat's Scouts...
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Sidney Peel (category Bedfordshire Yeomanry officers)
Oxfordshire Imperial Yeomanry, for which bestowed the Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps. He joined in 1902 the Bedfordshire Yeomanry as an officer...
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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...
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Sir John Osborn, 5th Baronet (category Bedfordshire Militia officers)
the Bedfordshire Yeomanry and in 1803–05 in the Bedford Volunteers. On 12 January 1805 the Earl of Upper Ossory as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire appointed...
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division. 1/1st Bedfordshire Yeomanry left to become a cyclist unit, then to form a machine gun battalion with the 1/1st Essex Yeomanry. The German spring...
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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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Serving Yeomanry Regiments & Yeomanry Old Comrades by Her Majesty The Queen on the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the formation of the Yeomanry at Poets...
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Colchester Garrison (section Essex Yeomanry)
1918, Essex Yeomanry left 8th Cavalry Brigade to become a cyclist unit, then to form a machine gun battalion with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry. The German...
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Medium Regiment, RA 121st (West Riding) Medium Regiment, RA 52nd (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery Divisions (for the invasion of...
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E. W. Swanton (category Bedfordshire Yeomanry officers)
further updated editions in 1948 and 1962. Swanton served in the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in the Second World War. He was in the rank of acting major when...
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Veterinary Section (39th, from England on 23 August). On 12 June, 1/1st Bedfordshire Yeomanry joined from the Eastern Mounted Brigade in England to bring the...
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The Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own) was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794 and again in 1803, which provided...
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Regiment 51 (Lowland) Heavy Regiment – North West Europe Campaign 52 (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Regiment – North West Europe Campaign 53 Heavy Regiment 54...
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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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Royal Artillery (TA) 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) – converted to 52nd (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Regiment November...
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Lord Alwyne Compton (politician) (category Bedfordshire Yeomanry officers)
seconded to the Imperial Yeomanry, where he was appointed a captain on 17 February 1900. He was attached to the 28th (Bedfordshire) company of the 4th Battalion...
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Borough of Bedford (category Local government districts of Bedfordshire)
Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment: 1980. 201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery Royal Artillery (Volunteers): 3 May 1986. RAF Henlow: 26...
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Divisional Mounted Troops 2/1st Bedfordshire Yeomanry joined October 1915, left February 1916 2/2nd County of London Yeomanry joined 24 January 1916, left...
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Cecil Polhill (category Bedfordshire Yeomanry officers)
Cambridge, before taking a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Bedfordshire Yeomanry. In 1885 he and his brother, Arthur Twistleton Polhill, became affiliated...
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County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) 62, Bedfordshire Yeomanry 65, Essex Yeomanry 152, Northamptonshire Yeomanry 70, East Riding Yeomanry 67, Lovat Scouts...
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Yeomanry House is a military installation in Hertford. It is a Grade II* listed building. The building, which was originally known as Wisteria House and...
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The Bedfordshire Militia, later the Bedfordshire Light Infantry was an auxiliary military regiment in the English county of Bedfordshire. From their formal...
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