The Shropshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1795, which served as a cavalry and dismounted infantry regiment in...
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(Croydon) D (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron E (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron The Royal Yeomanry Band (Inns of Court & City Yeomanry) Royal...
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three new RAC Yeomanry regiments (the Queen's Own Yeomanry, the Mercian Yeomanry and the Wessex Yeomanry) were raised and the Royal Yeomanry's name was shortened...
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Cinderloo Uprising (category Shropshire Yeomanry)
Coalfield (present day Telford) on 2 February 1821, when the South Shropshire Yeomanry confronted a crowd of 3,000 mostly striking workers who had gathered...
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Cheshire Yeomanry was amalgamated with the 1/1st Shropshire Yeomanry at Cairo on 2 March 1917 to form the 10th (Shropshire and Cheshire Yeomanry) Battalion...
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Yeomanry regiment, which is reflected in their subtitles: A (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron B (Shropshire Yeomanry)...
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Harold Whitfield (category Shropshire Yeomanry soldiers)
and Commonwealth forces. Born in Oswestry, Shropshire, in June 1886, Whitfield joined the Shropshire Yeomanry in 1908. When World War I broke out in 1914...
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John Mytton (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
commissioned as captain in a local yeomanry regiment, the Oswestry Rangers. In 1814 it was merged into the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, into which Mytton...
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Halesowen (redirect from Halesowen, Shropshire)
volunteer cavalry by 1798, which in 1814 became part of the South Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Halesowen became the centre of a poor law union in the 19th...
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Staffordshire Yeomanry Shropshire Yeomanry Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry Cheshire Yeomanry Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Leicestershire Yeomanry North...
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Shrewsbury (redirect from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England)
1832. The Duke of Cambridge visited in 1886 when he inspected the Shropshire Yeomanry on the racecourse. Princess Louise, visited in 1898. The Duke of...
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tenth Baronet was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Shropshire Yeomanry and served as High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1956. The Wattlesborough and Loton Park estates...
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Worcestershire Yeomanry, the Staffordshire Yeomanry and the Shropshire Yeomanry. It amalgamated into the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry in 1992. The...
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Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
Militia, which existed until 1816. Powis also had long service in the Shropshire Yeomanry. In 1807 he was appointed major in command of a troop raised from...
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George Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
years, he served with the Territorial Army as a lieutenant in the Shropshire Yeomanry from 1921, then as captain in the 16th Battalion, London Regiment...
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Carrick's Own) Yeomanry was a Regiment of the British Yeomanry and is now an armoured Squadron of the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry (SNIY), part of...
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Michael Lambart, 12th Earl of Cavan (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
school for boys in Oxfordshire. He was commanding officer of the Shropshire Yeomanry between 1955 and 1958. He married Essex Lucy Cholmondeley, daughter...
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Guerre. The 10th (Shropshire & Cheshire Yeomanry) Battalion landed at Marseille as part of the 231st Brigade in the 74th (Yeomanry) Division in May 1918...
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Thomas Campbell Eyton (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. The Whitethorn Press. p. 38,42. Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers...
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David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
6 km2) of the Woodhill Estate, Oswestry, Shropshire. In 1948, he was commissioned a Major in the Shropshire Yeomanry, but left in 1950. At the 1950 general...
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Rangers) 79, Staffordshire Yeomanry 91, Shropshire Yeomanry 43, Ayrshire Yeomanry 43, Cheshire Yeomanry 19, Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry (Queen's Own) 41, Leicestershire...
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Richard Jones (cricketer, born 1871) (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
Ludlow. After graduating from Oxford, Jones was commissioned into the Shropshire Yeomanry as a second lieutenant in May 1896, with promotion to the rank of...
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Coalbrookdale Coalfield of east Shropshire. The uprising saw 3,000 protesting workers confronted by the South Shropshire Yeomanry, leading to the deaths of...
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Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795–1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. The Whitethorn Press. p. 86. Gladstone, E.W. The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795–1945...
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second Earl. As Viscount Tarbat he had been sub-lieutenant in the Shropshire Yeomanry in 1876 and was later a Major in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the...
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Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
Staffordshire and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire between 1875 and 1896. He served in the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, beginning as cornet in 1839...
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Philip Tindal-Carill-Worsley (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
(1910–2012)) and a daughter. During World War I he served with the Shropshire Yeomanry and the Royal Engineers Signals, serving as a staff officer and reaching...
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Rangers) Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) Shropshire Yeomanry Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)...
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Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
E.W. The Shropshire Yeomanry. p. 116. "No. 27387". The London Gazette. 13 December 1901. p. 8842. Gladstone, E.W. The Shropshire Yeomanry. p. 449. "Lord...
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Charles Cecil Cotes (category Shropshire Yeomanry officers)
South Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry as lieutenant before being promoted captain in 1869. This regiment amalgamated to form the unified Shropshire Yeomanry in...
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