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 cavalry...
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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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Yeomanry) Squadron E (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron The Royal Yeomanry Band (Inns of Court & City Yeomanry) Royal Wessex Yeomanry B...
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being amalgamated with the Leicestershire Yeomanry to form the Leicestershire and Derbyshire (Prince Albert's Own) Yeomanry in 1957. The regiment was first...
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The Leicestershire and Derbyshire (Prince Albert's Own) Yeomanry was formed in 1957 as a regiment of the British Army. It evolved to become part of the...
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Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall (category Leicestershire Yeomanry officers)
the British Army in 1949, but served for several years with the Leicestershire Yeomanry. His elder brother, Arthur, having been killed in 1942 serving...
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yeomanry. Many companies were raised and sponsored by yeomanry regiments—for example, the Leicestershire Yeomanry sponsored the 7th (Leicestershire)...
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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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Anthony Nutting (category Leicestershire Yeomanry officers)
[citation needed] Before the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Leicestershire Yeomanry as a trooper but was invalided out early in 1940 because of asthma...
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replaced by the Welsh Horse Yeomanry in February 1915. 1/1st Welsh Horse Yeomanry replaced 1/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry in North Midland Mounted Brigade...
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Staffordshire Yeomanry 91, Shropshire Yeomanry 43, Ayrshire Yeomanry 43, Cheshire Yeomanry 19, Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry (Queen's Own) 41, Leicestershire Yeomanry...
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1st Battalion, Welsh Guards (Mechanised), 15/9/41–31/5/42 153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 10/10/41–31/5/42 21st Anti-Tank...
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Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer) (category Leicestershire Yeomanry officers)
flight operations. His ambition frustrated, Johnson joined the Leicestershire Yeomanry, where the injury was not a bar to recruitment. He joined the Territorial...
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Hussars). 1/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry left to become a cyclist unit, then to form a machine gun battalion with the 1/1st North Somerset Yeomanry. This plan...
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Old John (category Towers in Leicestershire)
(696 ft) is the Leicestershire Yeomanry War Memorial. This was built around 1920 to commemorate the fallen of the Leicestershire Yeomanry from their 1900-1902...
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Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, North West Europe 1944-45 153rd (Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, North West Europe 1944-45 British...
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the 2nd battalion Royal Leicestershire Regiment voluntary regiment, and voluntary regiment captain for Leicestershire Yeomanry, he gained a Territorial...
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Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe (category Lord-lieutenants of Leicestershire)
He was appointed honorary colonel of the Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry cavalry in 1876, colonel of the 94th and 17th Regiment of Foot...
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Royal Glasgow Yeomanry, was recruited from the city's middle classes. In the 1860s, the Leicestershire Yeomanry and the South Salopian Yeomanry (Shropshire)...
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1813. When the Yeomanry was disbanded in 1828, the Leicestershire Yeomanry began to recruit from Rutland, and no subsequent yeomanry regiment was raised...
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William Farrell-Skeffington (category Leicestershire Yeomanry officers)
later became deputy lieutenant of Leicestershire. In 1794, he was appointed to the colonelcy of the Leicestershire Yeomanry, effective 9 May, and held the...
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Yorkshire Dragoons Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own) North Somerset Yeomanry Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry Lanarkshire Yeomanry Northumberland...
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George Anthony Legh Keck (category Leicestershire Yeomanry officers)
parliament five times as MP for Leicestershire between 1797 and 1831. Commissioned as an officer in the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1803, he later served...
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The Yeomanry Mounted Division was a Territorial Force cavalry division formed at Khan Yunis in Palestine in June 1917 from three yeomanry mounted brigades...
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newly married couple set off for their honeymoon at Donington Hall, Leicestershire while the scandal died down. Florence Paget apologized to Chaplin by...
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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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The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) was a mounted auxiliary unit of the British Army raised in 1794 to defend Great Britain from foreign...
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David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty (category Leicestershire Yeomanry officers)
to the rank of lieutenant in 1928. He would later serve in the Leicestershire Yeomanry, part of the Territorial Army, and gained the rank of lieutenant...
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Brigade with the 1/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry from North Midland Mounted Brigade, and 8th Cavalry Brigade with the 1/1st Essex Yeomanry from Eastern Mounted...
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Robert Tilney (category Leicestershire Yeomanry officers)
Robert Tilney was a Territorial Army officer, formerly of the Leicestershire Yeomanry. He was the son of Colonel William Arthur Tilney and Hylda Sophia...
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