The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (FFY) was an Armoured Yeomanry Regiment of the British Army formed in 1793. It saw action in the Second Boer War, the First...
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of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry) Squadron, in Ayr B (North Irish Horse) Squadron, in Belfast and Coleraine C (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse) Squadron...
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The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse is adopted as the C squadron of the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry as a Light Cavalry Squadron. It is a...
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Squadron in Beflast and Coleraine C (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse) Squadron in Cupar E (Lothians and Border Yeomanry) Squadron in Edinburgh...
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and in the Second World War, as part of the Royal Artillery. It amalgamated with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry to form the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish...
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Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers)
the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. On 8 May 1931 he was made the Honorary Colonel of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. He unsuccessfully contested East Fife in...
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Comet (tank) (section Design and development)
Tank 1942-1950 Note: units converting were: 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, and the 23rd Hussars. The 15th/19th The King's Royal...
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Squadron in Belfast and Coleraine C (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse) Squadron in Cupar E (Lothians and Border Yeomanry) Squadron in Edinburgh The following...
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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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11th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (category Military units and formations established in 1941)
Armoured Brigade 24th Lancers (left 6 February 1944) 23rd Hussars 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (from 7 June 1941) 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (from 6 February 1944)...
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David Lindesay-Bethune, 15th Earl of Lindsay (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse officers)
1951. He was appointed Honorary Colonel on 29 May 1957 of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse. He held this post until 1962, when his tenure expired...
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Light Horse to become the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in 1901 with 'A Squadron', the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry based at Yeomanry House in Cupar. 'A Squadron'...
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Hans von Luck (section Early life and interwar period)
self-propelled guns of the 200th Assault Gun Battalion, the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry advanced past Cagny. As the regiment did, they came under heavy...
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Kingdom on 20 January 1933 for Robert Spencer-Nairn, a Major in the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. Born Robert Nairn, he was the second son of the first Baronet...
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79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (category Military units and formations established in 1942)
141st Regiment Royal Armoured Corps - Churchill Crocodile 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry - Churchill Crocodile 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment -...
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Own West Kent Yeomanry, West Somerset Yeomanry, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, Norfolk Yeomanry, Sussex Yeomanry, 1st City of London Yeomanry, 2nd County of...
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Hussars Surrey Yeomanry Fife and Forfar Yeomanry Norfolk Yeomanry Sussex Yeomanry Glamorgan Yeomanry Welsh Horse[2] Lincolnshire Yeomanry City of London...
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Sir John Gilmour, 4th Baronet (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse officers)
who served in the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse. He was the son of Sir John Edward Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave, 3rd Bt. and Ursula Mabyn Wills...
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David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers)
representative peer to the House of Lords in 1850 and served as captain of the Forfarshire Yeomanry Cavalry and the 12th Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers from 1856...
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George Kyle (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers)
in 1939, Kyle was called into the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. He went to France as part of the BEF in January 1940 and was later evacuated from Dunkirk....
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31st Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Military units and formations established in 1941)
Regiment RAC rejoined and was brought back up to strength with the addition of 11th Royal Tank Regiment and 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry on 2 November. The...
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John Murray Prain (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers)
Commissioned into the Cupar Section of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry which was part of the Territorial Army and by 1935 he was a Captain. Mobilized to serve...
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Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers, the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, the Panmure Battery of the Forfarshire Artillery Brigade, and a Royal Naval Reserve Battery....
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List of Royal Armoured Corps Regiments in World War II (category Lists of British Army units and formations)
Yeomanry 2nd Lothians and Border Horse 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) 4th County...
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Lothians and Border Horse 20th (Fife and Forfar) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps from Fife and Forfar Yeomanry 21st (Gloucestershire Yeomanry) Armoured...
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and 182 enlisted (68 killed in action). The 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks, lost one officer and 20 enlisted (seven KIA). The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and...
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Harold Temperley (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers)
wrote on George Canning and Eastern European history. During World War I, Temperley was commissioned into the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, missing the Gallipoli...
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Brian Harold Thomson (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers)
D. C. Thomson & Co. and soldier in the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. He was widely known as "Mr Brian" within D. C. Thomson & Co. and throughout the business...
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Edward Younger, 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers)
family which had been making money from brewing since the 18th century, and which entered the aristocracy in the early years of the 20th century. His...
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Robert Balfour, 6th of Balbirnie (category Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers)
John Balfour of Balbirnie and Mary Gordon, daughter of James Gordon of Ellon. He was an officer in the 2nd Dragoons and the Fife Light Horse. His younger...
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