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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1800–1882) (category West Somerset Yeomanry officers)
Kemeys-Tynte, and his wife Anne Leyson. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the West Somerset Yeomanry and was appointed Colonel of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry...
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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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The Royal North Devon Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. First raised in 1798, it participated in the Second Boer War and the First...
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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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composition: 1/1st Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry 1/1st Royal North Devon Yeomanry 1/1st West Somerset Yeomanry 1/1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry 1/1st Lovat Scouts 1/2nd...
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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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"West Somerset Yeomanry at Regiments.org". Archived from the original on 26 December 2005. Retrieved 26 December 2005. "Dorset & Somerset Yeomanry at...
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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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Arthur Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport (category West Somerset Yeomanry officers)
become heavily mortgaged. In retirement he was Colonel of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (1872–95). He succeeded to his father's English titles in...
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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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