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    The East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry was a unit of the British Army formed in 1902. Units of Yeomanry Cavalry were raised in the East Riding of Yorkshire...
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    campaigns of the Second World War. In 1956, it merged with the Yorkshire Hussars and the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry to form the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry...
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    Riding of Yorkshire resolved to raise Troops of yeomanry. The Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire, the Duke of Norfolk, proceeded to raise two regiments of West...
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  • Yeomanry and the 1/1st East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry E Battalion, Machine Gun Corps was formed by the merger of the 1/1st City of London Yeomanry...
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  • East. It is part of the Royal Armoured Corps and consists of four squadrons: A (Yorkshire Yeomanry) Squadron B (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry)...
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  • name suggests, the Yorkshire Mounted Brigade comprised the Yeomanry regiments from the three Ridings of Yorkshire (the East Yorkshire regiment having been...
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  • Mounted Brigade, previously known as the 2/1st Yorkshire Mounted Brigade, was a 2nd Line yeomanry brigade of the British Army during the First World War...
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  • Yorkshire (Yorkshire Volunteers); 3rd Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Yorkshire Volunteers); and the King's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (Light Infantry)...
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  • Yorkshire Hussars, the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons and the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry in 1956. The regiment was equipped with Daimler Dingo armoured...
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  • Regimental Technical Adjutant with the rank of Captain in the East Riding Yeomanry, he was responsible for the upkeep of fifty-two tanks, two hundred soft vehicles...
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  • David Holbrook (category East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry officers)
    until 1945 as an officer with the East Riding Yeomanry. His novel Flesh Wounds (1966) is a lightly fictionalised account of his D-Day campaign experiences...
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  • Geoffrey Shaw (MP) (category East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry officers)
    with them until February 1916, then transferring to the East Riding Yeomanry until the end of the war. He returned to Cambridge to study law, and in 1923...
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    East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry and the 144 Regiment RAC. The Brigade's role was infantry support, therefore it rarely fought as an entity. One of the...
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  • Ronald Cooke (British Army officer) (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    He served in the Second World War as commanding officer of the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry from 1940, as Brigadier Royal Armoured Corps for the 1st...
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    headquarters of the 2nd Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery and opened in April 1911. The riding school of the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry, which...
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  • Bedfordshire Yeomanry Essex Yeomanry Northamptonshire Yeomanry East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Lovat Scouts Scottish Horse – two regiments with a third formed...
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  • Arthur Fisher (British Army officer) (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    commanding officer of the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry in 1940 and went on to see action in North Africa, becoming commander of 1st Armoured Brigade...
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  • 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    the Great War: The East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Chris Baker, The British Army in the Great War: The Scottish Horse Yeomanry Quarterly Army List...
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    Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock (category East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry officers)
    Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry on 15 May 1902 and later became its Honorary Colonel. He also held the honorary colonelcies of several...
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  • 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Bedfordshire Yeomanry Essex Yeomanry Northamptonshire Yeomanry East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry 1st Lovat's...
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    Chant, p 51 R.W.S. Norfolk, Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteer Forces of the East Riding 1689–1908, York: East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1965. 582nd...
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  • 1st Mounted Division (category Cavalry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    replaced by 1/1st Welsh Horse Yeomanry in early 1915. 1/1st East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry replaced 1/1st Welsh Horse Yeomanry in the North Midland Mounted...
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  • with the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry. Lord Garnock was unsuccessful Conservative parliamentary candidate for Buckrose, East Yorkshire, in 1906....
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    Guy Wilson (politician) (category East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry officers)
    retired from the full-time army service in 1903, but joined the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry, being commissioned as a captain on 17 December 1904 and promoted...
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    area covers the ceremonial counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire; areas near Barnsley are recruitment...
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    Chris. "Northamptonshire Yeomanry". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 12 October 2012. Baker, Chris. "East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry". The Long Long Trail...
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    Second World War. The battalion was formed by the conversion of the 10th (East Riding Yeomanry) Battalion, Green Howards to parachute duties in May 1943...
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  • Edmund Calverley (category East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry officers)
    lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Calverley served as an officer in the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry, holding the rank of captain by September...
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  • Basil Skinner (category East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry officers)
    University of Edinburgh. His studies were interrupted by the Second World War during which he served first with the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry before...
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  • The West Riding Royal Horse Artillery was a Territorial Force Royal Horse Artillery battery that was formed in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1908. It...
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