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The Yeomanry were units of mounted volunteers, first raised in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, to defend against invasion from abroad or revolution at home.

In the 1790s, the threat of invasion of the Kingdom of Great Britain was high, after the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to improve the country's defences, volunteer regiments were raised in many counties from yeomen. The word "yeoman" refers to small farmers who owned the land they cultivated, but the officers were drawn from the nobility and many of the men were their tenants. These regiments became known collectively as the Yeomanry. Members of the yeomanry were not obliged to serve overseas without their individual consent.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, Yeomanry Regiments were used extensively in support of the civil authority to quell riots and civil disturbances (including the Peterloo Massacre), but as police forces took over this role, the Yeomanry concentrated on local defence.

During the Boer War, companies of The Imperial Yeomanry were formed to serve overseas from volunteers from the Yeomanry.

In 1908, the Yeomanry became part of the Territorial Army.

Current Yeomanry Regiments

Today, in the modern Territorial Army, there are many former Yeomanry regiments serving in one form or another, usually as a squadron/battery that is part of a larger unit:

Royal Armoured Corps

Royal Yeomanry

Royal Wessex Yeomanry

Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

  • Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry
  • Shropshire Yeomanry
  • Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)
  • Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

Queen's Own Yeomanry

  • Yorkshire Yeomanry
  • Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry
  • Northumberland Hussars
  • Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse
  • North Irish Horse

Infantry

Royal Regiment of Scotland

Royal Signals

Independent Squadrons

  • Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars)

32 (Scottish) Signal Regiment

  • Lanarkshire and Glasgow Yeomanry

33 (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment

  • Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)

35 (South Midlands) Signal Regiment

  • Shropshire Yeomanry

36 (Eastern) Signal Regiment

37 (Wessex and Welsh) Signal Regiment

  • Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry

39 (Skinners) Signal Regiment

  • Middlesex Yeomanry (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars)
  • North Somerset Yeomanry
  • Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars
  • Berkshire Yeomanry

40 (Ulster) Signal Regiment

  • North Irish Horse

71 (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment

Royal Artillery

100 Regiment

  • Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry
  • South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry

104 Regiment

  • Glamorgan Yeomanry

106 (Yeomanry) Regiment

  • Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers)
  • Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry (re-roled to become 677 (Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry) Squadron Army Air Corps (Volunteers), part of 6 Regt AAC (V) 2 July 2006)

Royal Engineers

101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment

  • Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)

71 Engineer Regiment

Royal Logistic Corps

157 Transport Regiment

  • Pembroke Yeomanry

Army Medical Services

Yeomanry Regiments with more than one unit

Most of the old yeomanry regiments are perpetuated through a single unit, be it an armoured, engineers or signal squadron, or an artillery battery. However, there are six yeomanry regiments that maintain more than one unit:
  • Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)
  • Challenger 2 Replacement Squadron
  • Signals Squadron
  • Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
  • Signals Squadron
  • Regimental Band
  • Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
  • NBC Recce Squadron
  • Signals Squadron
  • North Irish Horse
  • Armoured Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Signals Squadron
  • Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
  • NBC Recce Squadron
  • Armoured Replacement Squadron
  • Shropshire Yeomanry
  • Challenger 2 Replacement Squadron
  • Signals Squadron

See also

Imperial Yeomanry
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Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry is a unit of the Territorial Army ('TA') that was formed in 1961 as the Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) by the amalgamation of two yeomanry regiments, the 297 (Kent Yeomanry) Regt, Royal Artillery and the 3rd/4th County of
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