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In the 1790s, the threat of invasion of England was high, with the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to maximise the country's defences, a number of volunteer regiments were raised in many counties by yeomen. These regiments became known as the Yeomanry. Events and Trends French Revolution ( 1789 - 1799). ...
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A regiment is a military unit, larger than a company and smaller than a division. ...
Originally, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (in Great Britain, an earl, though the original earldoms covered larger areas) by reason of that office. ...
Yeoman is an antiquated term for a now almost-defunct British social class. ...
While this was certainly true in most cases it was also the fact that the new regiments were sometimes used to in support of the civil authority to fight rebellion as in the Irish rebellion or supress civil unrest — as in the Peterloo Massacre; so their equipping and maintainance by local landowners was by no means entirely altruistic in post-revolutionary, but pre-police, England and Ireland. Civil authority is that apparatus of the State other than its military units that enforces law and order. ...
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 or 1798 rebellion as it is known locally, was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against the British establishment in Ireland. ...
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Current Yeomanry Regiments
Today, in the modern Territorial Army, there are many of the old Yeomanry regiments serving in one form or another, usually as a squadron/battery that is part of a larger regiment: In the United Kingdom the Territorial Army is a part of the British Army composed of reserve units, or part-time soldiers. ...
Infantry
The 51st Highland Regiment is an infantry regiment of the British Territorial Army or reserve force. ...
Royal Armoured Corps
- Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry
- Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse
- North Irish Horse
- Northumberland Hussars
- East Riding (of Yorkshire) Yeomanry
The Queens Own Yeomanry is an armoured regiment of the British Territorial Army consisting of five squadrons, each of which bears the cap badge of an old yeomanry regiment: A (Ayrshire (Earl of Carricks Own) Yeomanry) Squadron B (North Irish Horse) Squadron C (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish...
- Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
- Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
- Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry
- Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own)
- Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
- Westminster Dragoons
The Royal Yeomanry (RY) is an armoured regiment of the Territorial Army consisting of five squadrons and a military band, each of which bears the cap badge of an old yeomanry regiment: A (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron B (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron C (Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry) Squadron S...
- Dorset Yeomanry
- Royal Devon Yeomanry
- Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
- Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own)
The Royal Wessex Yeomanry is an armoured regiment of the Territorial Army consisting of four squadrons, each of which bears the cap badge of an old yeomanry regiment: A (Dorset Yeomanry) Squadron B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron The Royal Wessex...
- Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)
- Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry
- Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry
- Shropshire Yeomanry
The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry is an armoured regiment of the Territorial Army consisting of five squadrons, four of which bear the cap badge of an old yeomanry regiment: HQ Squadron A (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron B (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron C (Cheshire Yeomanry) Squadron D (Duke of...
The Royal Corps of Signals (sometimes referred to incorrectly as the Royal Signal Corps and often known simply as the Royal Signals or R Sigs) is one of the arms (combat support corps) of the British Army. ...
Independent Squadrons - Berkshire Yeomanry
- 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
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
40 (Ulster) Signal Regiment
71 (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment - Essex Yeomanry
- Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
- Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, generally known as the Royal Artillery (RA), is, despite its name, a corps of the British Army It is made up of a number of regiments. ...
100 Regiment - Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry
- South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry
104 Regiment
106 (Yeomanry) Regiment - Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers)
- Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry
The Corps of Royal Engineers (RE), commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army. ...
101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment - Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)
The Royal Logistic Corps is a British military unit that provides the logistics for other units in the British military. ...
157 Transport Regiment
- First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps)
The Army Medical Services is an umbrella organisation responsible for administering the four separate units responsible for supplying medical and nursing services in the British Army. ...
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 a pair of units: - Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)
- Armoured Replacement Squadron
- Signals Squadron
- Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
- Signals Squadron
- Regimental Band
- Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
- Armoured Replacement Squadron
- 2 x Signals Squadrons
- North Irish Horse
- Armoured Reconnaissance Squadron
- Signals Squadron
- Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
- NBC Squadron
- Armoured Replacement Squadron
- Shropshire Yeomanry
- Armoured Replacement Squadron
- Signals Squadron
See also - Imperial Yeomanry
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