Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
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The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (RWY) was a Yeomanry regiment of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom established in 1794. It was disbanded as an independent Territorial Army unit in 1967, a time when the strength of the Territorial Army was greatly reduced. The regiment lives on in B Squadron of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
Badge and service cap as worn at the outbreak of World War II – the cap badge is simply the Prince of Wales' feathers
Officers of the regiment, 1903
CWGC headstone in Rose Hill Cemetery, Cowley, Oxfordshire of an RWY private who died in 1919 six months after the Armistice
Dispositions at the end of Operation Supercharge
Yeomanry
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Yeomanry is a designation used by a number of units and sub-units in the British Army Reserve which are descended from volunteer cavalry regiments that now serve in a variety of different roles.
Hertfordshire Yeomanry in the 1890s
An 1804 review of yeomanry troops in Hyde Park, London.