Francis Whitmore
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Colonel Sir Francis Henry Douglas Charlton Whitmore, 1st Baronet was a British Army officer and landowner.
Whitmore in 1919, by Frank Dicksee
The Whitmore Arms, Orsett
Imperial Yeomanry
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The Imperial Yeomanry was a mounted infantry formation of the British Army which served in the Second Boer War. Raised on 2 January 1900, the formation was initially recruited from the British middle
Francis Whitmore
…and in 1892 he was commissioned into the 1st Essex Artillery Volunteers. He later transferred to the Essex Yeomanry and served in the Boer War with the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the First World War and was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1915, eventually commanding the 10th Royal Hussars. He was mentioned in…
A trooper of the Imperial Yeomanry
Wounded soldiers at the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital
Illustration of an Imperial Yeomanry trooper