Royal Devon Yeomanry
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The Royal Devon Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1920. It participated in the Second World War and now forms a squadron of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
Badge of the Royal Devon Yeomanry Artillery
A battery of 142nd Field Regiment Bishops at a former German airfield in Sicily, October 1943
The 45th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army, formed just prior to the start of the Second World War. In March 1939, after the re-emergence of Germany as a significant milit
Royal Devon Yeomanry
…Regiment served in the Home Forces for most of the war, moving to India in January 1945. At the outbreak of the war, 96th Field Regiment was part of 45th Division. Initially commanding two batteries – 381 from Torverton and 382 from Totnes – the third battery (469) was formed in the regiment at Knottingley in…
Men of the division firing a Bren light machine gun during training.
Members of the division scale an Essex cliff during training