Royal North Devon Yeomanry
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The Royal North Devon Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. First raised in 1798, it participated in the Second Boer War and the First World War before being amalgamated with the Royal
Badge of Royal North Devon Hussars, as seen on framed mural monument in Exford Church, Somerset, to Major Morland Greig (1864–1915), of Edgcott, Exford, Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, killed in action at Gallipoli. The badge is derived from the crest of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (d.1842), of Stevenstone, who played a significant role in raising the predecessor regiment: A cubit arm erect vested or charged with a fess indented double cotised azure in the hand a roll of parchment. The badge is also shown, but with the hand grasping a palm frond, sculpted on the mural monument in the Church of
Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue (1854–1932), Honorary Colonel
Granite obelisk monument to Lt-Col. Algernon Carteret Thynne (1868-1917), DSO, Kilkhampton, Cornwall
Lt Col Collis George Herbert St Hill Royal North Devon Hussars Died 1917
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