Royal Wessex Yeomanry
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The Royal Wessex Yeomanry is a reserve armoured regiment of the British Army consisting of four squadrons, with the regimental headquarters based at Bovington Camp, Dorset. The regiment is part of 3rd
A Royal Wessex Yeomanry Challenger 2 during exercises on the Salisbury Plain in 2014.
Mess dress of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry
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.
Royal Wessex Yeomanry
…its history back to 4 June 1794, when a meeting of country gentlemen at the Bear Inn in Devizes decided to raise a body of ten independent troops of yeomanry for the county of Wiltshire, which became the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. The Wessex Yeomanry was formed on 1 April 1971 by re-raising cadres from the…
c. 1798 engraving of a London and Westminster Light Horse trooper
Hertfordshire Yeomanry in the 1890s
An 1804 review of yeomanry troops in Hyde Park, London.