Yeomanry

In the 1790s, the threat of invasion of England was high, with the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to maximise the country's defences, a number of volunteer regiments were raised in many counties by yeomen. These regiments became known as the Yeomanry.

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Current Yeomanry Regiments

Today, in the modern Territorial Army, there are many of the old Yeomanry regiments serving in one form or another, usually as a squadron/battery that is part of a larger regiment:

Infantry

51st Highland Regiment

  • Lovat Scouts

Royal Armoured Corps

Queen's Own Yeomanry

  • Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry
  • Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse
  • North Irish Horse
  • Northumberland Hussars

Royal Yeomanry

  • Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
  • Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
  • Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry
  • Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own)
  • Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
  • Westminster Dragoons

Royal Wessex Yeomanry

  • Dorset Yeomanry
  • Royal Devon Yeomanry
  • Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
  • Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own)

Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

  • Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)
  • Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry
  • Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry
  • Shropshire Yeomanry

Royal Signals

Independent Squadrons

  • Berkshire Yeomanry
  • Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars)

32 (Scottish) Signal Regiment

  • Lanarkshire and Glasgow Yeomanry

33 (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment

  • Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)

35 (South Midlands) Signal Regiment

  • Shropshire Yeomanry

37 (Wessex and Welsh) Signal Regiment

  • Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry

39 (Skinners) Signal Regiment

  • Middlesex Yeomanry (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars)
  • North Somerset Yeomanry
  • Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

40 (Ulster) Signal Regiment

  • North Irish Horse

71 (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment

  • Essex Yeomanry
  • Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
  • Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry

Royal Artillery

100 Regiment

  • Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry
  • South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry

104 Regiment

  • Glamorgan Yeomanry

106 (Yeomanry) Regiment

  • Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers)
  • Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry

Royal Engineers

101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment

  • Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regiment)

Royal Logistic Corps

157 Transport Regiment

  • Pembroke Yeomanry

Army Medical Services

  • First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps)

Yeomanry Regiments with more than one unit

Most of the old yeomanry regiments are perpetuated through a single unit, be it an armoured, engineers or signal squadron, or an artillery battery. However, there are six yeomanry regiments that maintain a pair of units:

  • Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)
    • Armoured Replacement Squadron
    • Signals Squadron
  • Inns of Court and City Yeomanry
    • Signals Squadron
    • Regimental Band
  • Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
    • Armoured Replacement Squadron
    • Signals Squadron
  • North Irish Horse
    • Armoured Reconnaissance Squadron
    • Signals Squadron
  • Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
    • NBC Squadron
    • Armoured Replacement Squadron
  • Shropshire Yeomanry
    • Armoured Replacement Squadron
    • Signals Squadron

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