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The Royal Wessex Yeomanry is a reserve armoured regiment of the British Army Reserve consisting of five squadrons.Formerly part of 43 (Wessex) Brigade, the regiment joined 3rd Division in July 2014, to provide armoured (main battle tank) resilience to the three armoured regiments within the Reaction Force.
[8] [9] [b] The King wore a kilt made from the Royal Stuart tartan, the Princess Royal wore the full dress uniform of the Royal Navy, the Earl of Wessex and Forfar wore the No.1 dress uniform of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, of which he is the Royal Honorary Colonel, and the Duke of York wore black morning dress with medals. [10]
The Reserve regiments of the Royal Armoured Corps are known as the Yeomanry. [3] The Royal Yeomanry (Light Reconnaissance) — Paired with 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards [4] Regimental Headquarters, in South Wigston, Leicester (moved from Fulham) Command and Support (Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, at Fulham House, Fulham, London
The Royal Yeomanry – Farmer's Boy (Quick) The Royal Wessex Yeomanry - God Bless The Prince of Wales (Quick) The Queen's Own Yeomanry – D'ye ken John Peel (Quick) Royal Artillery – Voice Of The Guns (Quick); The Duchess of Kent (Slow) Royal Engineers – Wings/The British Grenadiers; Royal Corps of Signals – Begone Dull Care (Quick), HRH ...
Ponsonby was born to Col. the Hon. Thomas Maurice Ponsonby (1930–2001) of The Common, Little Faringdon, Lechlade, late Royal Wessex Yeomanry, High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, and his wife Maxine Henrietta (née Thellusson, 1934–2020), daughter of William Dudley Keith Thellusson, of 39, Draycott Place, SW3, [2] [3] [4] of the Brodsworth Hall branch of the family of the Barons Rendlesham. [5]
The largest contingent is still associated with the successors to the cavalry, the Royal Armoured Corps, with four regiments, each made up of several squadrons representing an old yeomanry regiment. They are the Royal Yeomanry, [65] the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, [66] the Queen's Own Yeomanry [67] and the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry.
^ A Sqn Royal Yeomanry ^ Band of the Royal Yeomanry ^ B Sqn Royal Wessex Yeomanry ^ A and HQ Sqns Royal Wessex Yeomanry ^ A Sqn Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry ^ HQ Sqn Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry ^ C Sqn Queen's Own Yeomanry ^ 80 Sig Sqn (V), 33 Sig Regt (V) ^ 95 Sig Sqn (V), 35 Sig Regt (V) ^ 67 Sig Sqn (V), 37 Sig Regt (V)
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) [ edit ] In 1907 the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry was established as an all female volunteer organisation to provide a link between field hospitals and the front line, with their primary role being to rescue the wounded, rather than provide nursing care.