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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.
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
[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 regiment is called the Royal Wessex Yeomanry. [15] The Royal Devon Yeomanry now serves as D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron, Royal Wessex Yeomanry based in North Devon and South Devon . It provides trained replacement crewmen for the Regular Army's Challenger 2 Main battle tank. [19]
Under Army 2020 (Refine), it was confirmed that the Royal Yeomanry would (exceptionally) retain all six of its squadrons, two of which had been under threat of deletion under the 2013 plan. It was also confirmed that the squadron which the regiment had lost to the Royal Wessex Yeomanry would also be retained at squadron size. [28]
A (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron, Dudley; B (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron, Telford; C (The Earl of Chester's Own Cheshire Yeomanry) Squadron, Chester; D (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry) Squadron, Wigan; Manoeuvre and Support Squadron, Hereford; The Royal Wessex Yeomanry (Tank replacement role)
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886. [2] The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewisse, though this is considered by some to ...
This is a list of British Army Yeomanry Regiments converted to Royal Artillery.In the aftermath of the First World War 25 Yeomanry regiments of the British Army were transferred to the Royal Artillery between 1920 and 1922 with another one – the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) – reduced to a battery in another regiment.