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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 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.
100 (Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Artillery - Light artillery . Regimental Headquarters; 201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Parachute Battery, Leagrave 266 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Battery, Clifton
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]
[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]
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]
In 1983 as part of the reorganisation of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, E (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) (Home Service Force) Squadron was formed in Old Sarum, Salisbury. This HSF squadron was in-fact a lightly-equipped infantry unit tasked with home defence and guarding certain points in the event on mobilisation. [42] [43]
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 ...