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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.
Bovington Camp (/ ˈ b ɒ v ɪ ŋ t ən /) is a British Army military base in Dorset, South West England.Together with Lulworth Camp it forms part of Bovington Garrison.. The garrison is home to The Armour Centre and contains two barracks complexes and two forest and heathland training areas that support Phase Two training for soldiers of the Royal Armoured Corps and trade training for the ...
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 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]
The Army Cadet Force (ACF) is a cadet organisation based in the United Kingdom.It is a voluntary youth group sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (British Army).Local units of the ACF, called Detachments, are based in towns and villages across the UK and formed of those cadets and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers (CFAVs) parading together at that location.
The first is a list of yeomanry units on the establishment at the outbreak of the First World War and therefore contains units that had been disbanded by the time of The Royal Yeomanry Review. This first list does not contain the North Irish , South Irish or King Edward's Horse who were on the Special Reserve [1] at this time.
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry went on to serve at home and abroad, including in the Boer War, both World Wars, and live on as B (RWY) Squadron and Y (RWY) Squadron of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, based in Old Sarum and Swindon respectively. [16] A new Devizes Prison, or County House of Corrections, was opened in 1817.