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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
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]
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)
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 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 ...
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 following is taken from the last page of the programme printed for The Royal Yeomanry Review. As on that day, the list below has been divided into blocks corresponding to the order in which the units formed and grouped. The Royal Yeomanry; Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry (PAO) Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry