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The Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry (SNIY) is a reserve light cavalry regiment created in 2014 as part of the restructuring of the British Army's Army Reserve.It is operationally paired with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, based at Leuchars Station in Fife, Scotland.
The Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry was a Regiment of the British Yeomanry and is now an armoured Squadron of the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry (SNIY), part of the British Army Reserve. It is the Lowlands of Scotland's only Royal Armoured Corps Unit and has an unbroken history stretching back to the 1790s.
The Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry is the only yeomanry regiment that serves in the formation reconnaissance role, equipped with the Scimitar and Spartan armoured reconnaissance vehicles. On mobilisation, it would reinforce one of the regular army formation reconnaissance regiments.
C (Cheshire Yeomanry) Squadron, Chester; The Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry (Light Reconnaissance) — Paired with regular Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. Regimental Headquarters in Edinburgh; A (The Earl of Carrick's Own Ayrshire Yeomanry) Squadron, Ayr; B (The North Irish Horse) Squadron, Belfast; C (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Squadron, Cupar
The regiment converted to the role of light cavalry as part of restructuring in the army under Army 2020.It is equipped with Jackal armoured fighting vehicles. [16] The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is paired with the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry, an Army Reserve light cavalry regiment.
The Irish Yeomanry, which had played a major role in suppressing the rebellion of 1798, ... (Scottish) Signal Regiment. 40 (North Irish Horse) Signal Squadron;
The British Army, in the modern sense of the standing army under the Crown, was formed following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1661. At this point, the small standing forces included the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Troops of Horse Guards and the Royal Regiment of Horse; some of these had been raised in exile and some as part of the New Model Army.
Numerous Scottish units also fought in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and during the 1660 Stuart Restoration the Scots Army was established as the army of the Kingdom of Scotland. As a result of the Acts of Union 1707 , the Scots Army was merged with the English Army to form the British Army , which contained numerous prominent Scottish regiments.