The Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army from 1956 to 1971. Royal Yeomanry Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle 2m 4f 110y (3yo+, 2m 4f 110y, Class 4, 6 runners) Winner £3,769 2nd £1,107 3rd £553 4th £350 5th £350 6th £350 7th £350 8th £350 However, on the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914, many members volunteered for Imperial Service. The 1M 53Y 18:35 ROYAL YEOMANRY HANDICAP (4) at Leicester was run on Gd/Frm. [30], From 2007 to 2014, the Royal Yeomanry also provided officers and soldiers for Operation HERRICK in Afghanistan, [21] [31] including a deployment of seven soldiers on Operation HERRICK 7 (one of whom, Corporal James Dunsby, served as gunner in HRH Prince Harry's armoured fighting vehicle). The two squadrons were amalgamated with a number of augmentees from the other three squadrons of the Royal Yeomanry and from 160 Transport Regiment Royal Logistic Corps to form a much-enlarged "Y" Squadron comprising 116 personnel, which deployed as part of the Joint NBC Regiment. During the crisis of 1794, when there were grave fears of a French invasion, the government pressed for the formation of volunteer corps across the country, and in April 1794, letters were circulated to the Lords Lieutenant of each county instructing them to raise regiments of yeomanry. It was formed in 1992 by the amalgamation of two other regiments: The 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. Six further troops – officered by nobility and gentry, and recruited largely from among landholders and tenant farmers – were subsequently raised in Gloucestershire, and in 1834 they came together to form the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. The commission decided that only the 14 most senior regiments were to be retained as cavalry (though the Lovat Scouts and the Scottish Horse were also to remain mounted as "scouts"). In early 1917, it was absorbed into the 3rd Reserve Cavalry Regiment, still at Aldershot. The regiment paraded in six troops on 4 July to receive their standards. The Royal Yeomanry was equipped with armoured cars, [1] first Saladin, Saracen and Ferret, then Fox, Spartan and Sultan. Its lineage is continued by one of the Royal Yeomanry's six squadrons. As part of the Cavalry Corps, which by now consisted almost entirely of Yeomanry units, it was assigned a wartime role as part of the 6th Cavalry Brigade in the 1st Cavalry Division. On 24 February 2015, as part the same Army 2020 reorganisation programme, the Royal Yeomanry was transferred from under the command of Headquarters London District to that of 7th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters East within 1st (United Kingdom) Division as the brigade switched from its armour role into that of an infantry brigade and regional point of command. [16], A Squadron, meanwhile, had held the support trench under strong shellfire until 5:30am, when they began to fall back towards the road behind the trenches. A general history of the regiment was published after the First World War, and regimental histories of both field artillery regiments were published after the Second. The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (RWY) was a Yeomanry regiment of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom established in 1794. The light cavalry role is physically arduous and members of the Royal Yeomanry are required to meet the Army Reserve Ground Close Combat fitness standards, [35] so Royal Yeomanry officers and soldiers are required to undertake physical fitness training in their own time in addition to what is provided to them by physical training instructors. [40] Many of its musicians are retired members of the Bands of the Household Division and other British Army bands. Consequently, in 1996 [12] the Royal Yeomanry accepted the role of being the British Army's only [13] specialist nuclear, biological and chemical defence regiment, [12] [1] taking on the 11 Fuchs CBRN reconnaissance vehicles which had been acquired by the British Army during the 1990 Gulf War. The brigade, now known as the 'Black Rats', was formed in 1939 and fought in the Second World War in the Western Desert Campaign in North Africa. 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