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1794.06.04 |
independent
troop raised at Devizes |
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1794.06.21+ |
troops
raised at Bradford, Trowbridge and Melksham, Chippenham and Calne,
Malmesbury, Swindon, Everleigh, Hindon, Warminster |
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1797.07.07+ |
troops
raised at Salisbury and Marlborough |
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1797 |
Wiltshire Yeomanry
Cavalry
regimentation of existing troops |
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1830 |
Royal Wiltshire
Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
HQ at Salisbury |
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1863.04.23 |
The Prince
of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry
(named for the future King
Edward VII on the occasion of his marriage) |
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1893.04.01 |
troops
reorganised in squadrons |
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1900 |
sponsored
1st and 2nd Coys, 1st Bn, Imperial
Yeomanry |
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1900 |
sponsored
63rd Coy, 16th Bn, Imperial Yeomanry |
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1898? |
HQ
moved to Chippenham |
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1901.04.17 |
Royal Wiltshire
Imperial Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment)
reorganised in four sqns and MG sec, trained
and equipped as mounted infantry |
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1908.04.01 |
Royal Wiltshire
Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment)
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Chippenham, trained
and equipped as hussars |
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- A Squadron at Warminster (dets at Longbridge
Deverell, Whiteparish, Salisbury, Amesbury, Trowbridge)
- B Squadron at Chirton (dets at Melksham,
Marlborough, Devizes, Lavington, Urchfront)
- C Squadron at Chippenham (dets at Corsham,
Wootton Bassett, Malmesbury, Calne, Purton, Ashton Keynes)
- D Squadron at Swindon
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1920.02.07 |
The Royal Wiltshire
Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Trowbridge |
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1941.04.12 |
transferred to
Royal Armoured Corps
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1947.01.01 |
The Royal Wiltshire
Yeomanry (The Prince of Wales's Own)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Swindon |
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- A Squadron at Warminster
- C Squadron at Chippenham
- D Squadron at Swindon
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1967.04.01 |
disbanded
and concurrently reconstituted as two units: |
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1969.01.01 |
TAVR
III element reduced to cadre as The
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own),
sponsored by The Royal Yeomanry Regiment
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1971.04.01 |
cadre
reconstituted as B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry)
Squadron, Wessex Yeomanry
at Salisbury |
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1999.07.01 |
A
Squadron reroled in Joint
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Regiment |
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History: |
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Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry (Regimental site) |
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A
Squadron (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry), The Royal Yeomanry Regiment
(RY site) |
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A
Squadron (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry), The Royal Yeomanry Regiment
(Army site) |
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The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, 
by Paul Baker (History of the Hussars)
[Internet
Archive] |
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A
Squadron (Regimental site) |
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B Squadron (Regimental site) |
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History
of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Part one, 1794-1907 (Regimental
site) |
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History
of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Part two, 1907-1967 (Regimental
site) |
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History
of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Part three, 1967-1977 (Regimental
site) |
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History
of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (RY site) |
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History
of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Army site) |
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Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry (Fovant Badges Society) |
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The
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales' Own): An account, based
on the Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire, (The Prince
of Wales' Own Regiment), of the part played by the Regiment
in the South African War, 1899-1902, by Doreen Barfield (South
African Military History Journal, Vol 2, No 1) |
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Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the
Great War) |
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Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath
1914-1918) |
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Deployment and War Service of Units: |
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1/1st
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry [1914-1919] |
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2/1st
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry [1914-1919] |
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3/1st
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry [1915-1917]
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Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry [1939-1945] |
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Biography
and Gallantry Awards: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Associations,
Forums and Re-Enactors: |
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RWY
Regimental Association |
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Museums,
Monuments, Memorials and Chapels: |
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Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry Museum, Trowbridge (Simonides listing) |
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Swindon
Museum & Art Gallery, Swindon (Simonides listing) |
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South Africa
1900-01
The Great War: Ypres
1917, Broodseinde, Passchendaele,
Somme 1918, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Messines 1918, Bailleul,
Kemmel, France and Flanders 1916-18
The Second World War:
Iraq 1941,
Palmyra,
Syria 1941, El
Alamein,
North Africa 1942, Liri
Valley, Advance to Tiber, Citta della Pieve, Trasimene Line, Advance
to Florence, Monte Cedrone, Citta di Castello,
Italy 1944
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Record of Colours: |
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
1953-present: blue; facings: white |
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Colonel-in-Chief: |
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1919.06.02 |
F.M. HM
King Edward VIII [to 1967; from 1937 as Duke
of Windsor] |
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Commandant: |
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1837.06.30 |
Lt-Col. Sir George William Frederick (Brudenell-Bruce),
2nd Marquess of Ailesbury (Earl Bruce) |
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Honorary Colonel, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry: |
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1876 |
Lt-Col. Sir George William Frederick (Brudenell-Bruce),
2nd Marquess of Ailesbury (Earl Bruce) |
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1878-<85> |
vacant |
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1890.11.15 |
Hon. Col. John Alexander (Thynne), 4th
Marquess of Bath |
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1896 |
vacant |
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1897.02.24 |
Hon. Col. Rt. Hon. Henry Charles Keith
(Petty-FitzMaurice), 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG,
GCIE [Gov-Gen
Canada, Viceroy India] |
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1927.11.23 |
Hon. Maj-Gen. Thomas Charles Pleydell
Calley, CB, CBE, MVO |
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1932.06.18 |
Hon. Col. Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry (Thynne),
5th Marquess of Bath, KG, CB, TD
[also 4th Bn Somerset LI] |
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1939.07.16 |
Hon. Col. Ulric Oliver Thynne, CMG, DSO,
TD |
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1945.11.06 |
Hon. Col. E. P. Awdry, MC, TD |
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1951.11.06 |
Lt-Col. (Hon. Col.) A. M. Gibb, TD |
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1955.12.13 |
Lt-Col. (Hon. Col. F. F. B. St. George,
CVO |
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1960.12.13 |
Col. John Granville (Morrison), 1st Baron
Margadale of Islay, TD, JP, DL [also Col. Cmdt.
Yeomanry; Hon. Col. RYR;
HM Lt Wiltshire] |
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Honorary Colonel, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
Sqns [1967-1971]: |
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1967.04.01 |
Col. John Granville (Morrison), 1st Baron
Margadale of Islay, TD, JP, DL [reappointed;
also R Wiltshire Territorials] |
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Deputy Honorary Colonel,
Wessex Yeomanry [1971-1972]: |
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1971.04.01 |
Col. John Granville (Morrison), 1st Baron
Margadale of Islay, TD, JP, DL [reappointed; to
31 Mar. 1972] |
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Honorary Colonel, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
Sqns [1972-present]: |
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1972.04.01 |
Col. Sir Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs,
CB, DSO, TD [also Col. Cmdt. Yeomanry;
Hon. Col. RYR; HM Lt Gloucestershire] |
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1982.11.15 |
Col. James Ian (Morrison), 2nd Baron Margadale
of Islay, TD, DL [also
R Wessex Yeo] |
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1989.05.01 |
Col. David Charles Part, OBE, TD, DL |
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1995.05.01 |
Col. J.G. Peel, TD [tenure
expired 1 Nov. 2003] |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
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Musicians: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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Full Histories:
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Graham, Henry. The annals of the
Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire, being a complete history of the Prince
of Wales's Own Royal Regiment, from the time of its formation in
1794 to October 1884. Liverpool : D. Marples & Co.,
1886. |
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Graham, Henry. The annals of the
Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire. Vol. 2, being a complete history
of the Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment, from the time of its
formation in 1893 to 1908. Devizes : Geo. Simpson "Gazette"
Printing Works, 1908. |
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Pitts, P.W. Royal Wilts. : the history
of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, 1920-1945. London : Burrup,
Mathiesen & Co., 1946. |
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Stevens, F. "Yeomanry light cavalry
uniforms in Wiltshire." In: Wiltshire archaeological
and natural history magazine, vol. xlix (1940), p. 339-345. |
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Short Histories:
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Pettit, William. A list of the Wiltshire
Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry... corrected to the First of January
1799. Salisbury : printed by B.C. Collins, 1799. |
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