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1871 |
Royal
1st Devonshire Yeomanry Cavalry
HQ at Exeter |
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1893.04.01 |
troops
reorganised in squadrons |
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1900 |
co-sponsored
27th Coy, 7th Bn, Imperial
Yeomanry |
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1901.04.17 |
Royal
1st Devon Imperial Yeomanry
reorganised in four sqns and MG sec |
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1908.04.01 |
Royal
1st Devon Yeomanry
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Exeter; trained
and equipped as hussars |
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- A Squadron at Thorverton (dets at Crediton,
Tiverton, Rackenford, Cullompton, Bampton)
- B Squadron at Ottery St. Mary (dets
at Exmouth, Exeter, Axminster, Sidmouth, Dawlish)
- C Squadron at Totnes (dets at Moreton
Hampstead, Bovey Tracey, Newton Abbot, Dartmouth, Kingsbridge,
Plymouth)
- D Squadron at Bodmin (Cornwall) (dets
at Launceston, Camelford, Liskeard, Truro, Helston, Penzance)
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1920.02.07 |
reconstituted
in T.A. with HQ at Exeter |
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1920.06.07 |
amalgamated
with Royal North Devon Yeomanry, to
form 11th (Devon) Army Brigade,
RFA |
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History: |
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Royal
1st Devon Yeomanry, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the
Great War) |
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Royal
1st Devon Yeomanry, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath
1914-1918) |
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Museums,
Monuments, Memorials and Chapels: |
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Military
Museum of Devon and Dorset, Dorchester (Army Museums Ogilby
Trust) |
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The
Keep Military Museum, Dorchester (Simonides listing)
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Royal
Devon Yeomanry Collection, Museum of North Devon, Barnstaple
(Army Museums Ogilby Trust) |
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The
Keep Military Museum, Dorchester (museum site) |
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Royal
Devon Yeomanry Museum, Barnstaple (Simonides listing) |
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The
Keep Military Museum, Dorchester (WestCountry.com listing)
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South Africa
1900-01
The Great War: Somme
1918, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, France and Flanders
1918, Gallipoli
1915, Egypt 1916-17,
Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell
'Asur, Palestine 1917-18
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Commandant: |
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1842.08.16 |
Lt-Col. J. W. Buller |
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Honorary Colonel: |
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1877.03.03 |
Hon. Col. Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth,
2nd Bt. |
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1887 |
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1894.08.08 |
Hon. Col. Lord Henry Reginald Courtenay |
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vacant |
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1902.02.10 |
Hon. Col. Sir J. Shelley, Bt., TD [to
1920] |
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