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Page created 1 November 2000. Corrected and updated 16.07.2006
 
 
 The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
 
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
1794.08.09 independent troops of yeomanry at Retford, Mansfield, Newark, and Nottingham
1802? all except Nottingham troop disbanded
1802.06.22 Newark troop re-formed
1828.05.27 Sherwood Rangers Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
formed with HQ at Worksop
18uu Nottinghamshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry (Sherwood Rangers)
1893.04.01 troops reorganised in squadrons; HQ at Retford
1900 sponsored 10th Coy, 3rd Bn, Imperial Yeomanry
1901.04.17 Nottinghamshire Imperial Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)
reorganised in four sqns and MG sec
1908.04.01 Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Retford; trained and equipped as hussars
 
  • A Squadron at Newark (dets at Sutton-on-Trent, Collingham)
  • B Squadron at Mansfield (dets at Chesterfield, Alfreton, Pinxton, Kirkby-in-Ashfield)
  • C Squadron at Worksop (dets at Clubmer, Normanton)
  • D Squadron at Retford (dets at Ranskill, Trent Port, Melton Ross, Misterton)
1920.02.07 The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Retford
192u HQ moved to Newark
1941.04.12 transferred to Royal Armoured Corps
1947.01.01 reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Newark
 
  • B Squadron at Mansfield
  • C Squadron at Worksop
  • D Squadron at Retford
1951.09.01 The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
1967.04.01 disbanded and concurrently reconstituted at two units:
 
  • B (Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry Regiment, formed in TAVR II at Carlton, Nottingham
  • The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (Territorials), formed in TAVR III with HQ at Newark
    • A Squadron at Retford
    • C Squadron at Newark
1969.01.01 TAVR III element reduced to cadre as The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry at Nottingham, sponsored by The Royal Yeomanry Regiment
1971.04.01 reorganised as two squadrons:
 
1975 A Sqn redesignated A (Sherwood Rangers) Company
1992.04.01 B Sqn transferred to The Queen's Own Yeomanry
1999.07.01 B Sqn transferred as S (Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry (at Nottingham); A Company disbanded
   
 
     
  Associated Regular Regiments:
    Hussars 1908-1941
    17th/21st Lancers 1947-1993
The Queen's Royal Lancers 1993-present
 
 
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
crown A (The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry (RY site)
crown The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (Army site)
pip The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, by Paul.
pip History of The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (RY site)
pip History of The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (Army site)
pip Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers), by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
pip Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers), by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
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Biography and Gallantry Awards:
pip Roll of Honour, Great War
pip Awards and Honour Roll, WW2
   
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
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Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
monument Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Museum (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-02

The Great War:  Struma, Macedonia 1916-17, Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-16, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1917-18

The Second World War:  Normandy Landing, Villers Bocage, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Mont Pincon, Jurques, Noireau Crossing, Seine 1944, Gheil, Nederrijn, Geilenkirchen, Roer, Rhineland, Cleve, Goch, Weeze, Rhine, North-West Europe 1944-45, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, El Aghiela, Advance on Tripoli, Tebaga Gap, Point 201 (Roman Wall), El Hamma, Chebket en Nouiges, Enfidaville, Takrouna, North Africa 1940-43
  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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Record of Colours:
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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1953-present: green; facings: dark green
   
   
     
   
   
  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
  Commandant:
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1840.04.29 Lt-Col. Sir Thomas Woollaston White, Bt., JP
 
  Honorary Colonel:
1879.08.20 Hon. Col. S. William Welfitt
  <1895-1903> vacant
1903.12.19 Col. George Edmund Milnes (Monckton-Arundell), 7th Viscount Galway, CB, TD, ADC
1931.06.13 Hon. Col. Sir Albert E. Whitaker, Bt., CBE, TD
1948.02.08 Col. Baron Barnaby of Blythe, CMG, CBE, MVO, TD
1954.02.08 Hon. Col. William Arthur Henry (Cavendish-Bentinck), 7th Duke of Portland, KG, TD [also 350 (Robin Hood Foresters) Lt Regt RA, Nottingham Univ OTC; Hon. Air Cdr. 616 (South Yorkshire) Sqn RAAF, 2616 (South Yorkshire) Field Sqn RAAF; HM Lt Nottinghamshire]
1960.05.01 Col. (Hon. Maj-Gen.) Sir Robert Laycock, KCMG, CB, DSO
1967.04.01 Col. (Hon. Maj-Gen.) Sir Robert Laycock, KCMG, CB, DSO [reappointed]
1968.10.01 Lt-Col. (Bt. Col.) Patrick James Danvers McCraith, MC, TD, DL
1969.04.01 Lt-Col. (Bt. Col.) Patrick James Danvers McCraith, MC, TD, DL [reappointed; also Dep. Hon. Col. 3rd Bn, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regt 1 Apr. 1971 to 31 Mar. 1972]
1979.10.01 Maj. Richard Francis Abel Smith, TD, DL
1989.09.30 Hon. Col. Sir Andrew Buchanan, Bt., DL
1994.10.01 Col. J.C.V. Hunt, OBE, TD, DL
  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography How To Find Books
book D.C. Barbour.  A short history of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, 1794-1953.  Worksop : Sisson & Son, 1953.
book R.L. Birkin.  History of the 3rd Regiment Imperial Yeomanry, 28-1-00 to 6-8-02.  Nottingham : J & J Vice, 1905.
book H. Tallents.  The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry in the Great War, 1914-1918.  London : Philip Allan & Co., 1926.
book T.M. Lindsay.  Sherwood Rangers : the story of the Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry in the Second World War.  London : Burrup, Mathieson & Co., 1952
book A.O.W. Kindell.  Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron Sherwood Rangers Yeo.-South Notts Hussars.  London : J.M. Baxter & Co., 1920.