The North Somerset Yeomanry [UK]

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Page created 1 November 2000. Corrected and updated 19.06.2006

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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.

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Titles and Lineage

English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles


	1798.05.02	North Somersetshire Yeomanry Cavalry one troop raised at Frome
	1802	disbanded

	1803.08.13	North Somersetshire Yeomanry Cavalry re-formed with two troops
	1803	Frome and East Mendip Regiment of Volunteer Cavalry amalgamated with East Mendip troop
	18uu	augmented to six troops (two at Frome, two at Wells, one each at Shepton and Batcombe)
	1814	North Somersetshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
	18uu	seventh through twelfth troops raised at Keynsham, Stoneaston, East Harptree and Bedminster (including Bath Rifles)
	18uu	North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry HQ at Bath
	18uu	organised in two divisions at Bath and Frome
	18uu	troop raised at Wincanton
	1842	Keynsham troop disbanded (establishment now eight troops)
	1893.04.01	troops reorganised in squadrons
	1900	sponsored 48th Coy, 7th Bn, Imperial Yeomanry
	1901.04.17	North Somerset Imperial Yeomanry reorganised in four sqns and MG sec
	1908.04.01	The North Somerset Yeomanry transferred to T.F. with HQ at Shepton Mallet, trained and equipped as dragoons
		A Squadron at Bath (dets at Bathampton, Farmborough, Frome, Mells, Road) B Squadron at Weston-super-Mare (dets at Axbridge, Clevedon, Langford, Nailsea) C Squadron at Shepton Mallet (dets at Queen Camel, Ston Easton, Wells, Wincanton, Castle Cary) D Squadron at Bristol (dets at Queen Charlton, Barrow Gurney, Keynsham)
	1912?	HQ moved to Bath
	1920.02.07	The North Somerset Yeomanry reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Taunton
	192u	HQ moved to Bath
	1941.09	transferred to *Royal Armoured Corps*
	1942.03.21	4th Air Formation Signals (North Somerset Yeomanry), Royal Signals
	1945.02	14th Air Formation Signals (North Somerset Yeomanry), Royal Signals
	1947.01.01	The North Somerset Yeomanry reconstituted in T.A. (in airborne role) with HQ at Bath and transferred to *Royal Armoured Corps*
		B Squadron at Weston-super-Mare C Squadron at Shepton Mallett D Squadron at Bristol
	1956.10.31	amalgamated with 44th/50th Royal Tank Regiment, to form The North Somerset Yeomanry/44th Royal Tank Regiment

	2002?	HQ Squadron (North Somerset Yeomanry), 39th (Skinners) Signal Regiment, Royal Signals yeomanry title revived in existing unit at Bristol



*Associated Regular Regiments:*
	Dragoons	1908-1942
	?	1947-1956

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Volunteers


	*History:*
		North Somerset Yeomanry (Somerset Military Museum)
		North Somerset Yeomanry, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
		North Somerset Yeomanry, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)

	*Deployment and War Service of Units:*


	*Biography and Gallantry Awards:*
		Somerset Roll of Honour, 1914-18

	Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
		[no external sites have been found]

	*Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:*
		Somerset Military Museum, Taunton (Museum site)
		Somerset Military Museum, Taunton (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		Somerset Military Museum, Taunton (Simonides listing)

Battle Honours

Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars


	South Africa 1900-01 The Great War¹: Ypres 1914 '15, Frezenberg, Loos, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1914-18 The Second World War: Jebel Mazar, Syria 1941; also: Honorary Distinction: badge of the Royal Corps of Signals with year-dates "1942-45" and four scrolls: "North Africa", "Sicily", "Italy", "North-West Europe" 1. AO 55/1925 as amended by AO 267/1925.

Colours, Standards and Guidons

Introduction to Colours


	Record of Colours:

Uniforms and Badges

Badges:

Uniform:

Honorary Colonels

Index of Royal Colonels


	Commandant:

	1843.08.09	Col. William Miles, JP, DL, MP
	1867.02.01	Lt-Col. (Hon. Col.) Rt. Hon. Richard Edmund St Lawrence (Boyle), 9th Earl of Cork and 9th Earl of Orrery, KP, ADC
	Honorary Colonel:
	1893.05.27	Lt-Col. (Hon. Col.) Rt. Hon. Richard Edmund St Lawrence (Boyle), 9th Earl of Cork and 9th Earl of Orrery, KP, ADC
	1904.10.15	F.M. Sir Frederick Sleigh (Roberts), Bt., 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar and Pretoria and the City of Waterford, VC, KG, KP, PC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE [also Col. Cmdt. RA; Hon. Col. 3rd Bn Loyal Rgt, 1st Newcastle RGA; QMG India 1875-78, C-in-C Madras, C-in-C India, C-in-C Ireland, C-in-C South Africa, C-in-C]
	<1920>	vacant
		Lt-Gen. Sir D. G. M. Campbell, KCB
	1927.11.23	Hon. Brig-Gen. Edward Hamilton (Seymour), 16th Duke of Somerset, KBE, CB, CMG
	1938.06.03	Col. Huntley Gordon Spencer, TD, DL
	1949.02.02	F.M. The Rt Hon Allan Francis John (Harding), 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (Sir John Harding), GCB, CBE, DSO, MC [also Col. Life Gds, Somerset LI; CIGS; Gov. & C-in-C Cyprus 1955-57]

Traditions


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Bibliography

How To Find Books


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	Special Topics:
		Barlow, L. ; Smith, R. J. (Robert Jeffrey) ; Marrion, R. J. (Robert John). North Somerset Yeomanry. [Aldershot] : Robert Ogilby Trust with the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, 1980. (Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force 1794-1914 ; 2) ISBN: 0859362493