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Page created 1 November 2000. Corrected and updated 19.06.2006
 
 
 The Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own)
 
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
1794.08.13 2nd or Northern Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry
five troops raised at Skipton, Knaresborough, Leeds, Wakefield and Tadcaster
1802.07.25

1st West Riding Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
reorganised at York with three troops (renumbered after disbandment of 1st Regt)
1802.10.09 four more troops raised
1803.05.18 eighth troop raised
1803.07 Northern Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry
1803.12 ninth troop raised
1819.01.11 Yorkshire Hussar Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
HQ at York
1863.12.25 Yorkshire Hussars (Princess of Wales's Own)
(named for Princess Alexandra)
1893.04.01 troops reorganised in squadrons
1898 Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own)
1900 sponsored 9th and 109th Coys, 3rd Bn, Imperial Yeomanry
1901 co-sponsored 66th Coy, 16th Bn, Imperial Yeomanry
1903.03.23 Yorkshire Hussars Imperial Yeomanry (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own)
reorganised in four sqns and MG sec
1908.04.01 Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own)
transferred to T.F. with HQ at York
 
  • A Squadron at Leeds (det at Ilkley)
  • B Squadron at York (dets at Bedale, Thirsk, Helmsley, Malton)
  • C Squadron at Knaresborough (dets at Harrogate, Bradford, Easingwold, Ripon)
  • D Squadron Middlesbrough (det at Scarborough)
1920.02.07 The Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at York
1941.04.12 transferred to Royal Armoured Corps
1947.01.01 The Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own)
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at York
 
  • A Squadron at Leeds
  • B Squadron at York
  • C Squadron at Middlesbrough
1956.11.01 amalgamated with The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons, and The East Riding Yeomanry, to form The Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry
 
     
  Associated Regular Regiments:
    Hussars 1908-1941
    8th King's Royal Irish Hussars 1947-1956
 
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
pip The Yorkshire Yeomanry - a Brief History (Army site)
pip The Yorkshire Hussars, construction sign by Paul Baker (History of the Hussars) [Internet Archive]
pip Yorkshire Hussars, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
pip Yorkshire Hussars, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
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Biography and Gallantry Awards:
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Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
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Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
monument Yorkshire Yeomanry Museum, York (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
monument York Castle Museum, York (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-02

The Great War:   Arras 1918, Scarpe 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai 1918, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1915-18

The Second World War:  [none]
  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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  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
  Commandant:
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1819.01.22 Lt-Col. Earl de Grey, KG
 
  Honorary Colonel:
1881.10.05 Hon. Col. William Henry Harrison-Broadley
1898.06.15 Col. HU, Earl of Harewood, KCVO, TD
1913.04.01 Col. WT, Lord Bolton, TD
1924.05.03 Hon. Col. Rt. Hon. G. R. (Lane-Fox), The Lord Bingley, MP, PC, TD
1946.05.01 Col. Thomas Preston, CBE, MC, TD, DL [to 1956]
  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography How To Find Books
  Regimental Journal:
  The Yorkshire Hussars magazine.
 
Short Histories:

Robertshaw, Wilfred. The Northern Regiment of West Riding Volunteer Cavalry, 1794-1804. Bradford : printed by Outhwaite Bros., 1931. [reprinted from The Bradford Antiquary, Part 23, p. 99-120; Part 24, p. 1-22]
A short history of the Yorkshire Hussars. In: The Yorkshire Hussars magazine, July 1929 to July 1939.
Second World War:
book Whiting, Charles ; Taylor, Eric. The fighting tykes : an informal history of the Yorkshire regiments in the Second World War. London : Leo Cooper, 1993. ISBN: 0850523575
Special Topics:
Smith, Henry Stooks. An alphabetical list of the officers of the Yorkshire Hussars, from the formation of the regiment to the present time. London : [s.n.], 1853.
Barlow, L. ; Smith, R. J. (Robert Jeffrey) ; Marrion, R. J. (Robert John). The Yorkshire Hussars. [Aldershot] : Robert Ogilby Trust, 1981. (The Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force, 1794-1914 ; 3) ISBN: 0859362507 (pbk)