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Montgomeryshire
Volunteer Legion
formed with three (later six) cavalry troops
and twenty infantry coys at Montgomery, Welshpool, Newtown and Albermule |
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Montgomeryshire
Yeomanry Cavalry
(volunteer infantry element disbanded) |
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troop
raised at Berriew |
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1819 |
troops
raised at Llangedwyn and Llanfyllin |
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1828.03 |
disbanded |
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1831.11.02 |
Montgomeryshire
Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry
four troops at Montgomery, Welshpool, Newtown
and Albermule |
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troop
raised at Llangedwyn |
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reduced
to four troops |
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Montgomeryshire
Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
troops raised at Llanfyllin and Caerws; HQ at Welshpool |
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1889 |
Caerws
troop disbanded |
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1893.04.01 |
troops
reorganised in three squadrons; HQ at Welshpool |
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1900. |
sponsored
31st and 49th Coys, 9th Bn, Imperial
Yeomanry |
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1901. |
sponsored
[new] 31st and 49th Coys, and 88th and 89th
Coys, 9th Bn, Imperial Yeomanry |
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1901.04.17 |
Montgomeryshire
Imperial Yeomanry
reorganised in four sqns and MG sec |
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- A Squadron
- B Squadron
- C Squadron
- D Squadron, raised at Rhayader
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1908.04.01 |
Montgomeryshire
Yeomanry
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Welshpool, trained
and equipped as dragoons |
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- A Squadron at Llanfyllin (dets at Meifod,
Llanrhaiadr, Llanfihangel, Llangedwyn, Trefonen, Llanfair, Llansaintffraid)
- B Squadron at Welshpool (dets at Guilsfield,
Castle Caerneinion, Four Crosses, Chirbury, Berriew, Trewern,
Forden)
- C Squadron at Newtown (dets at Church
Stoke, Caersws, New Mills, Llanbrynmair, Montgomery, Trefeglwys,
Bettws, Cemmaes Road, Dolfor, Llangurig)
- D Squadron at Llandrindod Wells (dets
at Llanidloes, Builth Wels, Rhayader, Llanbister, Knighton, Hay)
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1917.03.04 |
absorbed
Welsh Horse |
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1920.02.07 |
reconstituted
in T.A. with HQ at Welshpool |
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1920.03.03 |
absorbed as
two companies of 7th (Montgomeryshire)
Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, and yeomanry lineage
discontinued |
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History: |
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Montgomeryshire
Yeomanry, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War) |
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Montgomeryshire
Yeomanry, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) |
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Museums, Monuments,
Memorials and Chapels: |
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Powysland
Museum and Montgomery Canal Centre,Welshpool (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) |
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South Africa
1901
The Great War: Somme
1918, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Pursuit to Mons,
France and Flanders 1918, Egypt
1916-17, Gaza,
Jerusalem, Jericho,
Tell 'Asur, Palestine 1917-18
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1831-1920: scarlet (light dragoon uniform); lace:
silver (officers); horse furniture: black leather and black
sheepskin |
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Commandant: |
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1803 |
Rt. Hon. Charles Watkin Williams Wynn |
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1840.01.26 |
Lt-Col. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 6th
Bt., JP, MP, ADC |
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1877.07.18 |
Col. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 6th Bt.,
JP, MP, ADC |
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1885 |
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Commandant: |
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1889.02.09 |
Lt-Col. Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn,
7th Bt., CB, MP [also 7th
Bn R Welch Fusiliers] |
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1907.11.01 |
Hon. Col. Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn,
7th Bt., CB, MP [to 1920] |
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