yeomanry

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yeomanry

1. yeomen collectively

2. (in Britain) a volunteer cavalry force, organized in 1761 for home defence: merged into the Territorial Army in 1907

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They would never have me, a branded jailbird, in the Imperial Yeomanry! Raffles burst out laughing; he had been looking very hard at me for about three seconds.

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Hunt went peacefully but the yeomanry - volunteer soldiers - went on to attack and seize the flags and banners people were carrying.

Olivia's Peterloo anniversary honour

On June 12, the Staffordshire Yeomanry was ordered to relieve the East Riding Yeomanry around the town of Cambes for three days, and made contact with the Canadian forces on their right flank.

OUR TANK HEROES KEPT UP THE FIGHT IN CRUCIAL WEEKS FOLLOWING D-DAY; Historians RICHARD PURSEHOUSE and BEN CUNLIFFE recently revealed the key role played by the Staffordshire Yeomanry on D-Day but, as they report, it didn't end there

A yeomanry spokesman said: "A giant of a man, he had previously served for a full career with our paired regular regiment, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, and had been tested across the spectrum of conflict from the Balkans to Iraq, and never been found wanting."

Soldiers pay tribute to military legend Jock; Staff sergeant dies after training exercise crash

As the Yeomanry made their way to the hustings, the crowd linked arms to prevent them making arrests.

The Peterloo massacre... and how is still resonates today; The first trailer for the much anticipated Mike Leigh film about the Peterloo massacre caused a stir this week. MIKE KELLY looks at its North East links and its relevance to today

The battalion was mounted and part of the Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line Regiment, along with other Yeomanry battalions and the Imperial Camel Corps.

Story of Samuel Tongue, also killed on Leasowe Castle; LETTERS

The Yeomanry was a celebrated and somewhat maverick group of women that worked close to the front line in Belgium and France.

Women first aiders close to front line in maverick yeomanry; Colourfully dubbed "neither fish nor fowl but damn fine red herring", the First Aid Military Yeomanry could be described today as both revolutionary and maverick. Here, historians Tony Peters and Roy Dowell tell the story of Cardiff's very own yeomanry heroine - Elsie Agnes Courtis

A 74th (Dublin) Company Imperial Yeomanry Boer War slouch hat badge with rosette and buttons, will be sold with a fragment of what is claimed to be the first Union Flag to be hoisted in the Orange Free State; shell splinters and bullets kept as souvenirs of the battle of Colenso (1899); a model pick-axe made by a railway pioneer with metal from a ruined bridge at Norval's Point, the scene of bloody fighting between the British and the Boers and a South Africa 1900 Christmas present tin complete with original chocolates.

BADGES OF HONOUR

unites the collections of the antecedent regiments of The Light Dragoons and also tells the continuing story of the Northumberland Hussars since becoming the Command & Support squadron of the Queen's Own Yeomanry.

Charge! at Discovery Museum

In 1916, officered by well-known members of the landed gentry, two of the Welsh Yeomanry regiments, the Pembroke Yeomanry and the Glamorgan Yeomanry, were amongst many who embarked for foreign service for the first time ever in their history.

Welsh Yeomanry at War

Among these soldiers were members of the Worcestershire Yeomanry, the 8th Worcestershires and the 2nd Royal Warwickshires.

Remembering unsung heroes of Dunkirk; LETTERS Get in touch - tell us what you think Email: letters@coventrytelegraph.net Twitter: @coventrytelegraph Facebook: facebook.com/coventrytelegraph Post: Coventry Telegraph, Leicester Row, Canal Basin, Coventry, CV1 4LY

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry or FANY, as it was invariably and affectionately called, is not generally perceived in the same light as the far better known Special Operations Executive.