Precedence is the order in which the various corps of the

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parade, from right to left, with the unit at the extreme right being highest.

Precedence

The

has frequently been the subject of amalgamation and re-organisation throughout its history. The general rule for establishing the order of precedence is the date of creation of the regiment and its subsequent unbroken service. Disbanded regiments automatically lost precedence. Since 1994 two orders of precedence used parochially and unofficially within the Yeomanry; the Army List of 1914 and the Order of Yeomanry Titles on parade at The Royal Yeomanry Review. Irrespective of this, official precedence within the Army is set out in Queen's Regulations.

Order of precedence from the Army List of 1914

The first is a list of yeomanry units on the establishment at the outbreak of the

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and therefore contains units that had been disbanded by the time of The Royal Yeomanry Review. This first list does not contain the North Irish, South Irish or King Edward's Horse who were on the Special Reserve at this time. The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry do not appear as they are not part of the British Army or its reserve. # Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry # Warwickshire Yeomanry # Yorkshire Hussars # Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) # Staffordshire Yeomanry # Shropshire Yeomanry # Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry # Cheshire Yeomanry # Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons # Leicestershire Yeomanry #

North Somerset Yeomanry The North Somerset Yeomanry was a part-time cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1798 to 1967. It maintained order in Somerset in the days before organised police forces, and supplied volunteers to fight in the Second Boer War. It served on ...

# Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry # Lanarkshire Yeomanry # Northumberland Hussars # South Nottinghamshire Hussars # Denbighshire Hussars # Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry # Pembroke Yeomanry #

Royal East Kent Yeomanry The Royal East Kent Yeomanry was a British Army regiment formed in 1794. It saw action in the Second Boer War and the First World War. History Formation and early history The regiment was formed in 1794, originally as a series of independent t ...

# Hampshire Yeomanry # Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry # Derbyshire Yeomanry #

Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry The Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army founded in 1794 as the Dorsetshire Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry in response to the growing threat of invasion during the Napoleonic wars. It gained its first ro ...

# Royal Gloucestershire Hussars # Hertfordshire Yeomanry #

Berkshire Yeomanry The Berkshire Yeomanry was a part time regiment of the British Army formed in 1794 to counter the threat of invasion during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was the Royal County of Berkshire's senior volunteer unit with over 200 years of volunta ...

# 1st County of London (Middlesex Hussars) # Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry # Suffolk Yeomanry (Duke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars) # Royal North Devon Yeomanry #

Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. First raised in 1794, it participated in the Second Boer War and World War I as horsed cavalry before being converted to an anti-tank regiment of the Royal Artil ...

Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry The Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry was a British Army regiment formed in 1794. It served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. It amalgamated with the Royal East Kent (The Duke of Connaught's Own) Yeomanry (Mounted Rifles) to form the ...

# West Somerset Yeomanry # Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars # Montgomeryshire Yeomanry #

Lothians and Border Horse The Lothians and Border Horse was a Yeomanry regiment, part of the British Territorial Army. It was ranked 36th in the Yeomanry order of precedence and was based in the Scottish Lowland area, recruiting in the Lothians – East Lothian (Hadd ...

Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army that can trace their formation back to 1796. It saw action in the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War. It amalgamated with the Lanarkshir ...

# Lancashire Hussars #

Surrey Yeomanry The Surrey Yeomanry was a unit of the British Army first formed as volunteer cavalry in 1794. It was reformed in 1901 and saw varied srvice in World War I. Postwar it was converted to artillery and during World War II one of its regiments disti ...

Fife and Forfar Yeomanry The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (FFY) was an Armoured Yeomanry Regiment of the British Army formed in 1793. It saw action in the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War. It amalgamated with the Scottish Horse to form the Fif ...

Norfolk Yeomanry The Norfolk Yeomanry was a volunteer cavalry ( Yeomanry) regiment of Britain's Territorial Army accepted onto the establishment of the British Army in 1794. After seeing action in the Second Boer War, it served dismounted at Gallipoli, in Pale ...

Sussex Yeomanry The Sussex Yeomanry is a yeomanry regiment of the British Army dating from 1794. It was initially formed when there was a threat of French invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. After being reformed in the Second Boer War, it served in the First Wo ...

# Glamorgan Yeomanry # Welsh Horse # Lincolnshire Yeomanry # City of London (Rough Riders) # 2nd County of London (Westminster Dragoons) # 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) # Bedfordshire Yeomanry #

Essex Yeomanry The Essex Yeomanry was a Reserve unit of the British Army that originated in 1797 as local Yeomanry Cavalry Troops in Essex. Reformed after the experience gained in the Second Boer War, it saw active service as cavalry in World War I and a ...

# Northamptonshire Yeomanry # East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry # 1st Lovat's Scouts (sic) # 2nd Lovat's Scouts (sic) # Scottish Horse

Order of Yeomanry titles on parade

The second order of precedence represents units that were on the establishment of the Territorial Army at the time of the review. Order of precedence in this instance includes the current role of the unit, placing Armoured Corps before Artillery and so on. Since the review, several units and sub-units have changed role and corps or been disbanded. The approach taken at The Royal Yeomanry Review can be summarised as follows: *Units are ordered in accordance with

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*Sub-Units are ordered in accordance with the ''Army List'' of 1914, as amended by any subsequent disbandments, amalgamations etc. The following is taken from the last page of the programme printed for The Royal Yeomanry Review. As on that day, the list below has been divided into blocks corresponding to the order in which the units formed and grouped. * The Royal Yeomanry : Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry : Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry (PAO) :

Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry The Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry was a unit of the Territorial Army ('TA') that was formed in 1961 as the Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) by the amalgamation of 297 (Kent Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Artillery and 3rd/4th Cou ...

: Inns of Court & City Yeomanry :

Westminster Dragoons The Westminster Dragoons (WDs) was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army Army Reserve, located in central London. Its lineage is continued by one of the Royal Yeomanry's six squadrons. Formed in the aftermath of Second Boer War as part of th ...

* The Royal Wessex Yeomanry :

: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry : Royal Gloucestershire Hussars :

Royal Devon Yeomanry The Royal Devon Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1920. It participated in the Second World War and now forms a squadron of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry. History Formation Following the experience of the First World Wa ...

* The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry : Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry : Queen's Own Staffordshire Yeomanry : Shropshire Yeomanry : Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry * The Queen's Own Yeomanry : Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry :

Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (SRY) was a British Yeomanry regiment. In 1967 it was amalgamated with other units to form the Royal Yeomanry (RY), a light cavalry regiment of the Army Reserve. Originally raised as the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Ca ...

: Cheshire Yeomanry : Northumberland Hussars * The

Scottish Yeomanry The Scottish Yeomanry (SCOTS YEO) was a Yeomanry Regiment of the British Territorial Army formed in 1992. It was disbanded in 1999. History The Scottish Yeomanry was raised on 1 November 1992 as a result of Options for Change with headquarters at ...

: Earl of Carrick's Own Ayrshire Yeomanry :

Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse The Fife & Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse is unit of the British Army regiment formed in 1956. Originally a regiment in its own right, it is currently a Yeomanry Squadron of the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry. History The regiment was form ...

* North Irish Horse * Bedfordshire Yeomanry * Hertfordshire Yeomanry * Suffolk Yeomanry (Duke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars) * King's Own Royal Norfolk Yeomanry * Glamorgan Yeomanry *

* Hampshire Yeomanry * Duke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex Yeomanry * Cheshire Yeomanry * Shropshire Yeomanry * Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry *

* Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars * Inns of Court & City Yeomanry *

* Kent and County of London Yeomanry *

Lovat Scouts The Lovat Scouts was a British Army unit first formed during the Second Boer War as a Scottish Highland yeomanry regiment of the British Army. They were the first known military unit to wear a ghillie suit and in 1916 formally became the British ...

* Pembrokeshire (Castlemartin) Yeomanry * First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (not an army unit)

Notes

# Units on the Special Reserve take precedence after a Regular Unit and before a Yeomanry Unit. # The Welsh Horse was only raised after the outbreak of war in 1914. It was accorded precedence after its parent, the Glamorgan Yeomanry. # The Scottish Horse was two regiments strong in peacetime, with a third regiment formed in August 1914. # A Sqn Royal Yeomanry # Band of the Royal Yeomanry # B Sqn Royal Wessex Yeomanry # A and HQ Sqns Royal Wessex Yeomanry # A Sqn Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry # HQ Sqn Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry # C Sqn Queen's Own Yeomanry # 80 Sig Sqn (V), 33 Sig Regt (V) # 95 Sig Sqn (V), 35 Sig Regt (V) # 67 Sig Sqn (V), 37 Sig Regt (V) # 68 Sig Sqn (V), 71 Sig Regt (V)

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