The Cheshire Yeomanry was a

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that can trace its history back to 1797 when Sir John Leicester of Tabley raised a county regiment of light cavalry in response to the growing fears of invasion from

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ic France. Its lineage is maintained by C (Cheshire Yeomanry) Squadron, the

Queen's Own Yeomanry The Queen's Own Yeomanry (QOY) is a reserve light cavalry reconnaissance regiment of the British Army. The regiment is part of the 19th Brigade, which was reactivated in 2022. The regimental headquarters is at Fenham Barracks, Newcastle, with sq ...

History

Formation and early history

The regiment was founded in 1797 when Sir John Leicester of Tabley raised a county regiment of light cavalry in response to the growing fears of invasion from

ic France. In 1803, the

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(later

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) gave his permission for the regiment to wear his triple feather crest, a badge that Cheshire Yeoman still wear today.

Peterloo Massacre

The

Peterloo Massacre The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819. Eighteen people died and 400–700 were injured when the cavalry of the Yeomen charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who ...

of 16 August 1819 was the result of a cavalry charge into the crowd at a public meeting at Saint Peters Field, in

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, England. Eleven people were killed and more than 400, including many women and children, injured. Local magistrates arranged for a substantial number of regular soldiers to be on hand. The troops included 600 men of the 15th Hussars; several hundred infantrymen; a

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unit with two six-pounder (2.7 kg) guns; 400 men of the Cheshire Yeomanry, 400 special constables and 120 cavalry of the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry, relatively inexperienced militia recruited from among shopkeepers and tradesmen.

Second Boer War

The Yeomanry was not intended to serve overseas, but due to the string of defeats during Black Week in December 1899, the British government realized they were going to need more troops than just the regular army. A Royal Warrant was issued on 24 December 1899 to allow volunteer forces to serve in the

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. The Royal Warrant asked standing Yeomanry

s to provide service

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of approximately 115 men each for the

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(IY), equipped as

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. The regiment provided the 21st (Cheshire) and 22nd (Cheshire) Companies for the 2nd Battalion, IY, in 1900. The mounted infantry experiment was considered a success and the existing yomenary regiments were converted to IY in 1901, the regiment becoming Cheshire Imperial Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's); the word 'Imperial' was dropped in 1908 when the yeomanry were transferred to the

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(TF). The regiment had its headquarters at Old Bank Buildings in Foregate Street at this time.

First World War

In accordance with the

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('' 7 Edw. 7, c.9'') which brought the

into being, the TF was intended to be a home defence force for service during wartime and members could not be compelled to serve outside the country. However, on the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914, many members volunteered for Imperial Service. Therefore, TF units were split in August and September 1914 into 1st Line (liable for overseas service) and 2nd Line (home service for those unable or unwilling to serve overseas) units. Later, a 3rd Line was formed to act as a reserve, providing trained replacements for the 1st and 2nd Line regiments.

1/1st Cheshire Yeomanry

The 1/1st Cheshire Yeomanry was mobilised with the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade on 4 August 1914 at the outbreak of the

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. It moved to

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, where it joined the

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in September 1914. In November 1915, the brigade was dismounted. The regiment was posted with the brigade to Egypt in March 1916. On 20 March, the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade was absorbed into the 4th Dismounted Brigade (along with the

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). The brigade was with the Suez Canal Defences when, on 14 January 1917,

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(EEF) Order No. 26 instructed that the

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, 3rd and 4th Dismounted Brigades be reorganized as the 229th, 230th and 231st Brigades. Between January and March 1917 the small Yeomanry regiments were amalgamated and numbered as battalions of infantry regiments recruiting from the same districts. As a result, the 1/1st Cheshire Yeomanry was amalgamated with the 1/1st Shropshire Yeomanry at

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on 2 March 1917 to form the ''10th (Shropshire and Cheshire Yeomanry) Battalion,

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'' (10th KSLI). On 23 February, the

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the EEF,

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Sir A.J. Murray, sought permission from the

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to form the 229th, 230th and 231st Brigades into a new division. On 25 February, the War Office granted permission and the new

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started to form. The 231st Brigade joined the division at

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by 9 March. The 10th KSLI remained with 231st Brigade in 74th (Yeomanry) Division for the rest of the war. It took part in the invasion of Palestine in 1917 and 1918, including the

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(17–19 April 1917) and Third Battles of Gaza (27 October–7 November)including the capture of

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on 31 October and the Sheria Position on 6 November. At the end of 1917, it took part in the capture and defence of

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and in March 1918 in the Battle of Tell 'Asur. On 3 April 1918, the division was warned that it would move to France and by 30 April 1918 had completed embarkation at Alexandria. In May 1918, the battalion landed at

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with 74th (Yeomanry) Division. It served in France and Flanders with the division for the rest of the war. By 18 May, the division had concentrated around

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in the

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area. Here, the dismounted Yeomanry underwent training for service on the Western Front, particularly

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and gas defence. On 14 July 1918, the Yeomanry Division went into the line for the first time, near Merville on the right of XI Corps. From September 1918, as part of III Corps of Fourth Army, it took part in the

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including the Second Battle of the Somme (

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) and the Battles of the

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( Battle of Épehy). In October and November 1918, it took part in the Final Advance in Artois and Flanders. By the

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, it was near

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, still with 74th (Yeomanry) Division. With the end of the war, the troops of 74th Division were engaged in railway repair work and education was undertaken while demobilisation began. The division and its subformations were disbanded on 10 July 1919.

2/1st Cheshire Yeomanry

The 2nd Line regiment was formed in 1914. It joined the 2/1st Welsh Border Mounted Brigade in the

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area of

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in January 1915 (along with the 2/1st Shropshire Yeomanry and the 2/1st Denbighshire Hussars). The brigade was placed under the command of the 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division. On 31 March 1916, the remaining Mounted Brigades were ordered to be numbered in a single sequence and the brigade became 17th Mounted Brigade, still in Northumberland under Northern Command. In April 1916, it moved with its brigade to

where it joined the

; it replaced its 1st Line which had departed (dismounted) for Egypt. By July, it had left with its brigade for the

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area. In July 1916, there was a major reorganization of 2nd Line yeomanry units in the United Kingdom. All but 12 regiments were converted to cyclists and as a consequence the regiment was dismounted and the brigade converted to 10th Cyclist Brigade. Further reorganization in October and November 1916 saw the brigade redesignated as 6th Cyclist Brigade in November, still in the Morpeth area. In July 1917, the regiment moved to

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. Early in 1918, the brigade moved to Ireland and was stationed at

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. There were no further changes before the end of the war.

3/1st Cheshire Yeomanry

The 3rd Line regiment was formed in 1915 and in the summer was affiliated to a Reserve Cavalry Regiment at

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. In the summer of 1916, it was attached to the 3rd Line Groups of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division as its 1st Line was serving as infantry. The regiment was disbanded in early 1917 with personnel transferring to the 2nd Line or to the 4th (Reserve) Battalion of the

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Between the wars

Post war, a commission was set up to consider the shape of the Territorial Force ( Territorial Army from 1 October 1921). The experience of the First World War made it clear that

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was surfeit. The commission decided that only the 14 most senior regiments were to be retained as cavalry (though the

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and the

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were also to remain mounted as "scouts"). Eight regiments were converted to Armoured Car Companies of the Royal Tank Corps (RTC), one was reduced to a battery in another regiment, one was absorbed into a local infantry battalion, one became a signals regiment and two were disbanded. The remaining 25 regiments were converted to brigades of the

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between 1920 and 1922. As the 8th most senior regiment in the

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, the regiment was retained as horsed cavalry.

Second World War

During the Second World War, the regiment was part of the 6th Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division and remained mounted until 1942, seeing action in

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and the

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. As one of the last regiments of the British Army to fight on horseback, the Cheshire Yeomanry found it particularly painful to lose its mounts and to re-role as a Signals Regiment, when its title changed in 1942 to the 5th Line of Communications Signals Regiment. After leaving the Middle East, the regiment was redesignated the 17th Line of Communication Signals Regiment (Cheshire Yeomanry) for service in North-West Europe.

Post war

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1947, the Cheshire Yeomanry reformed as an armoured regiment, equipped with Cromwell and

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tanks. It continued as such until 1958, when it re-equipped with Daimler Armoured Cars. The defence re-organisation of 1967 led to the disbanding of the regiment except for a small cadre, but in 1971 the

(QOY) was formed from four old yeomanry regiments, including the Cheshire Yeomanry. This lasted until 1999, when the regiment, as part of the Strategic Defence Review, was amalgamated into the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry.

The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

The RMLY's mission was to provide

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(CR2) War Establishment Reserves (WER) to the Regular Army. To fulfil this commitment, the RMLY soldiers trained as Challenger 2 loaders and gunners. In 2014 C (Cheshire Yeomanry) Squadron, which is based in

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, re-joined the

33 (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment

A second squadron continues in service as 80th (Cheshire Yeomanry) Signal Squadron (V), part of 33 Signal Regiment,

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Regimental museum

The

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is based at

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Battle honours

The Cheshire Yeomanry was awarded the following

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s (honours in bold are emblazoned on the

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Uniforms

The full dress uniform of the Cheshire Yeomanry, worn prior to World War I, closely resembled that of the regular

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regiments of the British Army. Chest braiding and piping on the dark blue tunic was however white (rather than the yellow of regulars). In an unusual combination collar facings were red while overall (tight cavalry trousers) stripes were white. Peaked caps were normally worn although fur busbies were borrowed for the 1911 Coronation. The plain khaki service dress of the regular cavalry was worn from about 1907 onwards, replacing the blue uniform for nearly all occasions after 1914. The service dress was in turn replaced by battle dress, or other standard British Army uniforms, following the dismounting of the regiment in 1942.

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