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	YEOMANRY - LoveToKnow Article on YEOMANRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although the yeomanry was created in 1761, it was not organized until 1794.
		But an amending act was soon passed, by which yeomanry cavalry could be substituted for provisional cavalry in the county quota.
		In 1901 the yeomanry, now all styled Imperial, was remodelled; and the strength of regiments was equalized on a four-squadron basis.
	20.1911encyclopedia.org /Y/YE/YEOMANRY.htm (608 words)

	Imperial Yeomanry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Imperial Yeomanry was created on December 24, 1899 — most units being raised during 1900 and 1901 — to allow volunteer cavalry troops to fight as mounted infantry alongside regular troops of the British Army in the Second Boer War as, at that time, Yeomanry regiments had no obligation to fight overseas.
		Unusually for cavalry regiments and emphasising its mounted infantry role, the Imperial Yeomanry was not organised into Squadrons but Battalions and Companies, the latter of 115 men.
		A total of 39 battalions and 3 companies were raised under the Imperial Yeomanry; it was formally disbanded on April 1, 1908 but had not fought since the war ended on May 31, 1902 finally leaving South Africa in 1903.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Yeomanry (208 words)

	Life in the Imperium
		By Imperial decree, the areas affected by the chaosgates were unified, to slow the otherworldly onslaught, into the Imperial territories on the Borderlands.
		Knights Justicier, or Doomgivers, are the Imperial arbiters.
		The Yeomanry, are the citizens of the Imperium.
	www.imperiumlarp.org /www/Guidebook/chap3.htm (4702 words)

	[No title]
		This is intended to be a brief history of the Glamorgan Yeomanry and covers the period from the raising of the first volunteer forces in 1797 to the establishment of the Territorial Force in March 1908.
		The Fairwood Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, raised in 1798 by Sir Gabriel Powell, like the Swansea Cavalry, was allowed to remain in being despite the end of the war in 1802 and continued as in being as an independant force under the command of Sir Gabriel Powell.throughout the period 1802 - 1813.
		On 4 June the Central Glamorgan Yeomanry arrived at Merthyr to provide further reinforcement, followed on 6 June by the Swansea and Fairwood Yeomanry (after a disasterous incident in which a detachment of the troop was disarmed by the rioters).
	www.angelfire.com /ga/BobSanders/YEOMANRY.html (1993 words)

	Yeomanry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While this was certainly true in most cases it was also the fact that the new regiments were sometimes used to in support of the civil authority to suppress civil unrest — so their equipping and maintainance by local landowners may not have been entirely altruistic in post-revolutionary, but pre-police, England.
		Today, in the modern Territorial Army, there are many of the old Yeomanry regiments serving in one form or another, usually as a squadron/battery that is part of a larger regiment:
		Most of the old yeomanry regiments are perpetuated through a single unit, be it an armoured, engineers or signal squadron, or an artillery battery.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Yeomanry (240 words)

	History of Airdrie 1850 - 1920
		In 1852 the regiment was renamed the "Lanarkshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry".
		On the reorganisation of the Yeomanry in 1901 the regiment was designated the Lanarkshire Imperial Yeomanry.
		At the beginning of 1917, the Lanarkshire Yeomanry and Ayrshire Yeomanry were amalgamated to form the 12th (Ayr and Lanark Yeomanry) Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
	www.airdrie.net /acthist3a.htm (808 words)

	Imperial Yeomanry
		The Yeomanry Cavalry came to the front during the Boer War and from a strength of 10,000 over 3,000 went to South Africa to form the Imperial Yeomanry and were used as mounted rifles.
		The Wiltshire Yeomanry have as their motto “Primus in armis,” signifying that they were the first local body of cavalry, chiefly drawn from the class of yeomanry, to be formed into a regiment.
		Companies of Imperial Yeomanry, which were the first to be ready, though for some reason they were not the first despatched.
	www.regimental-art.com /yeomanry_territorial.htm (2282 words)

	The Ayrshire Yeomanry (Earl of Carrick's Own)
		In 1793 the 12th Earl of Cassillis formed, among the local farmers and townsmen, a troop of yeomanry known as "The Earl of Carrick's Own Yeomanry" in honour of their royal feudal superior, the Earl of Carrick and heir to the Crown.
		This gave rise to the Ayrshire Yeomanry who saw service with their horses in many campaigns until they were finally dismounted during the first World War and attached to the County Regiment as foot soldiers.
		During the South African War of 1899-1902, the volunteers from the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire Yeomanries served in the campaign as the 17th Company of the 6th (Scottish) Battalion of Imperial Yeomanry.
	www.maybole.org /PhotoGallery/ayrshireyeomanry.htm (340 words)

	265 (Kent & County of London Yeomanry) Signal Squadron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The 3rd County of Imperial Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) were raised in 1900 for the Boer War.
		The Kent Yeomanry Regiments became one at the start of World War I and served with the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) at Gallipoli and at the capture of Jerusalem.
		In 1961 the Kent Yeomanry and the 3/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) amalgamated as an armoured recce regiment.
	www.reserve-forces-london.org.uk /Units/91361/history.htm (237 words)

	Re: XX Corps & Yeomanry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As for the Yeomanry - it depends which one unit you refer to - generally Yeomanry were mounted units, riding horses (or camels) and armed with a gun, a few of the British units were armed with a sword too.
		At Gallipoli many Yeomanry units were dismounted 1915 and stayed that way for the campaign in Egypt/Sinai/Palastine.
		infantry and between Beersheba and the coast the Yeomanry Division, comprising mounted yeomanry brigades, similar to the ALH Brigades.
	www.lighthorse.org.au /LighthorseDiscussionBoard/_disc1/00000849.htm (135 words)

	Short History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Essex Imperial Yeomanry was raised by Lt Col Colvin in November 1902 with head quarters at Colchester and Squadrons at Colchester (A), Halstead (B), Epping (C) and Southend (D).
		The Essex Yeomanry survived and on the doubling of the Territorial Army in April 1939, its second regiment, 147, was one of the first in the country to complete to establishment.
		The Essex Yeomanry was reraised on 1st June 1947 as 304th (EY) Field Regiment RA with HQ at Chelmsford and batteries at Colchester (P), Southend (Q), and Harlow (R).
	www.essex-yeomanry.org.uk /history/shorthistory.htm (1494 words)

	47958 Company Quartermaster Sergeant Herbert Dickinson, Royal Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although Doyle’s description of the Imperial Yeomanry is rather chauvinistic, nevertheless, this is the unit that Dickinson joined to fight the Boers in South Africa.
		According to his Imperial Yeomanry Attestation papers, Herbert Dickinson claimed that he was born in the Parish of Middlesbro, in the County of Yorkshire.
		Since the Imperial Yeomanry was a mounted unit, he also had very little time to learn to ride, unless he was an experienced horseman at the time he enlisted.
	members.aol.com /reubique/47958.htm (2992 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The birth of the Imperial Yeomanry was through a Royal Warrant dated the 24th of December 1899 and from
		Yeomanry were to be raised on a county basis with the core being the men of the existing volunteer units, the remainder of the
		The second contingent or ‘new’ yeomanry were a totally different force from that of the original.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /kevinasplin/IYhistory.html (3565 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales' Own)
		The response throughout the country was immediate, and the offices of the Imperial Yeomanry Committee in London were besieged by crowds of candidates.
		It was a pity that all Yeomanry regiments were not able to have a full complement of their own horses which were thoroughly trained and fit.
		There was keen competition among the Imperial Yeomanry regiments to get early embarkation dates and, as the Royal Wiltshires had been first in the field, it was expected that they would leave early, but the two troopships, Afric and Goth, both named as reserved for the First Imperial Yeomanry, sailed with other corps.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol021db.html (5506 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- Letter Box
		It was at Deelfontein that the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital was situated during the South African War.
		The walls of the lounge and private lounge are covered with rather beautiful murals, obviously painted by members of the Imperial Yeomanry Staff during the period that they were stationed there.
		I am particularly interested because my late father-in-law, Donald Munro, was a doctor at Deelfontein, with the Imperial Yeomanry and remained in South Africa after the war as a GP at Steynsburg where he died in 1949.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol035lb.html (795 words)

	70 (EY) Sig Sqn
		It was in 1901 that he raised the Essex Imperial Yeomanry as a fullscale Regiment with four Squadrons.
		In 1939 the Territorial Army was doubled and a second Essex Yeomanry Regiment was formed as the 147th (Essex Yeomanry) Regiment RHA, later to be re-designated as Field Regiment Royal Artillery.
		In 1942 an Essex Yeomanry Battery from 104th Regiment RHA was sent to Burma with the 7th Armoured Brigade to cover the withdrawal from Rangoon to Imphal.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/1503/70sigsqn.html (1004 words)

	Somerset Military Museum - North Somerset Yeomanry
		In 1817 it was renamed the North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry.
		Revived after the Armistice, the North Somerset Yeomanry survived a threat of conversion to Artillery and started life as a Mounted Regiment in 1922, under Lt Col K G Spencer, and was trained as such until war broke out in 1939.
		However, elements from the North Somerset Yeomanry and the West Somerset Yeomanry combined with the Somerset Light Infantry to form the Somerset Yeomanry and Light Infantry, which in 1971 became the 6th Battalion The Light Infantry (Volunteers).
	www.sommilmuseum.org.uk /article.php?id=4 (869 words)

	Imperial Yeomanry [UK]
		The Imperial Yeomanry of the South African War, which operated as mounted infantry, should not be confused with the 28 battalions of Mounted Infantry
		The Men of the Imperial Yeomanry, Lovats Scouts and Scottish Horse in the Boer War of 1899 to 1902, by Kevin Asplin
		The Roll of the Imperial Yeomanry, Scottish Horse and Lovats Scouts, 2nd Boer war 1899-1902, being an alphabetical listing of 39,800 men of these volunteer forces who enlisted for the 2nd Boer war, lisitng regimental details, clasps to Queens South Africa medal and casualty status.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/cav/ImpYeo.htm (1015 words)

	C (KSY) Squadron - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Yeomanry in Kent were formed in 1794, originally as a series of independent troops based in the important towns of Kent but these were later formed into two regiments, the East Kent Yeomanry and the West Kent Yeomanry.
		In 1961 the Kent Yeomanry was amalgamated with the Sharpshooters to form a reconnaissance regiment.
		Six years later the Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) was reduced to squadron strength to form C Squadron of the Royal Yeomanry.
	www.army.mod.uk /royalyeomanry/c_history.htm (314 words)

	AUXENTIUS OF CAPPADOCIA - LoveToKnow Article on AUXENTIUS OF CAPPADOCIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Auximum became a colony at latest in 157 B.C. It often appears in the history of the civil wars, owing to its strong position.
		Pompey was its patron, and intended that Caesar should find resistance here in 49 B.C. I~ appears to have been a place of some importance in imperial times, as inscriptions and the monuments of its forum (the present piazza) show.
		In the 6th century it is called by Procopius the chief town of Picenum, Ancona being spoken of as its harbour.
	64.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AU/AUXENTIUS_OF_CAPPADOCIA.htm (1468 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- DEELFONTEIN
		An Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Committee, under the chairmanship of the above-named ladies, was soon established, and began to function in early January 1900.
		The Yeomanry Hospital opened in August 1900, and ceased to be under the control of the Yeomanry authorities from October 1901 when it became the No.22 General Hospital.
		A convalescent home for Yeomanry offices was established in Johannesburg in March 1901 and remained open until October of that year when use of the building reverted to its owner.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol074sa.html (2829 words)

	Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
		In 1899, the Imperial Yeomanry was formed in response to the rise of the Boers in South Africa - The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (PWO) providing three companies for its 1st Regiment.
		At the end of 1941 the regiment was re-roled as an armoured regiment in 9 Armoured Brigade under the command of 2 New Zealand Division.
		With the raising of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in 1970 B Squadron was designated a Wiltshire Yeomanry Squadron.
	www.steam-museum.org.uk /heritage/heritage-yeomanry.htm (702 words)

	B (LDY) Squadron - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Leicestershire Yeomanry were formed at the Three Crowns Inn, Leicester on 1 0th April 1794 to meet the threat of a French invasion.
		In true Yeomanry spirit, the Regiment throughout their tour years in France, hunted (they bought two and a half couple of hounds from the Quorn) and even held a point-to-point meeting.
		The Derbyshire Yeomanry was first formed as the Derbyshire Regiment of Fencible Cavalry on 22 October 1794, again being raised to meet a threatened French invasion.
	www.army.mod.uk /royalyeomanry/b_history.htm (494 words)

	imperial yeomanry : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A British volunteer cavalry force, growing out of a royal regiment of fox hunters raised by Yorkshire gentlemen in 1745 to fight the Pretender, Charles Edward; -- calle dalso yeomanry cavalry.
		The members furnish their own horses, have fourteen days' annual camp training, and receive pay and allowance when on duty.
		In 1901 the name was altered to imperial yeomanry in recognition of the services of the force in the Boer war.
	onlinedictionary.datasegment.com /word/imperial+yeomanry (127 words)

	Somerset Military Museum - West Somerset Yeomanry
		At squadron strength the Regiment, as a part of the 7th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, sailed for the Cape in March 1900.
		The Regiment was reformed in 1920 as a Gunner Brigade.
		Elements of the Regiment, however, along with elements of the North Somerset Yeomanry, combined with the Somerset Light Infantry to form the Somerset Yeomanry and Light Infantry, which in 1971 became the 6th Battalion The Light Infantry (Volunteers).
	www.sommilmuseum.org.uk /article.php?id=3 (419 words)

	The Imperium
		Because the Grand Crusade forces the Imperator to move constantly, he rules through his Imperial Representatives: The Knights Imperica, the Order of the Dove and the Grafs.
		The current Imperial Calendar begins with the creation of the first chaosgate into the Borderlands.
		Imperial Representatives (Grafs, Doves and the Imperial Knights)
	www.imperiumlarp.org /www/Tour/imperium.htm (553 words)

	Scottish Military Historical Society - Yeomanry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The history of yeomanry regiments in both Fife and Forfar dates from the end of the 18th century.
		In 1901 the regiment became the Fife and Forfar Imperial Yeomanry.
		The "Imperial" was dropped from the title on the formation of the Territorial Force or (TF) in 1908.
	www.btinternet.com /~james.mckay/yeoman04.htm (331 words)

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