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	Royal Wessex Yeomanry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HRH The Earl of Wessex inspects the Yeomanry
		The Royal Wessex Yeomanry currently serves two roles; the Dorset Yeomanry serves as an infrastructure and training squadron for the armour replacement role, while the other three squadrons are operational as armour replacements on the Challenger 2 tank.
		HRH Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, is the Royal Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Wessex_Yeomanry (131 words)

	Yeomanry
		A (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron at Swindon and Trowbridge.
		HQ (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron at Telford with detachment at Coventry.
		A (Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron at Stourbridge.
	www.win.tue.nl /~drenth/BritArmy/Lineage/YEOMANRY (2672 words)

	Wessex - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the kingdom of England.
		Wessex was, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC), founded by Cerdic and Cynric, although the specifics given by the ASC are considered to be suspect.
		Wessex groups are currently campaigning for boundary revisions to the regions in order to more closely match their definitions of Wessex.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Wessex (942 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC), Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, chieftains of a clan known as "Gewisse", although the specific events given by the ASC are considered to be suspect.
		Wessex expanded its boundaries and clashed with its neighbours, notably Celtic Dumnonia (essentially modern day Devon and Cornwall), which it eventually came to dominate, and with Mercia.
		Wessex culture - an archÃ¦ological label used anachronistically to describe a bronze age culture whose remains are found in the Wessex area
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Wessex (1007 words)

	Wessex - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Wessex Archaeology - An educational charity and the largest UK archaeological practice.
		Wessex culture - an archaeological label used anachronistically to describe a bronze age culture whose remains are found in the Wessex area
		In an unusual move, Prince Edward was made Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn in honour of his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones (styled as Countess of Wessex) in 1999.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wessex (990 words)

	Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		According to the '' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle '' (ASC), Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, chieftains of a clan known as "''Gewisse''", although the specific events given by the ASC are considered to be suspect.
		The ''hidage'' identifies thirty-three forts, which ensured that no one in Wessex was more than a long day's ride from a place of safety.
		After the Mercian conquest of its original territories in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, the northern boundary of Wessex was probably the River Thames ; Southwark, facing London on the south bank of the Thames, was included among the ''burhs'', but London fell beyond West Saxon territory.
	www.destination-luxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Wessex (941 words)

	Yeomanry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In order to maximise the country's defences, a number of volunteer regiments were raised in many counties by yeomen.
		Today, in the modern Territorial Army, there are many former Yeomanry regiments serving in one form or another, usually as a squadron/battery that is part of a larger unit:
		Most of the old yeomanry regiments are perpetuated through a single unit, be it an armoured, engineers or signal squadron, or an artillery battery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yeomanry (161 words)

	The Royal Family > HRH The Earl of Wessex > Honours and appointments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Earl of Wessex was appointed a CVO in 1989 and elevated to KCVO in 2003.
		In April 2006 The Earl of Wessex was appointed a Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
		His Royal Highness holds the Silver Jubilee (1977) and Golden Jubilee (2002) medals, and the New Zealand Commemorative Medal, struck in 1990 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi and the formation of modern New Zealand.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/page2725.asp (206 words)

	Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, all Yeomanry Troops were disbanded, either voluntarily or by order, in 1827.
		The RGH forms C (RGH) Sqn Royal Wessex Yeomanry as an Armoured Replacement Squadron.
		The current Guidon was presented to the RGH by Col the Duke of Beaufort, representing HM The Queen at Badminton House in 27 May 1962.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Gloucestershire_Hussars (797 words)

	The TA Royal Armoured Corps - ARRSEpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Yeomanry are the TA element of The Royal Armoured Corps
		Since the Yeomanry was first raised, over 200 years ago, large numbers of Yeomen have continued to voluntarily forego part of their personal freedom so as to defend the national freedom.
		The Yeomanry Cavalry, whose first corps were raised in 1794, was formed to be prepared to repel invasion from Revolutionary France.
	www.arrse.co.uk /wiki/The_TA_Royal_Armoured_Corps (281 words)

	Yeomanry - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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:
		You can find it there under the keyword Yeomanry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeomanry)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yeomanryandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Yeomanry (272 words)

	Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, KCVO (Edward Antony Richard Louis Mountbatten-Windsor), styled HRH The Earl of Wessex (born March 10, 1964), is a member of the British Royal Family, the youngest child and third son of Queen Elizabeth II.
		However, he was accused in the media of using his royal connections for personal and business gain, particularly given the financial problems of Ardent since its founding (it reported losses in all years of existence except one).
		The Earl and Countess of Wessex have one child: HRH Princess Louise of Wessex, known as Lady Louise Windsor (born November 8, 2003).
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Prince_Edward,_Earl_of_Wessex (1365 words)

	BBC - Gloucestershire Features - Gloucestershire's TA reservists
		Several Gloucestershire TA soldiers are among 36 members of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry who will be augmenting the Royal Dragoon Guards, a Regular Army armoured regiment, when they deploy in October on Operation Telic 5 for a six-month tour of peacekeeping duties in and around Basra.
		The Royal Wessex Yeomanry contingent, drawn from squadrons in Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Devon, reported to the Reserve Training and Mobilisation Centre in Nottinghamshire for processing and medical checks at the start of August.
		C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron of The Royal Wessex Yeomanry has its headquarters at the Somerford Road TA Centre in Cirencester.
	www.bbc.co.uk /gloucestershire/focus/2004/08/ta_reservists.shtml (481 words)

	MilitaryMary.com -- Territorial Army
		For instance, the second line 'Wessex Division' was originally called the '2nd Wessex Division' (later the 45th Division) and the second line battalion for the 1/5th East Surreys was the 2/5th East Surreys.
		Though not part of The Royal Artillery, the Honourable Artillery Company is a further artillery unit within the Territorial Army.
		Many universities also have Officer Training Corps units, which allow students to experience military life and provided a source of TA officers; for a long time, this was the only route by which it was possible to become a British Army officer without attending RMC Sandhurst, but this anomaly was removed in the mid 1980's.
	www.militarymary.com /terr.html (1256 words)

	Royal Insight > September 2005 > Mailbox > Page 3
		The titular head of the Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace, the Master of the Horse is in attendance on important ceremonial occasions when the Sovereign rides on horseback or travels by horse-drawn carriage, such as at Trooping the Colour and the State Opening of Parliament.
		Prince Albert was President from 1851 until his death in 1861, and a reception was held in the Zoo in 1887 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and to honour the support she had given as Patron.
		Throughout the twentieth century, the Royal benefactions continued, though diminishing in recent years due to greater restrictions on the movements of rare animals.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page4424.asp (1088 words)

	The Royal Wessex Yeomanry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Royal Wessex Yeomanry (or the Wessex Yeomanry as it was then known), was formed on 1 April 1971 by the re-raising of squadrons from the cadres of The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (RWY), The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (RGH) and the Royal Devon Yeomanry (RDY)/1st Rifle Volunteers.
		Under SDR the Regiment merged with The Dorset Yeomanry and was again re-organised and re-roled.
		B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron is based in Old Sarum, Wiltshire, C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron is based in Cirencester, Gloucestershire and D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron is based in Barnstaple, Devon.
	www.army.mod.uk /rac/ta_yeomanry/rwy/index.htm (427 words)

	British Army Yeomanry
		The Yeomanry has been the most effected in the recent reforms as many of its units have had to re-role from light recce to other tasks, most are still not yet fully effective in their new roles.
		The Yeomanry has traditionally been the mounted arm of the volunteers and militia who protected the British Isles when the regular army was overseas.
		Yeomanry MT units form the main elements of the Mechanised Brigades, and are each equipped with 50 Cavalier HBT.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~dheb/2300/Europe/UK/UK/ukracyeo.htm (1587 words)

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		In 1831 it was allowed to use the title 'Royal' and in 1863, having escorted the Prince of Wales on a visit to Savernake, the regiment was awarded the title 'Prince of Wales' Own Royal Regiment'.
		Between 1947 and 1954 the regiment was reformed as an anti-tank regiment in the Royal Armoured Corps.
		With the raising of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in 1970 B Squadron was designated a Wiltshire Yeomanry Squadron.
	www.swindon.gov.uk /text/heritage/heritage-yeomanry.htm (652 words)

	'D' (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron - History Archive.
		At this time the Regiment was known as the First Troop of Devon Volunteer Cavalry and was later to become the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry Cavalry in 1801, commanded by Col the Lord Rolle.
		As a result of the reorganisation of the Yeomanry in 1920 and the formation of the Territorial Army the new Regiment was armed with 18-pounder guns.
		The Royal Devon Yeomanry Museum is incorporated in the North Devon Museum, The Square Barnstaple.
	www.royaldevonyeomanry.co.uk /archives.asp (525 words)

	The Tank Museum - Bovington - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		March 25th 2000 was Territorial Army Day and the local lads and lasses of the Dorset Yeomanry elected to hold their recruiting display at the Tank Museum, right in the heart of Dorset.
		The origins of the Dorset Yeomanry can be traced right back to the late 18th Century, to the time of the Napoleonic Wars, when patriotic farmers raised troops of volunteer cavalry to resist potential invasion.
		The Dorset Yeomanry was revived in 1997 as an Armoured Delivery Regiment but further changes followed and it is now the Dorset Yeomanry Squadron of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
	www.tankmuseum.co.uk /newsrel_0900.html (228 words)

	Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex KG (Edward Antony Richard Louis Mountbatten-Windsor; born 10 March 1964), is a member of the British royal family, the youngest child and third son of Queen Elizabeth II.
		His godparents were: Prince Richard of Gloucester (now the Duke of Gloucester), Prince Louise of Hesse and by Rhine, The Earl of Snowdon, The Duchess of Kent (for whom Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent stood proxy) and Princess George of Hanover.
		The Earl and Countess of Wessex have one child: Princess Louise of Wessex, known as Lady Louise Windsor (born 8 November 2003).
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	The Royal Wessex Yeomanry
		The Royal Wessex Yeomanry performs an exciting and important role in training crewmen for the Challenger 2, the Army's main battle tank (right), and other armoured vehicles.
		The RWxY is the successor to four famous cavalry regiments - the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, the Royal Devon Yeomanry, and the Dorset Yeomanry - each squadron bearing reference to these in titles and cap badges.
		C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron, Highfield House, Somerford Road, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
	www.tawessex.org.uk /main.phtml?history=1063,1068&pageId=1068 (315 words)

	Wessex Did You Mean wessex
		It is particularly associated with the novels and poetry of Thomas Hardy, and some wish to see it restored as a region of England.
		The Burghal system of fortified towns (the "burhs") under Alfred the Great, described in both Asser and the ASC and documented in a unique hidage, 1 helped to prevent the conquest of southern England by the Danish invaders in the 870s.
		There is some evidence that kingship in Wessex was not rigidly herary.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Wessex.html (955 words)

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		It is a Royal obligation to ensure harmony between countrys, to maintain peace at all cost.
		So often, the Royals are accused of inactivity, but the picture below shows clearly that Edward is prepared, even enjoys, doing his duty for the protection of his queen and country.
	www.freewebs.com /ourroyals/coloneledward.htm (1023 words)

	Title name
		This brief history was born from a fear that the present and future members of B (RWY) Squadron of The Royal Wessex Yeomanry might either forget or never know the story of the origins of the squadron to which they belong.
		It was as a direct result of this quelling of the riots that the King directed that the Regiment be given the royal title and, henceforth, be called 'The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry': the date was the 24 January 1831.
		In 1869 the regulations for the yeomanry were amended to standardize the size of regiments to 450 and introducing statutory attendance obligations.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /rwilty/history1.html (2460 words)

	Future Army Structure - TA Rebalancing
		Welcoming the announcement, Brigadier Jolyon Jackson, Commander 43 (Wessex) Brigade, who is responsible for the Army in the south west, said the restructuring of the TA promises to be an exciting time for the volunteer reserve forces.
		The most exciting development to come out of the TA rebalancing in the south west is the establishment of a new TA transport regiment.
		The Royal Wessex Yeomanry will increase its manpower by 97 personnel in its four Squadrons based in Salisbury, Cirencester, Barnstaple and Bovington.
	www.tawessex.org.uk /main.phtml?history=1,1025&pageId=1025 (959 words)

	The Royal Wessex Yeomanry [UK]
		C Sqn reorganised as HQ (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron at Cirencester and Stroud; E (HSF) Squadron disbanded
		A (Dorset Yeomanry) Armoured Replacement Squadron at Bovington, formed by reduction of that regiment; moved later to Wareham
		C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron at Cirencester, amalgamation of A Squadron and HQ Squadron
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/volmil-england/vcav/3Wessex.htm (271 words)

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