Great Britain (Volunteers)

Hertfordshire - Bedfordshire

Yeomanry Cavalry Yeomanry Cavalry
 
1794: independent troops
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1797: │
│		 independent troops
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1803: │
│		 Bedfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry
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1810: │
│		 disbanded
1817: │
│		 Bedfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry
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1827: │
│		 disbanded
1824: disbanded
 
1830: independent troops
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183?: The South Hertfordshire
Regiment of
Yeomanry Cavalry
│		 The North Hertfordshire
Regiment of
Yeomanry Cavalry
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│ │ Formation of the Volunteer Force
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1862: │
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│		 1st Hertfordshire Light Horse Volunteer Corps
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1870: The Hertfordshire Regiment of
Yeomanry Cavalry
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1874: The Hertfordshire Yeomanry
(Dragoons)
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1879: │
│		 disbanded
Herts
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1900:
sponsored
42nd (Hertfordshire) Company,
12th Battalion,
Imperial Yeomanry
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28th (Bedfordshire) Company,
4th Battalion,
Imperial Yeomanry
perpetuated by
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Renaming to Imperial Yeomanry Raised in the Imperial Yeomanry
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1901: The Hertfordshire
Imperial Yeomanry		 The Bedfordshire
Imperial Yeomanry
Herts
│		 Beds
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│		 from elements of
1st (Hertfordshire)
Volunteer Battalion,
The Bedfordshire Regiment
and
2nd (Hertfordshire)
Volunteer Battalion,
The Bedfordshire Regiment
and
1st Volunteer Battalion,
The Northamptonshire
Regiment
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Creation of the Territorial Force
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1908: The Hertfordshire Yeomanry (TF) 1st Hertfordshire Battery,
2nd Hertfordshire Battery,
Northamptonshire Battery,
IV East Anglian Ammunition Column,
IV East Anglian Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (TF)		 The Bedfordshire Yeomanry (TF)
Herts
│		 RA
│		 Beds
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1914: 1/1st, 2/1st and 3/1st
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
│		 1/IV East Anglian Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (TF)
│		 2/IV East Anglian Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (TF)
│		 1/1st, 2/1st and 3/1st
Bedfordshire Yeomanry
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1916: │
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│		 CCLXXIII Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery
│		 CCCXLVIII Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery
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1916: │
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│		 CCLXX Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery
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1919: │
│		 suspended animation
│		 disbanded │
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1920: 3rd East Anglian Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (TF)
│		 10th (Bedford) Army Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (TF)
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Creation of the Territorial Army
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1921: 86th (East Anglian) Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (TA)
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│		 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry)
Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (TA)
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1922: 86th (East Anglian)
(Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (TA)
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1924: 86th (East Anglian)
(Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
Field Brigade,
Royal Artillery (TA)
│		 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry)
(Army) Field Brigade,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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1938: │
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│		 79th Anti-Aircraft Brigade,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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1938: 86th (East Anglian)
(Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
│		 79th Anti-Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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│		 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry)
Army Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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1939: 135th Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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│		 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
Anti-Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
│		 105th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry)
Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery
│		 148th Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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1939: │
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│		 52nd (Bedfordshire Yeomanry)
Heavy Regiment,
Royal Artillery
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1940: 135th (East Anglian)
(Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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│		 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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│		 disbanded │
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1942: captured
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│		 captured
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1943: │
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│		 52nd Heavy Regiment,
Royal Artillery
(Bedfordshire Yeomanry)
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1944: │
│		 suspended animation
│		 suspended animation
│		 suspended animation
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Resurrection of the Territorial Army
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1947: disbanded 286th Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery
(Hertfordshire Yeomanry) (TA)
│		 479th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery
(Hertfordshire Yeomanry) (TA)
│		 305th Medium Regiment,
Royal Artillery
(Bedfordshire Yeomanry) (TA)
│		 disbanded
1954: 286th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
Medium Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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Herts
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│		 Beds
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1955: │
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1956: 286th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
│		 305th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry)
Light Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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1961: R (South Hertfordshire) Battery, P Battery, Q Battery,
286th (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry)
Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
Herts-Beds
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1964: 286th (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry)
Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)
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Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
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1967: disbanded and formed
201st (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery,
100th (Eastern) Medium Regiment,
Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
and
No 2 (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Company,
No 3 (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Company,
The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
(Territorials)
 

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