Hertfordshire Yeomanry

The Hertfordshire Yeomanry was a Yeomanry Cavalry regiment of the British Army that could trace its formation to the late 18th century. First seeing mounted service in the Second Boer War and World War I, it subsequently converted to artillery. Three regiments saw service in World War II, one of which was captured at the fall of Singapore. It continued through various postwar amalgamations and its lineage was maintained by 201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery, 100th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery until that unit was placed in suspended animation in 2014.

French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

After Britain was drawn into the

On 7 May 1794 the Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, the Marquess of Salisbury, called a meeting at Hertford that opened a subscription list to provide arms and uniforms, and resolved to raise a force of yeomanry that could be embodied in defence of the county. The first were recruited on 21 June and by the end of the year five independent troops of 50 sabres had been raised:^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}

• Northern Troop, commanded by Captain W. Hale of King's Walden
• Western Troop, commanded by Capt the Hon George Villiers of The Grove, Watford
• Southern Troop, commanded by Capt
  Theobalds Park, Cheshunt
• Eastern Troop, commanded by Capt John Calvert of Albury
• Centre Troop, commanded by Capt the Hon Penistone Lamb of Brocket Hall

In the spring of 1798 the threat of invasion seemed more acute, and the government encouraged the formation of local armed associations of cavalry and infantry for purely local defence. The following Volunteer Cavalry units were formed in Hertfordshire:^[4][8][10]

• Beechwood Troop, commanded by Capt Sir John Sebright, 7th Baronet, of Beechwood Park
• Sawbridgeworth Troop. commanded by Capt Michael Hankin
• A Troop was raised in the parishes of Layston, Wyddial and Throcking under Capt J.G. Franklin with the Rev John Hull as Lieutenant, but this was short-lived.
• In addition a Troop of horse or 'flying' artillery was formed to support the Yeomanry, commanded by Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, of Wormleybury

There was little difference between the Yeomanry and the Volunteer Cavalry, and they were treated similarly. All seven Troops were on parade at

All the Volunteer Cavalry were disbanded after the Treaty of Amiens, but the peace was short-lived, and on the resumption of war the Hertfordshire units were reformed in August 1803 with an additional Troop, giving the county the following Yeomanry and Volunteer Cavalry by 1805:^{[4][2][8][12][13]}

• Southern Troop, Major Sir Abraham Hume, 135 men
  • Horse Artillery, Capt John Cook
• Northern Troop, Capt Adolphus Meetkerke of Rushden, 70 men
• Eastern Troop, Capt John Calvert, 70 men
• Beechwood Troop, Capt Sir John Sebright, 70 men
• Sawbridgeworth Troop, Capt Michael Hankin
• Ashridge Troop, Lt-Gen the Earl of Bridgewater, 50 men
• Midland Troop, Capt the Hon Penistone Lamb, 120 men
• Western Troop, Capt the Hon G. Villiers, 80 men

On 20 August 1803 Sir Abraham Hume assumed command of the South Hertfordshire Legion, an all-arms 'battle group' consisting of the Southern Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, the Horse Artillery Troop, and the Cheshunt and Wormley Volunteer Infantry, one of the infantry units that had been raised in the county.

The Yeomanry declined in importance and strength after the end of the French wars,[17] and by 1824 all the Hertfordshire Troops had been disbanded.^[6][7] However, a wave of civil unrest across Britain from 1830 led to a revival of the Yeomanry and new Troops were formed in Hertfordshire from December that year. First came two troops of Light Dragoons designated the South Herts Yeomanry Cavalry, shortly joined by a third troop at Hertford. Then came a number of independent troops across the county so that by March 1831 they totalled seven:^{[5][7][6][18][19][20]}

South Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry (Light Dragoons)

• • Commanding Officer: Major James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
  • 1st South Hertfordshire Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, formed 6 December 1830 at Hoddesdon
  • 2nd South Hertfordshire Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, formed 6 December 1830 at Hatfield
  • 3rd South Hertfordshire Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, formed 18 December 1830 at Hertford, under Capt Baron Dimsdale, from 1833 Capt Viscount Fordwich
• Cashio Troop of Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry (Heavy Dragoons), formed 23 December 1830 at Gorhambury House, near St Albans, under Capt Viscount Grimston (son and heir of the Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Verulam)
• Northern Troop of Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry formed 16 February 1831 at Baldock under Capt-Commandant Samuel H. Unwin Heathcote of Shephall
• Dacorum Troop of Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry (Heavy Dragoons), formed 16 February 1831 at Beechwood under Capt Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright, disbanded March 1836
• Gilston Troop of Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, formed 9 March 1831 under Capt Henry George Ward, disbanded 12 November 1842

The Cashio Troop joined the South Herts as its fourth troop on 14 February 1832, when the Marquess of Salisbury was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and Viscount Grimston to major. In 1835 the Cashio Trp was called out to guard the courthouse at Ampthill in neighbouring Bedfordshire, and later in the year to guard Hatfield House against looters after a fire. Grimston (by then 2nd Earl of Verulam) took over the command in 1847, while the Marquess of Salisbury dropped back to major. By 1850 the troops were designated A, B, C and D (Cashio). The North Herts Troop remained independent as the North Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, and may have reached the strength of four troops required for an independent regiment, but had been reduced to one by 1850. Both regiments (except the Cashio Trp) were designated as

Following the Cardwell Reforms a mobilisation scheme began to appear in the Army List from December 1875. This assigned Yeomanry units places in an order of battle of corps, divisions and brigades for the 'Active Army', even though these formations were entirely theoretical, with no staff or services assigned. The Hertfordshire Yeomanry were assigned as 'divisional troops' to 2nd Division of I Corps based at Chelmsford, alongside Regular Army units of infantry, artillery and engineers stationed in Eastern England. This was never more than a paper organisation, but from April 1893 the Army List showed the Yeomanry regiments grouped into brigades for collective training. They were commanded by the senior regimental commanding officer (CO) but they did have a Regular Army Brigade major. The Hertfordshire Yeomanry together with the Suffolk Yeomanry formed the 7th Yeomanry Brigade. The Yeomanry brigades disappeared from the Army List after the Second Boer War. The troops were grouped into pairs as squadrons on 1 April 1893.^[7][24][26]

Imperial Yeomanry

Following a string of defeats during

From May 1900 the 12th Bn IY was serving as Corps Troops with Lord Roberts' main army north of the Orange River. It served on the Rhenoster River and in the Brandwater Basin operations. 42nd (Herts) Company then operated around Krugersdorp and Potchefstroom for the rest of its service, seeing a good deal of action.^[36][37] The First Contingent of the Imperial Yeomanry completed their year's term of service in 1901 and 42nd Company went home in May, having earned the Hertfordshire Yeomanry its first Battle honour: South Africa 1900–01.^{[6][7][24][38][39]} Among the civilian volunteers who joined the 42nd Company was Dr Arthur Martin-Leake from Hemel Hempstead District Hospital, who enlisted as a trooper. After his year's service Martin-Leake became a medical officer in the South African Constabulary and won the Victoria Cross (VC) for rescuing wounded under fire in February 1902. He won a Bar to his VC – one of only three ever awarded – for his conduct at the First Battle of Ypres in 1914.^[40]

The mounted infantry concept was considered a success and before the war ended the existing Yeomanry regiments at home (including the Hertfordshires) were converted into Imperial Yeomanry, with an establishment of RHQ and four squadrons with an MG section.^{[7][22][24][41][42]} On his return from South Africa (where he had served as second-in-command of 12th Bn IY), Maj the Earl of Essex (son of Viscount Malden, the former CO) was promoted to succeed Lt-Col the Earl of Clarendon as CO of the Hertfordshire Imperial Yeomanry.^[21][24][43]

Territorial Force

The Imperial Yeomanry were subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908.^[44][45][46] The Hertfordshire Yeomanry, which also recruited from North London suburbs, were organised as follows:^{[5][6][7][24][47][2][48][49]}

• RHQ at St Albans; moved into Yeomanry House, 28 St Andrew's Street, Hertford, in 1910^[50][51]
• A Squadron at 32 Market Street, Watford,^[52] with detachments at Berkhamsted and St John's Wood^[53]
• B Squadron at 24 Raynham Road, Hertford,^[54] then to Yeomanry House, with detachments at Broxbourne,^[53] Enfield Lock, Hoddesdon and Sawbridgeworth^[53]
• C Squadron at 23 Prospect Road, St Albans, moved to Ramsbury Road by 1914,^[55] with detachments at Hendon,^[56][57] Harpenden, Davies Street (Mayfair), Islington, Hemel Hempstead, Radlett and Redbourn
• D Squadron at 51 Salisbury Road,
  High Barnet,^[58] with detachments at Enfield, Finsbury Park, Harringay, Hitchin
  and Islington

The Hertfordshire Yeomanry was attached for training to the TF's Eastern Mounted Brigade.^{[24][47][59][60][61][62]} The Earl of Essex retired from the regimental command in 1913 and was succeeded by Lt-Col Abel Henry Smith.^[24][50]

World War I

Mobilisation

The Hertfordshire Yeomanry completed its 1914 annual camp at the end of the first week in June. On the outbreak of

On 31 August the 1/1st Herts Yeomanry was warned for service in Egypt. The regiment's CO, Lt-Col Abel Smith, was not passed medically fit for overseas service, so Col T.E. Harrison, DSO, retired from the Leicestershire Yeomanry, was 'dug out' to take the 1/1st Herts Yeomanry overseas. Lieutenant-Col Abel Smith took command of the 2/1st Herts Yeomanry. The war establishment of a cavalry regiment overseas was three rather than four squadrons: C Sqn 1/1st Herts Yeomanry was broken up and the manpower distributed to the other three; its officer commanding, Maj Reginald Halsey, formed the Regimental Depot at RHQ, but had rejoined 1/1st Herts Yeomanry before it sailed.^[67][68]

In February 1915 1/1st Herts Yeomanry joined the

In February 1916 the regiment was split up to provide divisional cavalry squadrons to the infantry divisions evacuated from Gallipoli:[47]^[60][70]

• Regimental HQ with A Sqn and the MG Section were attached to
  54th (East Anglian) Division and served with it at the First and Second Battles of Gaza. In August 1917 A Squadron joined XXI Corps Cavalry Regiment.^[71][72][73]
• B Squadron was attached to
  XVIII Corps Cavalry Regiment. In July 1917 the squadron returned to Egypt, where it served as the depot squadron in the Cavalry Wing of the Imperial School of Instruction at Zeitoun.^[74][75][76]
• D Squadron was attached to
  Calcutta.^[77][78][79]

A Squadron 1/1st Herts Yeomanry joined XXI Corps Cavalry Regiment on 26 August 1917. The other two squadrons of the regiment were A Sqn 1/1st Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry and C Sqn 1/1st Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry (QORGY). In November the composite regiment formed part of the pursuing force after the Third Battle of Gaza. In May 1918 B Sqn 1/1st Herts Yeomanry at Zeitoun exchanged with C Sqn QORGY, and both Herts squadrons served together in XXI Corps Cavalry Regiment for the rest of the war. The regiment fought in the final Battle of Megiddo and then carried out an epic march up the coast of Ottoman Syria to liberate the ports.^{[47][60][71][72][80][a]}

2/1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry

The 2nd Line regiment was formed under Lt-Col Abel Smith at Hertford on 1 September 1914 and quickly recruited up to the war establishment for a yeomanry regiment. The Hertfordshire Territorial Association was able rapidly to provide uniforms and reasonably modern equipment. It spent the winter of 1914–15 in billets at Hertford then took over the old militia barracks in the town with temporary stabling when the horses arrived.

The Regimental Depot remained in existence at Hertford as an administrative centre, first under Capt Barré Goldie, then under Col Abel Smith, until April 1917, when the Yeomanry lancer and dragoon depots were concentrated at Canterbury.^[89]

Interwar

Before the TF reformed on 7 February 1920 the War Office had decided that only a small number of mounted Yeomanry regiments would be required in future, and the remainder would have to be re-roled, mainly as artillery.

In 1938 the RA modernised its nomenclature and a lieutenant-colonel's command was designated a 'regiment' rather than a 'brigade'.[93]^{[5][7][2][24][95]}

World War II

Mobilisation

Following the

• 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment^[100][101]
  • RHQ at Hertford
  • 341 (St Albans) Field Bty
  • 342 (Hertford) Field Bty
• 135th Field Regiment – formed 22 July 1939^{[102][103][104]}
  • RHQ at Hitchin
  • 344 (Hitchin) Field Bty
  • 336 (Northamptonshire) Field Bty
    – transferred from 84th (East Anglian) Field Bde; this battery had originally formed part of 4th East Anglian Bde alongside the two Hertfordshire batteries (see above)
• 79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Anti-Aircraft Regiment – formed 1 November 1938 by expansion of 343 (Watford) Field Bty^[105][106]
  • RHQ at Watford
  • 246 (1st Watford) AA Bty
  • 247 (2nd Watford) AA Bty
  • 248 (Welwyn) AA Bty
• 191st (Hertfordshire and Essex Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – formed 21 December 1942 with cadres drawn from 86th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) and 147th (Essex Yeomanry) Field Rgts while both regiments were serving with 42nd Armoured Division^[107][108]
  • 532 Field Bty – cadre from 413 Bty of 147th Fd Rgt
  • 533 Field Bty – cadre from 462 Bty of 86th Fd Rgt
  • 534 Field Bty – cadres from both regiments

86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment

The 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was mobilised in September 1939. In 1940 the regiment was equipped with 8 x 4.5 inch Howitzers & 4 x 18/25-pounder guns. On 18 November 1940 it formed an additional 343 Bty, renumbered as 462 Bty 18 January 1941.

135th Field Regiment was being formed on the outbreak of war and became independent of 86th Field Rgt on 7 September 1939. The regiment was part of

As prisoners of war (PoWs) many of the men of 135th Field Rgt were forced to work on the Wan Po viaduct on the Burma Railway, which inspired the book and film The Bridge on the River Kwai. The regiment's commanding officer Lt-Col Philip Toosey was the senior Allied officer in the associated Prisoner-of-war camp, but unlike the fictional Colonel Nicholson did not collaborate with the Japanese.^[103][115]

191st (Hertfordshire and Essex Yeomanry) Field Regiment

In 1942 both 86th (East Anglian) (Herts Yeomanry) and 147th (Essex Yeomanry) Field Regiments supplied cadres to help form 191st (Hertfordshire and Essex Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. This regimenta also served through the campaign in North West Europe, supporting varied formations in the battles in Normandy, the liberation of Le Havre and the battles of the Scheldt under First Canadian Army. It was broken up in December 1944 to provide infantry reinforcements.^[108][116]

79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment

79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery was formed in 1939 with headquarters at Watford.It served in the

The regiment was reconstituted as 286 (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment (later Medium Regiment) in 1947 and absorbed 479 (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment in 1955.^[7][95][118] The regiment amalgamated with the 305th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Light Regiment to form the 286th (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment in 1961.^[7] The unit was disbanded in 1967 but reformed as 201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery, 100th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery in 1971.^[119] Under Army 2020, this unit was placed in suspended animation in 2014.^[120]

Heritage and ceremonial

Uniforms and insignia

At the time of the Royal Review in 1800, the five Yeomanry Troops wore blue coats with red cuffs and collars and buff waistcoats. They wore

The Hart (male deer) is frequently used as a punning badge by organisations in Hertfordshire (pronounced and occasionally written as 'Hartfordshire'). A Hart 'Trippant' was adopted by the Northern Troop as its badge at some point in the period 1794–1824 and was used by the regiment thereafter. In this case the hart is surrounded by a garter inscribed 'NORTH HARTS YEOMANRY' surmounted by a crown. From 1831 the South Herts and the Dacorum Trp wore the hart in the centre of a crowned Maltese cross as their Shako plate. On the 1852 pattern helmet the South Herts' badge was a hart trippant in a ford.^[122] The button adopted by the South Herts in 1831 had a crown within a garter inscribed 'HARTS YEOMANRY CAVALRY'; this design remained in use for all ranks until the formation of the Imperial Yeomanry (when the garter became a plain circle inscribed "HERTS IMPERIAL YEOMANRY'), but officers continued to wear the original design until 1919.^[123]

From their formation in 1831, A,B and C Trps of the South Herts wore light dragoon uniforms of a dark green long-tailed Coatee with a scarlet plastron front and black mohair lace, together with 'Oxford mixture' (dark blue-grey) trousers with a red stripe The headgear was a dark green (later black) shako. D (Cashio) Troop was dressed as heavy dragoons in a scarlet coatee with green facings and a white metal helmet with black plume. The light troops replaced the shako with a black lacquered helmet in 1852.^[20][124]

In the mid-1860s the distinction between the heavy and light troops of the regiment was abandoned, and all wore a new uniform with a single-breasted scarlet

Upon conversion to Imperial Yeomanry in 1906 the regiment adopted the standard khaki IY uniform with scarlet collars and cuffs; ORs wore a Slouch hat with the left side turned up and secured with the hart badge on a red rosette. Officers wore a khaki peaked cap, which was used by all ranks after 1906.Although officers might continue to purchase the full dress uniform, ORs had a 'substitute full dress' consisting of a scarlet 'frock' or jacket with pockets, worn with a pillbox cap until 1906 when a blue peaked cap with white piping was introduced. All ranks wore dark blue overalls with double red stripes. After 1908 the Hertfordshire Yeomanry wore the standard khaki service dress of the British Army, with regimental insignia, for nearly all occasions. This included leather bandoliers during the regiment's remaining years as a mounted unit. After 1938 khaki battledress was adopted.^[127][128]

When converted to artillery, the regiment had to adopt the

When the regiment was reformed in 1947 the hart collar badge was continued and all ranks wore shoulder-chains on blue patrol jackets. At the same time the pre-1900 'Harts Yeomanry Cavalry' button was reintroduced.[95] 286 (Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Rgt wore the hart as a cap badge, with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry badge on the collar.^[95]

Standards and guidons

In 1795 at Theobald's Park, Lady Prescott presented her husband's Southern Troop of Yeomanry with a

The regiment received an official guidon in 1909. This was red with a circle inscribed HERTS YEOMANRY' inside a union wreath of roses, thistles and shamrocks, with a crown above and the battle honour 'SOUTH AFRICA 1900–01' on a scroll beneath. After 1924 the battle honours (South Africa and nine from World War I) appeared in two columns of scrolls, but it was never paraded after the regiment converted to artillery.[131]

Honorary Colonels

The following served as Honorary Colonel of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry:^[24] x

• Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon, TD, appointed 7 February 1903, died 2 October 1914^[132]
• George Capell, 7th Earl of Essex, TD, appointed November 1914, died 25 September 1916^[21][133]
• Col Abel Henry Smith, TD, appointed 26 September 1916
• Col Abel Smith from the Herts Yeomanry and James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury (himself a former Herts Yeomanry officer) from the 4th East Anglian Brigade, RFA, served as joint Hon Cols of 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Brigade after the merger in 1921.^[134][93]
• Col B.A.H. Goldie, CBE, TD, appointed 21 February 1931

Other prominent members

• 7th Hussars and during World War I he served in the Remount Service as a Temporary Captain.^{[24][21][135][136]}
• Francis Fremantle, who had served as a civilian doctor with the field force in the Second Boer War, was commissioned into the Herts Yeomanry in 1902 and was promoted to Surgeon-Captain on 12 May 1906. During World War I He served as a senior Royal Army Medical Corps staff officer at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia. Postwar he was elected MP for St Albans and was knighted.^[24][137]

Battle honours

The Hertfordshire Yeomanry was awarded the following

• Second Boer War: South Africa 1900–01
• World War I: Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Suez Canal, Egypt, 1915–16, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine, 1918

The regiment claimed the World War I battle honours to which it was entitled, but as it had been converted to artillery the

There are three stone tablets in the War Memorial Chapel of St Albans Cathedral commemorating the dead of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry:

• The first was erected by the regiment to the nine members of 42nd (Hertfordshire) Company, IY, who died on service during the Second Boer War.^[138]
• A second was unveiled on 31 July 1921 to the 64 men of the regiment who died in World War I.^[139]
• The third, to the men of all four Hertfordshire Yeomanry artillery regiments who died during World War II, was unveiled on 19 September 1954.^[140][141]

See also

• Imperial Yeomanry
• List of Yeomanry Regiments 1908
• Yeomanry
• Yeomanry order of precedence
• British yeomanry during the First World War
• Second line yeomanry regiments of the British Army
• List of British Army Yeomanry Regiments converted to Royal Artillery

Footnotes

Notes

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External links

• Anglo-Boer War
• Chris Baker, The Long, Long Trail
• Bruce Bassett-Powell's Uniformology.
• Mark Conrad, The British Army, 1914 (archive site)
• The Drill Hall Project
• Great War Centenary Drill Halls
• Imperial War Museum, War Memorials Register
• Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth – Regiments.org (archive site)
• Roll of Honour
• Royal Artillery 1939–45.
• Stepping Forward: A Tribute to the Volunteer Military Reservists and Supporting Auxiliaries of Greater London

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