Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry
Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry | |
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Active | 15 May 1794 – 7 June 1920 |
Country | First World War
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The Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry was a
History
Formation and early history
Under threat of invasion by the
Despite the end of the
The unwillingness of the government to pay for the Yeomanry led to many corps[a] being disbanded in 1827–28. Twenty two corps were authorised to continue officially, and another sixteen were allowed to continue to serve without pay.[4] Serving without pay from 1828 to 1831, the Regiment was never disbanded.[7]
The regiment was renamed as the Royal 1st Devonshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1871 with Headquarters at Exeter. On 1 April 1893, the troops were reorganised in squadrons.[2]
Second Boer War
Due to the string of defeats during
The Royal 1st Devonshire Yeomanry Cavalry and the Royal North Devon Hussars co-sponsored the 27th (Devonshire) Company of the 7th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry[9] which arrived in South Africa on 23 March 1900.[10]
On 17 April 1901, the regiment was renamed as the Royal 1st Devon Imperial Yeomanry and reorganised in four squadrons and a machine gun section. On 1 April 1908, the regiment was renamed for the final time as the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry and transferred to the
The regiment's organisation was:[2]
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HQ | Exeter |
A Squadron | Thorverton (detachments at Crediton, Tiverton, Rackenford, Cullompton, Bampton) |
B Squadron | Ottery St Mary (detachments at Exmouth, Exeter, Axminster, Sidmouth, Dawlish) |
C Squadron | Totnes (detachments at Moretonhampstead, Bovey Tracey, Newton Abbot, Dartmouth, Kingsbridge, Plymouth) |
D Squadron | Bodmin (Cornwall) (detachments at Launceston, Camelford, Liskeard, Truro, Helston, Penzance (all in Cornwall)) |
It was ranked as 28th (of 55) in the order of precedence of the Yeomanry Regiments in the Army List of 1914.[14]
First World War
2nd South Western Mounted Brigade |
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Organisation on 4 August 1914 |
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In accordance with the
1/1st Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry
At the outbreak of the
Gallipoli 1915
Still with the 2nd South Western Mounted Brigade, in September 1915 the regiment left Colchester for
Egypt 1916–17
On 30 December 1915, the regiment landed in
Palestine 1917–18
With the 74th Division, it took part in the invasion of
France and Flanders 1918
On 7 May 1918, 16th (Royal 1st Devon and Royal North Devon Yeomanry) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment landed at
2/1st Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry
The 2nd Line regiment was formed in September 1914 and stationed at
In November 1916 it became a
3/1st Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry
The 3rd Line regiment was formed at Exeter in 1915. In the summer it was affiliated to a
Postwar
On 7 February 1920, the Regiment was reconstituted in the
Regimental museum
The Royal Devon Yeomanry Museum is incorporated in the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon in The Square, Barnstaple.[33]
Battle honours
The Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry was awarded the following
Second Boer War | South Africa 1900–01
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First World War | Palestine 1917–18
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List of Colonels
- Col. Baldwin III Fulford (1801-1871) of Great Fulford, Devon.[34]
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
Notes
- ^ Corps in this context meaning either an independent troop or a number of troops under a single command.[6]
- ^ The former regimental headquarters at No. 9 Dix's Field went on to become the YMCA[12] before being bombed during the Second World War and then being demolished, along with many of the other houses in the terrace, in the 1950s.[13]
References
- ^ Mileham 1994, pp. 8–10
- ^ a b c d e "Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry at regiments.org by T.F.Mills". Archived from the original on 7 May 2007. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Mileham 1994, p. 14
- ^ Mileham 1994, p. 19
- ^ Mileham 1994, p. 72
- ^ Mileham 1994, p. 82
- ^ "Boer War Notes". Retrieved 20 February 2013.
- ^ "Imperial Yeomanry at regiments.org by T.F.Mills". Archived from the original on 29 May 2007. Retrieved 29 May 2007.
- ^ "Boer War - Imperial Yeomanry Battalions". Retrieved 20 February 2013.
- ^ "Exeter". The Drill Hall Project. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ^ "Dix's Field". Exeter Memories. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ^ "Dix's Field: "Only Ruin, not Annihilation"". Demolition Exeter. 19 October 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ^ Mileham 1994, p. 73
- ^ Conrad, Mark (1996). "The British Army, 1914".
- ^ Rinaldi 2008, p. 35
- ^ a b James 1978, p. 17
- ^ Becke 1938, p. 21
- ^ Becke 1936, p. 15
- ^ Becke 1936, p. 119
- ^ Westlake 1996, p. 253
- ^ Baker, Chris. "74th (Yeomanry) Division". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ^ Chappell, PB. "Miscellaneous Units Serving Overseas". The Regimental Warpath 1914-18. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ^ Becke 1937, p. 121
- ^ Becke 1937, p. 122
- ^ James 1978, p. 55
- ^ a b c James 1978, pp. 17–18
- ^ James 1978, p. 36
- ^ Becke 1936, p. 3
- ^ James 1978, p. 18
- ^ Mileham 1994, p. 48
- ^ Mileham 1994, p. 50
- ^ "Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon". Devon Museums website. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp. 847–8, pedigree of Fulford of Fulford, p.848
Bibliography
- Becke, Major A.F. (1936). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 2A. The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42-56). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 1-871167-12-4.
- Becke, Major A.F. (1937). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 2B. The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th-69th) with The Home-Service Divisions (71st-73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 1-871167-00-0.
- Becke, Major A.F. (1938). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 3A. New Army Divisions (9-26). London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 1-871167-08-6.
- James, Brigadier E.A. (1978). British Regiments 1914–18. London: Samson Books Limited. ISBN 0-906304-03-2.
- Mileham, Patrick (1994). The Yeomanry Regiments; 200 Years of Tradition. Edinburgh: Canongate Academic. ISBN 1-898410-36-4.
- Rinaldi, Richard A (2008). Order of Battle of the British Army 1914. Ravi Rikhye. ISBN 978-0-97760728-0.
- Westlake, Ray (1996). British Regiments at Gallipoli. Barnsley: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-85052-511-X.
External links
- Baker, Chris. "The Royal 1st Devonshire Yeomanry". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry at regiments.org by T.F.Mills at the Wayback Machine (archived 15 July 2007)
- "Roll of 27th Company, 7th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry". www.angloboerwar.com. Retrieved 15 May 2014.