The first reinforcements to arrive were the Composite Regiment of the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade ; they came up on the flank of their mounted regiment ; the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars ' " D " Squadron west of Mount Royston, which was being attacked by a strong body of Ottoman soldiers.

The Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment arrived with its brigade between 11: 00 and 11: 30 to find the Composite Yeomanry Regiment ( 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade ) in contact with the German and Ottoman forces on the south-west side of Mount Royston.

The New Zealand Mounted Rifle and 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigades were supported by leading infantry battalions of the 127th ( Manchester ) Brigade ( which had just arrived ) when Ottoman and German soldiers began to surrender en masse.

At 10: 30, the general mounted advance began and by midday, was on a line from west of Bir Nagid to south of Katib Gannit ; in the centre the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade were approaching the south-west edge of the Katia oasis ; on their left the 1st, the 2nd Light Horse, the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigades and infantry in the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division were attacking Abu Hamra, to the north of the old caravan road, while the 3rd Light Horse Brigade was away to the New Zealander's right, south of the old caravan road, attacking German and Ottoman units at Bir el Hamisah.

It was decided that the three light horse brigades would advance mounted with the Yeomanry to attack the German and Ottoman right flank.

The Mobile Column in the south, consisting of the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, the 11th Light Horse, and the mounted City of London Yeomanry Regiments ( less two squadrons ), advanced from Ferdan and the Ballah railhead to attack the German and Ottoman left flank, working through Bir El Mageibra, Bir El Aweidia and Hod El Bayud.

The same three brigades-one mounted rifle, one light horse and one Yeomanry, with the 10th Light Horse Regiment ( 3rd Light Horse Brigade ) supporting the Yeomanry-moved to attack the German and Ottoman position at Oghratina, but the rearguard position was again found to be too strong.

As the 3rd Light Horse Brigade came up, they passed many dead Ottomans and Yeomanry ; one dead Ottoman sniper had a heap of hundreds of rounds of empty cartridge shells beside him.

On their right, with a gap of, was the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, which was in touch with a small flying column ; the Mobile Column of the City of London Yeomanry, 11th Light Horse Regiments and the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, which was to again attempt to get round the German and Ottoman left flank and cut off their retreat.

At this time, the rearguard launched another heavy counterattack with two columns of 5, 000 and 6, 000 German and Ottoman soldiers against the Canterbury and Auckland Regiments and the squadron of the Warwickshire Yeomanry.

The Australian Light Horsemen, the New Zealand mounted riflemen, of the Anzac Mounted Division ( Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division ) with the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade and a light car patrol, successfully assaulted El Magruntein, during a day-long attack in which the Ottoman position was encircled and finally captured in the late afternoon.

At 09: 45 a squadron from the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars, 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade had charged Ottoman units north west of Kh.

Lieutenant Colonel Wigan with two squadrons and one troop of Berkshire Yeomanry took command of the front and sent back information about the German and Ottoman attack by infantry, mounted troops and some machine guns.

The 8th and 9th Light Horse Regiments, 3rd Light Horse Brigade, with the 1 / 1st Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry, 6th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade, on their right and 1st Nottinghamshire Battery Royal Horse Artillery on the left of the 6th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade and Berkshire Battery in the centre enfiladed the advancing Ottoman formations.

At 19: 30 the 22nd Mounted Yeomanry Brigade was moving toward Divisional Headquarters while the 6th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade drew back to a better position while Ottoman soldiers dug in on Hill 405.

The 4th Light Horse and 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigades managed similar advances on their sectors but nowhere were the Ottoman trenches reached and given the inferior position of the attackers, there was no prospect of making a successful bayonet charge.

The XX Corps ' infantry divisions, the 10th ( Irish ), the 60th ( 2 / 2nd London ), and the 74th ( Yeomanry ) Divisions with support from infantry in the 53rd ( Welsh ) Division fought the Seventh Ottoman Army's III Corps ' 24th, 26th and 53rd Divisions.

** 8 November-About 200 men of the Warwickshire Yeomanry and Worcestershire Yeomanry charge with sabres drawn and defeat an Ottoman battery and a large group of Ottoman infantry at Huj.

A group of seven Tiger tanks from the Heavy SS-Panzer Battalion 101, supported by several other tanks, was ambushed by tanks from A Squadron, 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry, A Squadron, the Sherbrooke Fuisilier Regiment, and B Squadron, the 144 Royal Armoured Corps.

The killing shots have long been thought to have come from a Sherman Firefly of ‘ 3 Troop ’, A Squadron, 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry ( commander-Sergeant Gordon ; gunner-Trooper Joe Ekins ), which was positioned in a wood called Delle de la Roque on the advancing Tigers ' right flank at approximately 12: 47.

In the Yeomanry Association's The Sharpshooter newsletter, tanker Robert Moore recalls that he was the one responsible for forcing Wittmann to pull back, when a shot from his tank dented the Tiger's driver visor.

Less than 50 years later, in 1846 a similar register of 22 able-bodied men had been assembled to form the Chesham troop of the Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry which coincided with the billeting of troops from the Queen's Own 7th Hussars passing through the town on their way to Ireland.

The contribution of reservists to the deployment ( some 9, 500 of the 46, 000 personnel involved in the warfighting phase and its immediate aftermath, the vast majority from the Territorial Army, and in significant number in the subsequent roulements ) is understated by the order of battle, as the only units to deploy in their entirety were 202 Field Hospital ( with augmentees from the other TAVR Field Hospitals ), 131 Independent Commando Squadron of the Royal Engineers as well as A ( Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry ) Squadron and W ( Westminster Dragoons ) Squadron of the Royal Yeomanry.

In the inter-war years, he served with the Territorial Army as a Lieutenant in the Shropshire Yeomanry from 1921, then as Captain in the 16th Battalion, London Regiment from 1929 to 1932.

He led the Cheshire Yeomanry as Colonel Commandant from 1869.

On 1 February 1941 he passed out from Sandhurst, the British Army officer training academy, and was posted to the Second Derbyshire Yeomanry at Ripon.

Yeomanry is a designation used by a number of units or sub-units of the British Territorial Army, descended from volunteer cavalry regiments.

While the word " yeoman " in normal use meant a small farmer who owned his land, Yeomanry officers were drawn from the nobility or the landed gentry, and many of the men were the officers ' tenants or had other forms of obligation to the officers.

During the Second Boer War companies of Imperial Yeomanry were formed to serve overseas from volunteers from the Yeomanry.

Volunteers from the Yeomanry served in the Long Range Desert Group from 1940 through to 1943, incorporated into " Y Patrol ".

Later she was recruited to join F ( France ) Section of the Special Operations Executive and in early February 1943 she was posted to the Air Ministry, Directorate of Air Intelligence, seconded to First Aid Nursing Yeomanry ( FANY ), and sent to Wanborough Manor, near Guildford in Surrey, and from there to various other SOE schools for training, including STS 5 Winterfold, STS 36 Boarmans and STS 52 Thame Park.

* at Hill 70, from Romani, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade ( less the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, but with the 2nd Light Horse Brigade's 5th Light Horse Regiment, temporarily attached ), commanded by Edward Chaytor, and the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade, under the direct command of Lawrence, were joined on the railway by infantry in the 126th ( East Lancashire ) Brigade ( 42nd Division ).

The Yeomanry and New Zealand brigades had both been stationed at Hill 70, from Romani, when their orders to move were received.

At 19: 30, when the New Zealand Mounted Rifle and 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigades moved from the positions they had won to water and rest at Pelusium, the area was consolidated by infantry in the 127th ( Manchester ) Brigade, 42nd Division.

The advance of the 3rd Light Horse and the New Zealand Mounted Brigades from Oghratina to Bir el Abd was to begin at daylight on 9 August, with the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade forming the reserve.

The plan now was for infantry from the 60th ( 2 / 2nd London ) Division to advance north astride the Jerusalem to Nablus road with infantry from the 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division advancing eastwards from Beit Ur el Foka to converge on the Bireh-Ramalla ridge.

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

After he returned to England in 1897 to the bank ’ s home office he received his father ’ s approval to join a territorial militia of weekend soldiers called the Hampshire Yeomanry.

During the war, officers and soldiers of the Royal Yeomanry found themselves serving with 16 Air Assault Brigade, 7 Armoured Brigade ( the Desert Rats ) and 3 Commando Brigade as NBC specialists, before switching roles to infantry “ peace support ” operations once Saddam Hussein ’ s regime had collapsed.

Since 2007, the Royal Yeomanry has provided officers and soldiers as individual replacements on Operation HERRICK in Afghanistan.

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Category: British Yeomanry soldiers

Tourist attractions in Lindley include a British memorial in the local cemetery to British soldiers who died on 31 May 1900 at Yeomanry Hills during the siege of Lindley, prehistoric stone huts of the original inhabitants of the area as well as a miniature replica of the Dutch Reformed Church that was erected in 1928 in memory of those who died during the Second Anglo-Boer War.

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