The Leicestershire and Derbyshire (Prince Albert's Own)

Yeomanry Yeomanry is a designation used by a number of units or sub-units of the British Army Reserve, descended from volunteer cavalry regiments. Today, Yeomanry units serve in a variety of different military roles. History Origins In the 1790s, f ...

was formed in 1957 as a regiment of the

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. It evolved to become part of the

Royal Yeomanry The Royal Yeomanry (RY) is the senior reserve light cavalry regiment of the British Army. Equipped with Supacat Jackal variants, their role is to conduct mounted and dismounted formation reconnaissance. The Regimental Headquarters is located in ...

. Its lineage is maintained by the E (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron of that regiment.

History

The regiment was formed by the amalgamation of the Leicestershire Yeomanry and the

Derbyshire Yeomanry The Derbyshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794, which served as a cavalry regiment and dismounted infantry regiment in the First World War and provided two reconnaissance regiments in the Second World Wa ...

in 1957. The regiment was re-roled as

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in 1967, with four squadrons. In 1969 it was reduced to a

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. The cadre paraded its Guidon at

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later that year and was expanded to squadron strength as the Leicestershire and Derbyshire (Prince Albert's Own) Yeomanry Squadron, 7th Battalion, the

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in 1971. The squadron was re-designated a company in 1975 and the company was split into two parts in 1978: * The Leicestershire and Derbyshire (Prince Albert's Own) Yeomanry Company, 7th (Volunteer) Battalion, The

* B (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Company, 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The

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Theses units were re-designated respectively in 1992: * 3 (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment * B (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron, The

The Royal Anglian company converted to become 158th (Royal Anglian) Transport Regiment of the

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in 1996, and ceased to maintain its yeomanry lineage. Meanwhile B (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry was re-designated E (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry in June 2015. It now uses the Land Rover ''RWMIK'' and operates in a light armoured reconnaissance role.

References

{{reflist Yeomanry regiments of the British Army Military units and formations established in 1957 Military units and formations in Leicestershire Military units and formations in Derbyshire Derbyshire Yeomanry Leicestershire Yeomanry