The Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (QOYY) was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army from 1956 to 1971. Its lineage is maintained today by A (Yorkshire Yeomanry) Squadron,

Queen's Own Yeomanry The Queen's Own Yeomanry (QOY) is a reserve light cavalry reconnaissance regiment of the British Army. The regiment is part of the 19th Brigade, which was reactivated in 2022. The regimental headquarters is at Fenham Barracks, Newcastle, with sq ...

History

The regiment was formed by the amalgamation of three

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ) is an area of Northern England which was History of Yorkshire, historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its county town, the ...

Yeomanry regiments, the Yorkshire Hussars, the

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and the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry in 1956.Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry
Archive of regiments.org page. The regiment was equipped with

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armoured cars and

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s, and later

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s and

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s. In 1967, it was disbanded and immediately reconstituted as the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (T), a TAVR III (Home Defence) infantry unit of the Territorial Army. It was reduced to a cadre in 1969, and became the Yorkshire Squadron, the

in 1971. During the 1970s the Yorkshire Squadron was equipped with

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s and Ferrets, later to be replaced by the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Wheeled) and Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) series of vehicles and trained to provide rear area security for I British Corps. The unit then transitioned away from tracked vehicles and onto wheel based platformed, first with Land Rover ''RWMIK'' in 2003 and then onto

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in 2018 to perform the light armoured reconnaissance role.

A (Yorkshire Yeomanry) Squadron,
Queen's Own Yeomanry The Queen's Own Yeomanry (QOY) is a reserve light cavalry reconnaissance regiment of the British Army. The regiment is part of the 19th Brigade, which was reactivated in 2022. The regimental headquarters is at Fenham Barracks, Newcastle, with sq ...

Freedom of York

A (Yorkshire Yeomanry) Squadron was granted Freedom of the City of York on 3 December 2009. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the

, A (Yorkshire Yeomanry) exercised the Freedom once again in April 2022.

References

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