Great Britain (Volunteers)

The Royal Wessex Yeomanry

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formed from
883rd (Gloucestershire Volunteer
Artillery) Locating Battery,

Royal Artillery

and
The Royal Gloucestershire
Hussars
(TA)

and
5th Battalion,
The Gloucestershire
Regiment
(TA)

formed from elements of:
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
(Prince of Wales’s Own)
(TA)

and
4th Battalion,
The Wiltshire Regiment
(Duke of Edinburgh’s)
(TA)

formed from
296th (Royal Devon Yeomanry)
Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery (TA)

and
43rd Division/District
Signal Regiment,
Royal Signals (TA)
and
116th (Devon and Cornwall)
Engineer Regiment,
Royal Engineers (TA)

and
The Devonshire Regiment
(1st Rifle Volunteers)
(TA)

Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
1967: The Royal Gloucestershire
Hussars (Territorials)
The Royal Wiltshire Territorials The Devonshire Territorials
(Royal Devon Yeomanry /
1st Rifle Volunteers)
Glos
Wilts
Devons
1969: reduced to cadre as reduced to cadres as reduced to cadre as
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The Royal Gloucstershire
Hussars

The Wiltshire Regiment
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
(Prince of Wales’s Own)

The Royal Devon Yeomanry /
1st Rifle Volunteers

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1971: A (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars)
Squadron,
C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars)
Squadron,
B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry)
Squadron,
D (Royal Devon Yeomanry /
1st Rifle Volunteers) Squadron,
Glos Glos Wilts Devon
The Wessex Yeomanry




1974:


D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron,
1979: The Royal Wessex Yeomanry
1992:
HQ (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars)
Squadron,



1997: The Dorset Yeomanry
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Dorset
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1999: C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron, B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron, D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron, A (Dorset Yeomanry) Squadron,
The Royal Wessex Yeomanry
2014: RWxY
2018: RWxY