The Volunteer Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army

The Volunteers from 1859 to 1880

The Yeomanry Cavalry and Light Horse Volunteers in 1895 - 1900

The Companies of the Imperial Yeomanry during the Second Boer War

The Regiments of the Imperial Yeomanry 1903


The Territorial Force Mounted Brigades 1910-14

The Territorial Force was an army for home defence and for the first time higher tactical formations were created in the volunteer forces. For the Cavalry there were fourteen Mounted Brigades, each of three Yeomanry Regiments. Each Brigade also had a Battery of Royal Horse Artillery, a transport and supply column and a field ambulance.

Below are the Yeomanry Regiments and the Mounted Brigades they were part of.

See the Artillery Volunteers section for the artillery units of the Mounted Brigades.

The Suffolk Yeomanry (The Duke of York’s Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars) (TF) } The Eastern Mounted Brigade
The Norfolk Yeomanry (The King’s Own Royal Regiment) (TF)
The Essex Yeomanry (TF)
The Hertfordshire Yeomanry (TF) attached
The Bedfordshire Yeomanry (TF) attached
The Northamptonshire Yeomanry (TF) attached
 
The Royal East Kent (The Duke of Connaught’s Own) Yeomanry (Mounted Rifles) (TF) } The South Eastern Mounted Brigade
The West Kent Yeomanry (Queen’s Own) (TF)
The Sussex Yeomanry (TF)
The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary’s Regiment) (Lancers) (TF) attached
 
The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) (TF) } The London Mounted Brigade
1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex, The Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars) (TF)
3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) (TF)
2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) (TF) attached
 
The Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own) (TF) } The Yorkshire Mounted Brigade
The Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry (Queen’s Own) (TF)
The East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry (TF)
The Northumberland Hussars (Yeomanry) (TF) attached
 
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales’s Own) (TF) } 1st South Western Mounted Brigade
The North Somerset Yeomanry (TF)
The Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers) (TF)
 
The Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry (TF) } 2nd South Western Mounted Brigade
The Royal North Devon Yeomanry (TF)
The West Somerset Yeomanry (TF)
 
The Shropshire Yeomanry (TF) } The Welsh Border Mounted Brigade
The Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester’s) (TF)
The Denbighshire (Hussars) Yeomanry (TF)
The Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry (TF) attached
The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry (TF) attached
The Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry (TF) attached
 
The Pembroke Yeomanry (Castlemartin) (Hussars) (TF) } The South Wales Mounted Brigade
The Montgomeryshire Yeomanry (TF)
The Glamorganshire Yeomanry (TF)
The Welsh Horse (TF) attached
 
The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers) (TF) } The Notts and Derby Mounted Brigade
The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) (TF)
The Derbyshire Yeomanry (TF)
 
The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Royal Regiment) (TF) } The North Midland Mounted Brigade
The Leicestershire (Prince Albert’s Own) Yeomanry (TF)
The Lincolnshire Yeomanry (TF)
 
The Fifeshire and Forfarshire Yeomanry (TF) } The Highland Mounted Brigade
1st Lovat Scouts (TF)
2nd Lovat Scouts (TF)
 
The Ayrshire (Earl of Garrick’s Own) Yeomanry (TF) } The Lowland Mounted Brigade
The Lanarkshire Yeomanry (TF)
The Lothians and Border Horse (TF)
 
The Warwickshire Yeomanry (TF) } 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade
The Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) (TF)
The Worcestershire Yeomanry (The Queen’s Own Worcestershire Hussars) (TF)
 
The Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars) (TF) } 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade
The Berkshire (Hungerford) Yeomanry (TF)
The Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars) (TF)
 
1st Scottish Horse (TF) unattached in Scottish Command
2nd Scottish Horse (TF) unattached in Scottish Command
3rd Scottish Horse (TF) unattached in Scottish Command
 

The Yeomanry Regiments of the Territorial Force (TF) and the Special Reserve in 1914 (TF)

The Creation of the Territorial Army (TA) from 1920 to 1922 (TF)

The Regiments of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1939 (TF)

The Recreation of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1947 (TF)

The Reductions from 1947 and 1961 (TF)

The Regiments of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1961 (TF)

The Regiments of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (TAVR) in 1967 (TF)

The Royal Armoured Corps Regiments of the Territorial Army in 2010

The Royal Armoured Corps Regiments of the Army Reserve in 2023

Alphabetical List of the Regiments