The Volunteer Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army

The Recreation of the Territorial Army (TA) in 1947

In 1947 thirty-three regiments were reconstituted in the TA. This were the thirty-one regiments that existed before the 1939 expansion plus two yeomanry regiments converted from artillery.

	The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales’s Own)
	The Warwickshire Yeomanry
	The Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own)
	The Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry
	The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Royal Regiment)
	The Shropshire Yeomanry
	The Ayrshire (Earl of Garrick’s Own) Yeomanry
	The Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester’s)
	The Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons
	The Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert’s Own)
	The North Somerset Yeomanry
	The Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry
	The Lanarkshire Yeomanry
	The Northumberland Hussars
	The Derbyshire Yeomanry
	The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
	The Lothians and Border Horse
	The Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry
	The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
	The City of London Yeomanry
	2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons)
	3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
	The North Irish Horse
	The Northamptonshire Yeomanry
	The East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry
	C (Lovat Scouts) Squadron, The Scottish Horse
	The Scottish Horse
	The Inns of Court Regiment
	40th (The King’s) Royal Tank Regiment   41st (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment   42nd Royal Tank Regiment   43rd (6th (City) Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Royal Tank Regiment   44th/50th Royal Tank Regiment   45th/51st (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment