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The Yeomanry is a Volunteer Force, and as is generally known, was embodied in Great Britain during the wars of the French Revolution.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross
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The dissolution of the Yeomanry was the act of the last ministry.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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Genuinely not sure on this one, but who decides on the dress regs for the rump 'Yeomanry' TA units, is it their Corps (be it RA (yes I know its a Regt), Sigs, RE, RLC etc) or some committee of old buffers from the TA units passim.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Genuinely not sure on this one, but who decides on the dress regs for the rump 'Yeomanry' TA units, is it their Corps (be it RA (yes I know its a Regt), Sigs, RE, RLC etc) or some committee of old buffers from the TA units passim.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Genuinely not sure on this one, but who decides on the dress regs for the rump 'Yeomanry' TA units, is it their Corps (be it RA (yes I know its a Regt), Sigs, RE, RLC etc) or some committee of old buffers from the TA units passim.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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An Essex Yeomanry gunner recalled his battery's contempt for men abandoning a stalled truck "when a few seconds under the bonnet would have possibly kept it going".
Libya's history warns us of the dangers on the road to Ras Lanuf 2011
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The women, many of them titled, were mostly WRNS or FANNYs—members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The women, many of them titled, were mostly WRNS or FANNYs—members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Gubbins was known to party all night, sometimes wearing a kilt, with members of FANY—the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, which provided cover for female agents sent into the field and whose gently bred female members played an indispensable role in SOE.
Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010
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“I am researching the history of my local regiment, the Lanarkshire Yeomanry, and am seeking information about the part played by the 155th Field Regiment [Lanarkshire Yeomanry] in the Malayan campaign”.
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