Yeomanry order of precedence

Unlike the British Army, the Territorial Army and with respect to this page, the Yeomanry, has frequently been the subject of amalgamations and absorptions in its history. The subject of precedence within the Yeomanry can sometimes be contentious with debates as to 'who is on the right of the line' quite commonplace when two or more cap badges are brought together.

It must be noted that precedence is merely a reflection of the current convention regarding the order in which units parade within the British Army.

Precedence

The rule for establishing the order of precedence is the date of commission of the first troop of the regiment and its subsequent unbroken service, including both official service and unpaid accepted unpaid service. Disbanded regiments automatically lost precedence. In order to maintain the order of precedence, when the Territorial Army was reorganised in 1969 some units established a cadre so that they were not completely disbanded. When the cadre-ised unit was subsequently re-established, the unit or more frequently as was the case, sub-unit, could continue to claim an un-broken service. Needless to say, like any good rule, the order of precedence has exceptions.

Since 1994 and the Royal Review of Serving Yeomanry Regiments & Yeomanry Old Comrades there have been effectively two orders of precedence in place:
*Army List of 1914, and
*Order of Yeomanry Titles on parade at The Royal Yeomanry Review

Order of precedence from the Army List of 1914

The first is a list of yeomanry units on the establishment at the out break of the First World War and therefore contains units that had been disbanded by the time of The Royal Yeomanry Review. This first list does not contain the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (who are an affiliated unit), nor the North and South Irish Horse (who were on the Special Reserveref|SpecialReserve at this time).

Order of Yeomanry titles on parade

The second order of precedence represents units that were on the establishment of the Territorial Army (and affiliated to the Territorial Army) at the time of the review and potentially could indicate the status of contemporary Yeomanry units. Order of precedence in this instance includes the current role of the unit, placing Armoured Corps before Artillery and so on.

The approach taken at The Royal Yeomanry Review can be summarised as follows:
*Units are ordered in accordance with British Army Order of Precedence
*Sub-Units are ordered in accordance with the Army List of 1914, as amended by any subsequent disbandments, amalgamations etc.

The following is the taken from the last page of the programme printed for The Royal Yeomanry Review. As on that day, the list below has been divided into blocks corresponding to the order in which the units formed and grouped.

The Royal Yeomanry
• Royal Wiltshire Yeomanryref|RWY1
• Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry (PAO)
• Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
• Inns of Court and City Yeomanryref|ICCY1
• Westminster Dragoons
  The Royal Wessex Yeomanry
• Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry
• Royal Wiltshire Yeomanryref|RWY2
• Royal Gloucestershire Hussarsref|RGH1
• Royal Devon Yeomanry
  The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
• Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanryref|WWY1
• Queen's Own Staffordshire Yeomanry
• Shropshire Yeomanryref|SY1
• Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry
  The Queen's Own Yeomanry
• Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry
• Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
• Cheshire Yeomanryref|CY1
• Northumberland Hussars
  The Scottish Yeomanry
• Earl of Carrick's Own Ayrshire Yeomanry
• Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry
• Lothian and Border Horse
• Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse
  
• North Irish Horse
  
• Bedfordshire Yeomanry
• Hertfordshire Yeomanry
  
• Duke of Yorks Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars
• King's Own Royal Norfolk Yeomanry
  
• Glamorgan Yeomanry
  
• The Sussex Yeomanry
  
• Hampshire Yeomanry
  
• Duke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex Yeomanry
  
• Cheshire Yeomanryref|CY2
  
• Shropshire Yeomanryref|SY2
  
• Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanryref|WWY2
  
• Essex Yeomanry
  
• Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars
  
• Inns of Court and City Yeomanryref|ICCY2
• Berkshire Yeomanry
• Kent and County of London Yeomanry
  
• Surrey Yeomanry
  
• Lovat Scouts
  
• Pembrokeshire (Castlemartin) Yeomanry
  
• First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

Notes

# Units on the Special Reserve take precedence after a Regular Unit and before a Yeomanry Unit.
# A Sqn Royal Yeomanry
# Band of the Royal Yeomanry
# B Sqn Royal Wessex Yeomanry
# A and HQ Sqns Royal Wessex Yeomanry
# The Band of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry
# A Sqn Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
# HQ Sqn Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
# C Sqn Queen's Own Yeomanry
# 80 Sig Sqn (V), 33 Sig Regt (V)
# 95 Sig Sqn (V), 35 Sig Regt (V)
# 67 Sig Sqn (V), 37 Sig Regt (V)
# 68 Sig Sqn (V), 71 Sig Regt (V)

References

• cite book|first=Patrick|last=Mileham|title=The Yeomanry Regiments|publisher=Canongate Academic|location=Edinburgh|year=1994|id=ISBN 978-1-898410-36-2
• cite book|title=Royal Review of Serving Yeomanry Regiments & Old Comrades by Her Majesty The Queen|year=1994

ee also

*British Army Order of Precedence
*Yeomanry