Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 November 2000. Corrected and updated 30.12.2004
 
 
The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment)
 
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
1794.07.04 Staffordshire Volunteer Cavalry
one troop raised at The Swan Inn, Stafford
1794 more independent troops raised at Newcastle, Lichfield, Leek and Walsall
1794.09.20 Staffordshire Regiment of Gentlemen and Yeomanry
regimentation of three of the original troops
1uuu Royal Pottery troop raised at Hanley, more troops raised at Loyal Bilston, Tamworth, Wolverhampton, Weston and Tiddesley
18uu troops raised at Uttoxeter, Stone, Eccleshall, plus Loyal Handsworth troop (establishment at fourteen troops in 1803)
1808 reduced to twelve troops
1838.02.12 The Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry
1893.04.01 troops reorganised in squadrons
 
  • A Squadron, troops at Lichfield and Walsall
  • B Squadron, troops at Newcastle and Stafford
  • C Squadron, troops at Burton (Anglesey?) and Uttoxeter
  • D Squadron, troops at Himley and Wolverhampton
1900 sponsored 6th and 106th Coys, 4th Bn, Imperial Yeomanry
1901.04.17 Staffordshire Imperial Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment)
reorganised in four sqns and MG sec
1908.04.01 The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) (Hussars)
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Stafford
 
  • A Squadron at Walsall (dets at West Bromwich, Tamworth, Lichfield, Sutton Coldfield)
  • B Squadron at Stoke-on-Trent (dets at Stafford, Leek, Canmock, Newcastle-under-Lyme)
  • C Squadron at Burton-on-Trent (det at Uttoxeter)
  • D Squadron at Wilverhampton (det at himley)
1920.02.07 reconstituted in T.A.. with HQ at Stafford
1941.04.12 transferred to Royal Armoured Corps
1947.01.01 reconstituted in T.A.. with HQ at Stafford
1967.04.01 The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) (Territorials)
reorganised as infantry in TAVR III with HQ at Wolverhampton, less some personnel to 5th/6th (Territorial) Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
 
  • A Squadron at Wolverhampton, formed from The Staffordshire Yeomanry, and HQ RA 48 (West Midland) Div/Dist.
  • B (887 Locating Battery) Squadron at Stafford, formed from 887 Locating Bty RA and parts of 125 Engineer Regt RE
  • C Squadron at Burton-on-Trent, formed from The Staffordshire Yeomanry, and HQ RA 48 (West Midland) Div/Dist.
1969.01.01 The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment)
reduced to cadre, sponsored by HQ 30 Engineer Brigade (V)
1971.04.01 B (Staffordshire Yeomanry) Squadron, Mercian Yeomanry
reconstituted from cadre at Tipton and Stafford and Lichfield
1973.05.25 B (Staffordshire Yeomanry) Squadron, The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry
1992.11.01 B (Staffordshire Yeomanry) Squadron, The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
at Dudley with detachment at Shrewsbury
1999.07.01 amalgamated with A (Warwickshire and Worcestershire) Squadron of the regiment, to form
A (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire) Squadron, The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
 
     
  Associated Regular Regiments:
    Hussars 1908-
    16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers 1947-1999
 
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
Staffordshire Yeomanry, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
Staffordshire Yeomanry, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
 
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
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Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
[no external sites have been found]
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
Museum of the Staffordshire Yeomanry, Stafford (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Museum of the Staffordshire Yeomanry, Stafford (Simonides listing)
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-01

The Great War:  Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1917-18

The Second World War:  Normandy Landing, Caen, Troarn, Rhine, Lingen, North-West Europe 1944-45, Syria 1941, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, El Agheila, Advance on Tripoli, Tebaga Gap, Point 201 (Roman Wall), El Hamma, Akarit, Sebkret en Noual, Djebel el Telil, Enfidaville, Takrouna, North Africa 1942-43

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
    Lt-Col. Henry Roy Marsh, MBE, TD
1967.04.01 Lt-Col. Henry Roy Marsh, MBE, TD [reappointed]
  1969.04.01 Lt-Col. Henry Roy Marsh, MBE, TD [reappointed]
<1979> vacant
1984.04.01 Maj. D.G. Roddick, TD
1995.01.03 Maj. A.E.R. Manners, TD
  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography How To Find Books