Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars was a volunteer yeomanry regiment. It traced its origins to the First or Cheltenham Troop of Gloucester’s Gentleman and Yeomanry raised in 1795. In 1847, the regiment adopted a hussar uniform and the name Royal Glouceys Hussars. The Regiment was formed in 1847 and adopted its current name in 1848. It fought in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First and Second World Wars.
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The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars was a volunteer yeomanry regiment. It traced its origins to the First or Cheltenham Troop of Gloucester’s Gentleman and Yeomanry raised in 1795. In 1847, the regiment adopted a hussar uniform and the name Royal Glouceys Hussars. The first battle honour was won in South Africa during the Second Boer War. On the outbreak of the First World War the regiment raised a second-line unit, which remained in the UK and became a cyclist unit in 1916. After the war the regiment was downsized and converted to the 21st Armoured Car Company. When the United Kingdom began mobilising again in the late 1930s, the company converted to an armoured regiment and was restored to its former name. Repeated reorganisation of the Territorial Army in the 1960s reduced the regiment to a squadron assigned to an infantry role. In the 1990s the squadron returned to an armour role in the Royal WessexYeomanry. The regiment was disbanded in 1943 and replaced by the 2nd Royal Gloucester Hussars, which was equipped with armoured cars and given a reconnaissance role. It has since been reformed into the Royal Regiment of Hussars and served in the British Army Reserve. It is now part of the Queen’s Royal Hussars Regiment, which is based in the West Midlands and has a squadron of soldiers based in Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire. It was disbanded at the end of the Second World War and the regiment is now a part of The Royal Hussar Regiment, based in Buckinghamshire.
The Regiment was formed in 1847 and adopted its current name in 1848. It fought in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First and Second World Wars. It saw action as infantry at Gallipoli and as cavalry in the Suez Canal to Aleppo in modern-day Syria. It also fought both mounted and dismounted in the Second Boer War, and the Second Battle of the Nile in the Third World War. It served as mounted infantry in the Imperial Yeoman War in South Africa and the Third World War in Europe. The yeoman forces were recruited from among the nobility and gentry, and recruited largely from among landholders and tenant farmers. Members provided their own horses and were not paid except when called out to suppress civil unrest in neighbouring counties. In 1794, fearing insurrection and faced with the threat of invasion during the French Revolutionary Wars, British Prime Minister William Pitt made the first ever recorded mention of yeoman cavalry when he called for an augmentation of the cavalry for internal defence. The government subsequently proposed a plan to increase the number of Lord-Lieutenants– the monarch’s personal representative in each county– to raise troops of cavalry. This included the raising of troops consisting of gentlemen and yeomanries. The plan was to raise a force of cavalry consisting of gentlemen and yeomanrys, commanded by a temporary Commanders.
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