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===Land Rover ''RWMIK''===
===Land Rover ''RWMIK''===


[[File:BRITISH ARMY MOD SPEC LAND ROVER PATROL VECHICLE ALBERT DOCK LIVERPOOL MAY 2013 (8817705446).jpg|thumb|right|A static British Army WMIK on display.]]
[[File:BRITISH ARMY MOD SPEC LAND ROVER PATROL VECHICLE ALBERT DOCK LIVERPOOL MAY 2013 (8817705446).jpg|thumb|200px|right|A static British Army WMIK on display.]]


The regiment's main equipment is the [[Land Rover Wolf#Weapons Mount Installation Kit|Land Rover ''RWMIK'']] CVR(W) Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Wheeled); a light armoured vehicle, equipped with the [[General Purpose Machine Gun]] (GPMG) and the [[Browning M2]] .50 Heavy Machine Gun (HMG), as well as individual BOWMAN digital battlefield communications systems and specialised surveillance optics, including thermal, night, infra-red, laser range finding and targeting equipment.<ref name=whoweare/>
The regiment's main equipment is the [[Land Rover Wolf#Weapons Mount Installation Kit|Land Rover ''RWMIK'']] CVR(W) Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Wheeled); a light armoured vehicle, equipped with the [[General Purpose Machine Gun]] (GPMG) and the [[Browning M2]] .50 Heavy Machine Gun (HMG), as well as individual BOWMAN digital battlefield communications systems and specialised surveillance optics, including thermal, night, infra-red, laser range finding and targeting equipment.<ref name=whoweare/>
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In November 2018, the Royal Yeomanry acquired its first Supacat Jackal as part of a fielding plan which will see it gradually replace the Land Rover ''RWMIK'' by March 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forces.net/technology/land-vehicles/first-jackals-delivered-royal-yeomanry|title=First Jackal Delivered To Royal Yeomanry|publisher=Forces Network|accessdate=1 December 2018}}</ref>
In November 2018, the Royal Yeomanry acquired its first Supacat Jackal as part of a fielding plan which will see it gradually replace the Land Rover ''RWMIK'' by March 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forces.net/technology/land-vehicles/first-jackals-delivered-royal-yeomanry|title=First Jackal Delivered To Royal Yeomanry|publisher=Forces Network|accessdate=1 December 2018}}</ref>

===Land Rover Wolf===

The regiment is equipped with [[Land Rover Wolf]] for use by regimental and squadron headquarters as command vehicles and with the Land Rover battlefield ambulance.

===MAN Support Vehicle===

The backbone of the regiment's integral logistic support is provided by a fleet of MAN SVs from the [[RMMV TG MIL range of trucks]].

===Crew-served Weapons===

The primary crew-served weapon system used by the Royal Yeomanry is the [[FN MAG]] 7.62 x 51mm belt-fed L7A2 General Purpose Machine Gun, either mounted on its vehicles or deployed dismounted. The GPMG has an effective range of 1800m when mounted and a cyclic rate of fire of 750 rounds per minute.

The regiment is also equipped with vehicle-mounted L1A1 12.7mm (.50) Heavy Machine Gun (HMG), an updated version of the [[M2 Browning]]. This weapon system can also be used dismounted or mounted. The HMG provides the vehicle commander with added capability at greater ranges (1500-2000m) when support from armoured vehicles is not available.

===Personal Weapons===

Each officer and soldier in the Royal Yeomanry is equipped with the L85A2 ([[SA80]]) rifle. The regiment also has an allocation of [[Glock]] 17 pistols.

===Communications Equipment===

The Royal Yeomanry is equipped with [[Bowman (communications system)]] VHF radios including [[Personal Role Radio]], UK/PRC355 (5 W manpack), UK/VRC357 (16 W vehicle clip-in radio) and UK/VRC359 (50 W vehicle-mounted high-power radio). The regiment also uses the ComBAT Battlefield Information System Applications running over the Bowman infrastructure.

===Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance Equipment===

The Royal Yeomanry uses a range of specialised surveillance optics, including thermal, night, infra-red, laser range finding and targeting equipment.<ref name=whoweare/>


==Organisation==
==Organisation==

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The Royal Yeomanry
Cap badge of the Royal Yeomanry
Active1 April 1967–
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeYeomanry
RoleLight Cavalry
SizeOne Regiment
Part ofRoyal Armoured Corps
Garrison/HQRHQ – Fulham House, London
A Squadron – Nottingham
B Squadron – Dudley
C Squadron – Croydon
C Squadron Detachment – Windsor
D Squadron – Telford
E Squadron – Leicester
Command & Support Squadron – Fulham
Band - London
MarchThe Farmers Boy
EngagementsIraq 2003
Commanders
Current
commander		Lt Col Thomas WH Bragg VR
Royal Honorary ColonelHRH Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy LG GCVO
Honorary ColonelMajor General Simon Howe Brooks-Ward CVO OBE TD VR
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash

The Royal Yeomanry (RY) is the senior reserve light cavalry regiment of the British Army. Equipped with Supacat Jackal variants and the Land Rover RWMIK, the Royal Yeomanry's military role is to conduct mounted and dismounted formation reconnaissance. The Regimental Headquarters is located at Fulham in London, with squadrons in London and the Midlands at Fulham, Nottingham, Dudley, Croydon (with an outstation in Windsor), Telford and Leicester.[1]

The regiment is part of the Royal Armoured Corps and is paired with and supports the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG). QDG and RY together form the light cavalry reconnaissance component of 7th Infantry Brigade (the Desert Rats), serving alongside six infantry battalions (three regular, three Army Reserve).[2] The RY is one of three light cavalry reserve regiments in 1st (United Kingdom) Division.

The Royal Yeomanry is the only British Army Reserve unit to have been awarded a battle honour since the Second World War.[3]

History

Formation and Succession

The Royal Yeomanry Regiment (Volunteers) was raised on 1 April 1967, following the disbandment of the Territorial Army the previous day under the Reserve Forces Act 1966 and its replacement by a newly-constituted organisation, the TAVR (Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve).[4]

The legal effect of the Act and the orders implementing it (Army Order 2 dated 28 January 1967 and the Army Reserves Succession Warrant 1967)[4] was that there was no succession of lineage from the disbanded regiments and battalions of the old Territorial Army to the new units being raised. However, the warrant also stated ‘the wish to provide for succession of units raised' and then listed those new units which would be deemed to be successors to previous Territorial Army units. The Royal Yeomanry Regiment (Volunteers) was to be regarded as the successor to the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, the Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry, the North Irish Horse, and the Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons.[5]

The Act established four categories of army reservists: TAVR I ('Ever Readies') consisted of high-readiness soldiers and specialists. TAVR II ('Volunteers') consisted of units with a limited war or general war role. Equipped to regular army scales they had a substantial training commitment, more arduous that in the old Territorial Army. TAVR III ('Territorials') were the home defence units with light equipment scales and a much-reduced training commitment; this category was disbanded on 1 April 1969. TAVR IV was a miscellany of units such as University Officer Training Corps and bands.[6]

The Royal Yeomanry Regiment (Volunteers) was in TAVR II.[7] For four years, it was the only Royal Armoured Corps yeomanry reserve regiment: hence its generic name. In 1971, three new RAC Yeomanry regiments (the Queen’s Own Yeomanry, the Mercian Yeomanry and the Wessex Yeomanry) were raised and the Royal Yeomanry's name was shortened to its current one; the opportunity to give it a more distinctive name was missed. The Queen's Own Yeomanry was given the same NATO role as the Royal Yeomanry, while the other two were Home Defence light reconnaissance.[5]

The Cold War

The Royal Yeomanry's role during the Cold War was medium armoured reconnaissance. Its purpose was to reinforce the British Corps in Germany at less than one week's notice. Its primary task was to operate as a highly mobile force able to protect the massive, widespread logistic assets of the Corps, and certain key bridges against covert attacks and airborne descents by Soviet special forces. In addition it trained to perform the full range of medium armoured reconnaissance tasks for general war. The Royal Yeomanry was equipped with armoured cars,[1] first Saladin, Saracen and Ferret, then Fox, Spartan and Sultan.[8] Each squadron had an establishment (maximum number of personnel) of around 120, operated 30 armoured vehicles and around 15 soft-skinned vehicles and was supported by a team of 11 regular army instructors and five local civilian staff.[8]

Options for Change (1990) and the Strategic Defence Review (1998)

The ‘peace dividend’ review of the Armed Forces (‘Options for Change’) which followed the end of the Cold War saw substantial changes to the Royal Yeomanry's role, equipment and establishment. These were justified by the then Secretary of State for Defence on the basis of a perceived "need to adapt [the Territorial Army's] roles to support and complement the new roles of the regular army. Under the previous strategy, it had important roles defending positions close to the previous West German border in support of the substantial British stationed forces. Clearly this task is no longer relevant in a unified Germany and under the new NATO strategy of greater flexibility and mobility. Instead, new opportunities arise to be part of the Rapid Reaction Corps and in national defence, and it is for these new roles and responsibilities that the Territorial Army units must now be structured and trained."[9]

As a result, in 1992 the Royal Yeomanry was reduced in status and function to align with what were by then four other RAC yeomanry regiments and become national defence light reconnaissance, converting from armour to the Scout Land Rover and reducing in establishment by half, to between 50-60 personnel per squadron.[10] At this time, the Royal Yeomanry lost two squadrons to the Queen's Own Yeomanry (one in Nottingham, which later returned to the Regiment, and the other in Northern Ireland) and gained one (in Leicester).[11]

Fuchs CBRN Reconnaissance Vehicle

The Royal Yeomanry's national defence role encompassed a wide spectrum of possible operational uses. They included NATO, United Nations and national operations world wide, as well as military aid to the civil authorities in the United Kingdom and military home defence.[12] However, the role was perceived to be ill-defined and too broad a set of potential outputs to train against using limited resources. At a time when the Territorial Army was under continuing pressure to reduce in size and capabilities, this was regarded as potentially imperilling the regiment's existence. A more definite role which would address a clear Defence requirement was needed. Consequently, in 1996[13] the Royal Yeomanry accepted the role of being the British Army's only[14] specialist nuclear, biological and chemical defence regiment,[13][1] taking on the 11 Fuchs CBRN reconnaissance vehicles which had been acquired by the British Army during the 1990 Gulf War.[15]

The Royal Yeomanry served exclusively in the CBRN (or NBC) role from 1996 until 1999. During this time, its first operational deployments began. On 1 April 1999, on the recommendation of the Strategic Defence Review, the Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment (originally, the Joint NBC Regiment) was formed as a joint regular Army and Royal Air Force unit composed of four squadrons of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment and 27 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment.[16][17] The Royal Yeomanry was therefore reconfigured and partly re-roled. Two of the Royal Yeomanry's squadrons (A and W) were retained in the CBRN role to provide reserves for the new Joint NBC Regiment.[18] The three non-CBRN squadrons converted to Challenger 2 to serve as reserves for armoured regiments. The establishment of each squadron was increased to 80-90. The regiment lost D (Berkshire Yeomanry) Squadron in Slough to disbandment but regained S (Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry) Squadron in Nottingham from the Queen's Own Yeomanry. [19]

Future Army Structure (TA) (2006), Army 2020 (2012) and Army 2020 (Refine) (2015)

In 2006, as a result of the changes to the Territorial Army triggered by the Future Army Structure unveiled by the Ministry of Defence in 2004,[20] the Royal Yeomanry's role ceased to be split between CBRN and Challenger 2 reserves. It was consolidated into a single role: 'formation CBRN reconnaissance'. In practice, this meant continuing to train as CBRN specialists and as RAC crew using the Scout Land Rover as a surrogate training platform, while also training as CVR(T) crew. This change paved the way for the uplift of each squadron's vehicle fleet to include two CVR(T) Spartan armoured fighting vehicles for training purposes.[21] Soldiers and officers of the Royal Yeomanry then began to deploy to Afghanistan on Operation HERRICK as Scimitar, Spartan and Samaritan gunners, drivers and loaders.[22]

Since 2013 the Royal Yeomanry has been a reserve light cavalry regiment. In that year, under the Army 2020 changes, it was paired with 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) and became part of 7th Infantry Brigade within 1st (United Kingdom) Division.[23] It gained two squadrons (in Telford and Dudley)[24] of the disbanded Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry but lost a squadron (in Swindon) to the Royal Wessex Yeomanry (initially planned to be reduced from a squadron to a troop but later retained at squadron size).[25] The Royal Yeomanry's light cavalry role is to provide a rapidly deployable force with fast mobility and substantial firepower as part of the British Army's combat arm. Its soldiers provide reconnaissance, reassurance, security and, if the situation demands it, decisive tactical effects by raiding and attacking the enemy.[1]

Under Army 2020 (Refine), it was confirmed that the Royal Yeomanry would (exceptionally) retain all six of its squadrons, two of which had been under threat of deletion under the 2013 plan.[26]

Operational Deployments

Operation DESERT FOX, BOLTON, and AGRICOLA (Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo)

The Royal Yeomanry's first operational deployment was in 1998 as CBRN/NBC specialists, to Kuwait.[13] Some 35 members of the regiment deployed in August 1998 to set up biological detection systems in advance of Operation DESERT FOX (the Bombing of Iraq (1998)) and stayed on as part of Operation BOLTON. Between 1998 and 2002, some 44 members of the regiment deployed on operations to Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo.[13]

Operation TELIC (Iraq)

Y Squadron at the Duke of York's HQ, Chelsea, January 2003

In January 2003, A (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) and W (Westminster Dragoons) Squadrons were mobilised together with the Regimental Headquarters for Operation TELIC, the war in Iraq. The two squadrons were amalgamated with a number of augmentees from the other three squadrons of the Royal Yeomanry and from 160 Transport Regiment Royal Logistic Corps to form a much-enlarged "Y" Squadron comprising 116 personnel, which deployed as part of the Joint NBC Regiment. Despite being held at 180 days' notice for mobilisation, the Royal Yeomanry deployed to the operational theatre by 4 March 2003, three months after the Commmanding Officer had received a warning order and less than six weeks after those who mobilised had received their call-out notices. This was the first deployment of a formed TA unit (TA soldiers under TA command) for combat operations since the Suez crisis in 1956.[3]

During the warfighting phase, formed complete troops (an officer and 12 soldiers) of the Royal Yeomanry were attached to 16 Air Assault Brigade,[27] 7 Armoured Brigade (the Desert Rats) and 3 Commando Brigade for the invasion as NBC specialists. The remainder of the squadron had responsibility for NBC support to 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division’s rear area. The Regimental Headquarters was detached from 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division to the US 75th Exploitation Task Force and Coalition Force Land Component Command to act as the liaison between the UK and US NBC efforts throughout the theatre of operations. Once the war-fighting phase was over, Y Sqn reverted to being under the operational command of Commanding Officer Royal Yeomanry and undertook peace support operations to the north of Al-Qurnah following a relief-in-place with elements of 16 Air Assault Brigade.[3]

The Royal Yeomanry maintained a constant presence in Iraq from March 2003 until the end of Operation TELIC, including a substantial deployment on Op TELIC 4 of 53 members of the non-NBC squadrons to augment the Queen's Royal Lancers and 1st Battalion the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, serving principally as infantry but also in the armoured role.[28]

Operation HERRICK (Afghanistan)

From 2007 to 2014, the Royal Yeomanry also provided officers and soldiers for Operation HERRICK in Afghanistan,[22][29] including a deployment of seven soldiers on Operation HERRICK 7 (one of whom, Corporal James Dunsby, served as gunner in HRH Prince Harry's armoured fighting vehicle).[30]

Operation CABRIT (Poland and Estonia)

In 2018, the Royal Yeomanry undertook its first operational deployments with its paired regular regiment, the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, sending three officers and 11 soldiers on Operation CABRIT 3 and 4 to Poland as part of NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence.[1]

Recruitment

The Royal Yeomanry mainly recruits from Greater London, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Kent, Shropshire and Worcestershire.[31]

Equipment

Land Rover RWMIK

A static British Army WMIK on display.

The regiment's main equipment is the Land Rover RWMIK CVR(W) Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Wheeled); a light armoured vehicle, equipped with the General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) and the Browning M2 .50 Heavy Machine Gun (HMG), as well as individual BOWMAN digital battlefield communications systems and specialised surveillance optics, including thermal, night, infra-red, laser range finding and targeting equipment.[1]

Supacat Jackal

Supacat Jackal

In November 2018, the Royal Yeomanry acquired its first Supacat Jackal as part of a fielding plan which will see it gradually replace the Land Rover RWMIK by March 2020.[32]

Land Rover Wolf

The regiment is equipped with Land Rover Wolf for use by regimental and squadron headquarters as command vehicles and with the Land Rover battlefield ambulance.

MAN Support Vehicle

The backbone of the regiment's integral logistic support is provided by a fleet of MAN SVs from the RMMV TG MIL range of trucks.

Crew-served Weapons

The primary crew-served weapon system used by the Royal Yeomanry is the FN MAG 7.62 x 51mm belt-fed L7A2 General Purpose Machine Gun, either mounted on its vehicles or deployed dismounted. The GPMG has an effective range of 1800m when mounted and a cyclic rate of fire of 750 rounds per minute.

The regiment is also equipped with vehicle-mounted L1A1 12.7mm (.50) Heavy Machine Gun (HMG), an updated version of the M2 Browning. This weapon system can also be used dismounted or mounted. The HMG provides the vehicle commander with added capability at greater ranges (1500-2000m) when support from armoured vehicles is not available.

Personal Weapons

Each officer and soldier in the Royal Yeomanry is equipped with the L85A2 (SA80) rifle. The regiment also has an allocation of Glock 17 pistols.

Communications Equipment

The Royal Yeomanry is equipped with Bowman (communications system) VHF radios including Personal Role Radio, UK/PRC355 (5 W manpack), UK/VRC357 (16 W vehicle clip-in radio) and UK/VRC359 (50 W vehicle-mounted high-power radio). The regiment also uses the ComBAT Battlefield Information System Applications running over the Bowman infrastructure.

Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance Equipment

The Royal Yeomanry uses a range of specialised surveillance optics, including thermal, night, infra-red, laser range finding and targeting equipment.[1]

Organisation

The regiment currently consists of six squadrons, Regimental Headquarters and a military band:[1]

Battle honours

As a result of the Regiment's initial service during the Iraq war, in 2005 the Royal Yeomanry was awarded the theatre honour "Iraq 2003".[34] This is the first battle honour the regiment has won since its formation, and the first – so far the only – battle honour awarded to an Army Reserve regiment since the Second World War.[3]

The regimental guidon of the Royal Yeomanry, presented to the regiment on 7 May 2016, also bears a selection of the battle honours won by its antecedent regiments.[35]

Lineage

Lineage
The Royal Yeomanry
The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
The Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry The Kent Yeomanry The Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles (Duke of Connaught's Own)
The West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own)
The 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) The 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
The 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
The Shropshire Yeomanry The North Salopian Yeomanry
The South Salopian Yeomanry
The Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own) The Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own)
The Derbyshire Yeomanry
The Westminster Dragoons The Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons The Berkshire Yeomanry
The Westminster Dragoons (2nd County of London Yeomanry)
The Inns of Court & City Yeomanry

Order of precedence

For the purposes of parading, the Regiments of the British Army are listed according to an order of precedence. This is the order in which the various corps of the army parade, from right to left, with the unit at the extreme right being the most senior.

Preceded by British Army
Order of Precedence 		Succeeded by

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