Yeomanry
Both Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte made plans to invade ‘PERFIDIOUS ALBION’. As we know, however, they came to naught for very good reasons. Neither could get command of the Channel protected as...
View ArticleWhat's a Yeomanry Regiment Sarge?
It is very gratifying to find that Len Tutt’s ‘Portrait of a Young Officer’, which I extracted from his wartime, memoirs entitled ‘Gentlemen Soldiers’ and which our Editor, Major Swann, considered...
View ArticlePilgrimage to Tobruk, Sixty years after
The party arrived in Cairo in the early hours of an April day in 2001. We were met at the Airport by our Libyan guides and friends, led by Achmed Khalifa. He had with him two assistants and a Benghazi...
View ArticlePortrait of a young officer
When we joined the Essex Yeomanry from the Training Regiment he was just one of a number of 2nd Lieutenants. There always seemed to be an anxiety of them rushing hither and thither in their zeal to...
View ArticleMilitary Units of Essex (1)
Military Units of Essex (1) The 3rd (16th/44th Foot) Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment By George Newark In 1958, veteran soldiers of Essex heard with regret that after 217 years of loyal service,...
View ArticleWas the real Soames Forsyte an Essex Yeomanry officer?
Was the real Soames Forsyte an Essex Yeomanry officer? It is by now well known that the events fictionalised so memorably by John Galsworthy in his great Forsyte Saga were drawn, at any rate in part,...
View ArticleEssex Yeomanry Journal Index 1951-1984
Essex Yeomanry Journal Index 1951 -1984 The following index was prepared by Col S Foakes TD DL in order to aid research into EY History Subjects 1st Light Troop RA Crete 1941 - 1983 6th Essex...
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Harold Mugford VC
On 11th April 1917, during the advance from Arras, the 8th Cavalry Brigade was ordered to advance mounted, over open country to occupy high ground east and north east of Monchy-le-Preux, a key...
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Officers when EY was re-formed from the EIY in 1908
This extract from the London Gazette gives the names of all the officers when the Essex Yeomanry was re-formed from the Essex Imperial Yeomanry in 1908. The undermentioned offices, from the Essex...
View ArticleBattle at Frezenberg
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