The Royal Wessex Yeomanry
Active	1 April 1971-
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Territorial Army
Type	Yeomanry
Role	Armour Replacement
Size	One regiment
Part of	Royal Armoured Corps
Garrison/HQ	A Squadron - Bovington B Squadron - Salisbury C Squadron - Cirencester D Squadron - Barnstaple
Commanders
Royal Honorary Colonel	HRH The Earl of Wessex KG KCVO ADC(P)
Honorary Colonel	Major General Arthur George Denaro, CBE

The Royal Wessex Yeomanry is an armoured regiment of the British Territorial Army consisting of four squadrons, each of which bears the cap badge of an old yeomanry regiment:

• A (Dorset Yeomanry) Squadron
• B (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Squadron
• C (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) Squadron
• D (Royal Devon Yeomanry) Squadron

The Royal Wessex Yeomanry, which was formed in 1971, currently serves two roles; the Dorset Yeomanry serves as an infrastructure and training squadron for the armour replacement role, while the other three squadrons are operational as armour replacements on the Challenger 2 tank.

Unusually, B Sqn is the senior of the four squadrons of the regiment. This is because the RWY is the senior Yeomanry regiment in the Yeomanry Order of Precedence, having been raised in 1794. It is not designated as A Sqn (which would be the usual practice) because there is an A (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Sqn of the Royal Yeomanry with which it could be confused.

HRH Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, is the Royal Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.

[edit] Honorary Colonels

• 1989–1992: Sir John Acland ^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site

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