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4 unusual facts about Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry


Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

By 1803 there were three Yeomanry Regiments in the Buckinghamshire area collectively known as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd regiments of the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry.

In March 1794 the government of William Pitt the Younger passed the Volunteer Act in response to the threat of invasion by French revolutionary forces.

Following the Dunkirk evacuation the Regiment was based in Yorkshire, until in 1942 they were sent out to the Far East and attached to the 2nd Division, seeing service in India and Burma, including the Battle of the Arakan.

In September 1914 the Brigade was transferred to the 2nd Mounted Division and moved with them to Egypt, until August 1915 when they were dismounted and sent to Gallipoli.


Battle of Agagia

General Lukin’s force had two battalions of South African infantry, plus the Dorset Yeomanry, Bucks Hussars, Royal Scots and guns of the 1st Nottinghamshire Battery Royal Horse Artillery.


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