Yeomanry

As Yeomanry is called territorial associations of the British cavalry whose teams primarily from Yeomen recruited. The officers provided nobility and the bourgeoisie. The Yeomanry was set up as a militia-like free corps in the coalition wars in view of the danger of a French invasion . In the 19th century they were initially only used domestically, where they proved to be a reliable troop in civil unrest due to the class affiliation of their members. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Yeomanry was included in the army reforms as Landwehr cavalry. The social prestige could be compared with that of the German one-year volunteers . In the Second Boer War , the Yeomanry was first used outside of the mother country. Today the Yeomanry represents in the British Territorial Forces a. a. several tank regiments and a tank reconnaissance regiment . As a result of numerous restructuring, however, British territorial units with traditional Yeomanry names also function as infantry, technical troops, etc. It is no longer possible to identify specific features of the recruits' social background.

See also

• Yeoman Warders
• Yeomen of the Guard

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• Yeoman im Meyers from 1837
• Yeomanry . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 19 . Altenburg 1865, p. 468 ( zeno.org ).