This post will look at numbering in the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry between 1908 and 1914.
The regiment saw no need to begin a new regimental number series when it became the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry in 1908 and instead continued with the number series that had been in uses when it was the Montgomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry.
By 1914 the regiment was headquartered at Welshpool with its four squadrons disposed as follows:
A Squadron: Llanfyllin
B Squadron: Welshpool
C Squadron: Newtown
D Squadron: Llandindrod Wells
The regiment formed part of the 1st South Wales Mounted Brigade which was administered from Pembroke.
1140 joined on 27th May 1908
1639 joined on 26th April 1909
1700 joined on 9th March 1910
1798 joined on 23rd May 1911
1843 joined on 13th February 1912
1911 joined on 20th February 1913
2059 joined on 21st March1914
2276 joined on 25th August 1914
2360 joined on 7th September 1914
2708 joined on 12th October 1914
Two reserve units, the 2/1st and 3/1st, were formed during the First World War and both drew their numbers from the same series above.
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I've come across a grandfather's cousin W. T. Edwards Llanyblodwel 2833 Mont Yeo, later trans to 25th RWF. Any info or pointers appreciated.
ReplyDeleteHe was a corporal, later 355346 with the 25th RWF. A single page survives for this man which shows he was admitted to the 20th General Hospital at Camiers on 28th August 1918 suffering from Trench Fever.
ReplyDeleteHe would probably warrant further research although no other service record papers appears to survive.
Paul
Though I meant 2883 rather than 2833 you've got the correct one probably A Sqn Llanfyllin. Thanks
ReplyDeleteHow do I find out if my Great uncles where in the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry I only have one pic of each of them in uniform and believe they where both around Knighton at the 1911 census?
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Charles Albert Tomkins b about 1890
Richard Francis (Frank) Tomkins b about 1895
Thanks linda
Have you checked the medal index cards for the Frist World War, or the service/pension records for that matter?
ReplyDeleteMy Grandfather was in the Montgomeryshire yeomanry during the First World War he was from Clatter near Newtown so he would have probably been in the Newtown regiment but maybe Welshpool his name was Jack Jones he did go to Egypt as we have a flag that’s mounted in a frame with photos his medals and a small bottle of water in a kind of flask from the river Jordan it says and it’s to christen his future children. He survived the war and was in the home guard during the Second World War he married a girl from Berriew after the 1st world war called gwennie Benyon they lived in castle caerinion until he died of an operation to cure his thyroid gland I m not sure the year he died but not long after the semiconductor world war
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