End of an era.

[GriffMJ]

Hi All

2022 appears to be the year that the Yeomanry Squadrons lay up their Guidons and assume the Regimental identity of the new Cap badge. The LDYPAO will be laying up the Guidon on the 14th of May this year...... a sad day.

[cbuehler]

Please explain. Does this mean that the Yeomanry will disappear into something else and what cap badge will that be?

CB

[GriffMJ]

Originally Posted by cbuehler

Please explain. Does this mean that the Yeomanry will disappear into something else and what cap badge will that be?

CB

The Royal Yeomanry. A Guidon is the identifier of the Regiment..... each Squadron was a reduced Regiment. Once the Guidon is gone (layed up) ..... the old Regiment passes. There will be no new Guidon with the badge, and battle honours, of the old Regiment (The LDYPAO).

[3dg]

[Luke H]

Originally Posted by GriffMJ

Once the Guidon is gone (layed up) ..... the old Regiment passes.

Quite frankly I think that happened a very long time ago in reality. An amalgam of 13 (I think) different Yeomanry as they were styled in 1914. The Guidons of those antecedents with far more history and battle honours are long laid up.

Nonetheless it is still unfortunate.

Sadly I think in my lifetime it will end with each of the Home Nations having one Regiment plus The Guards. Chancellors and budgets destroy more regiments than wars.

[cbuehler]

While I acknowledge the reasons, it is nonetheless a shame. The Army's link to it's history is already very tenuous at best.

CB

[Restrikes-ok]

But the Yeomanry Squadrons are still keeping their own collar badges ? It used to be squadron buttons too in my day

[Wmr-RHB]

Originally Posted by Luke H

... of 13 (I think) different Yeomanry as they were styled in 1914.

More then 50 of them.

[Luke H]

Originally Posted by Wmr-RHB

More then 50 of them.

Indeed but they all didn’t go into ‘The Royal Yeomanry’ which I was replying to.