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3RD COUNTY OF LONDON YEOMANRY (SHARPSHOOTERS) (46) [48]

1908
3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) (46) [48]
Boer War
South Africa 1900-02
The Great War
1914
Numbered as:
1st / 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
1915
Amalgamated with:
1st / 1st City of London Yeomanry
and
1st / 1st County of London Yeomanry
To form:
4th London Regiment of Yeomanry
Resumed separate status and original title in December
1918
Converted with City of London Yeomanry to be part of:
E Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
Re-designated as:
103rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
1919
Disembodied
Battle Honours awarded to 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters):
Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1918, Macedonia 1916-17, Suvla, Scimitar Hill,
Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-16, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Palestine 1917-18
1920
Reformed with change of arm to become:
5th Armoured Car Company, Tank Corps
Re-designated as:
23rd (London) Armoured Car Company, Tank Corps
1923
Re-designated as:
23rd (London) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps
1939
On duplication of the Territorial Army, two units raised and transferred to the Royal
Armoured Corps and re-designated as:
3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), Royal Armoured Corps
and
4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), Royal Armoured Corps
1944
Both units amalgamated to form:
3rd / 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), Royal Armoured Corps
1945
Suspended animation
WW2
Battle Honours awarded to 3rd and 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters):
Villers Bocage, Odon, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Bourguebus Ridge, Falaise, Lower Maas, Rhineland, Hochwald, Rhine, Aller, North-West Europe 1944-45, Tobruk 1941, Gubi, Gabr Saleh, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Chor es Sufan, Gazala, Cauldron, Hagiag er Raml, Mersa Matruh, Minqar Qaim, Defence of Alamein Line, Deir el Shein, Ruweisat, Point 93, Ruweisat Ridge, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Lentini, Simeto Bridgehead, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Sangro, Fossacesia, Volturno Crossing, Italy 1943
1947
Reconstructed as an armoured Regiment with former title:
3rd / 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), Royal Armoured Corps
1961
Amalgamated with:
297th (Kent Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
[formerly: 97th (Kent Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery
Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles (The Duke of Connaught's Own)
West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own)]
To form:
The Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
1967
Reconstructed as:
C (Kent and County of London Yeomanry) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry
Regiment (Volunteers)
1969
Reconstructed to form in addition:
HQ ( 265th London and Kent) Signal Squadron, 71st Signal Regiment (Volunteers), Royal
Corps of Signals
and
R (Kent and County of London Yeomanry) Battery, The London and Kent Regiment,
Royal Artillery (Territorials)
and
A Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Company, 8th (Territorial)
Battalion, The Queen's Regiment (West Kent)
1971
Yeomanry squadron re-designated as:
C (Kent and County of London) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry (Volunteers)
Artillery and Territorial units disbanded
1974
Signal Squadron change of title to:
265th (Kent and Sharpshooter Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, 71st (Yeomanry) Signal
Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals (Volunteers)
1975
Yeomanry Squadron re-designated as:
C (Kent and Sharpshooters) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry
1985
Signal Squadron change of title to:
265th (Kent and County of London Yeomanry) Signal Squadron (Sharpshooters),
71st (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals
1987
Signal Squadron also formed:
HQ (Kent and County of London Yeomanry) Squadron, 71st (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment,
Royal Corps of Signals
2006
HQ and 265th Squadron amalgamated to form:
265th (Kent and County of London) Support Squadron (Sharpshooters),
71st (City of London) Yeomanry Signal Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals
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