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Several British Army regiments have borne the title County of London Yeomanry (CLY). Most have been mounted, then armoured regiments. ==1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex, Duke of Cambridge's)== (詳細はBoer War, 1900–1901, and in World War I at Gallipoli, Macedonia and Palestine. The regiment was first founded in May 1797 as the Uxbridge Volunteer Cavalry becoming the Uxbridge Yeomanry Cavalry in 1798. It was disbanded in 1801. It was reformed in December 1830 as the Middlesex Yeomanry Cavalry, based at Harefield and West Drayton and later had a troop based in Brighton. Over the following years there were further name changes: Middlesex (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars) Yeomanry Cavalry (in 1884); Middlesex Imperial Yeomanry (Duke of Cambridge's Hussars) (17 April 1901, with four squadrons and a machine-gun section); 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex, Duke of Cambridge's) (1 April 1908) and transferred to the London Mounted Brigade in the Territorial Forces. Now in the Territorial Army, the regiment was transferred to the Royal Signals in 1920 as the 2nd Cavalry Divisional Signals (Middlesex Yeomanry); Mobile Divisional Signals (Middlesex Yeomanry) (1938); 1st Armoured Divisional Signals (Middlesex Yeomanry) (1939); 9th Armoured Brigade Signal Squadron (Middlesex Yeomanry) (1941). It returned to the Territorial Army on 1 January 1947 as 16th Airborne Divisional Signal Regiment (Middlesex Yeomanry); then as Middlesex Yeomanry Signal Regiment (44 Parachute Brigade Signal Squadron) (1 October 1956); 40th Signal Regiment (Middlesex Yeomanry) (44 Parachute Brigade Signal Squadron and 303 Signal Squadron) (1 September 1959); 47th Signal Regiment (Middlesex Yeomanry) (1961). The regiment was amalgamated with the 47th (London) Signal Regiment on 1 April 1967 to form 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, 31st (Greater London) Signal Regiment, Royal Signals; disbanded and immediately reconstituted in the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve. In 1995 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron came under command of the 39th (Skinners) Signal Regiment (Volunteers). In 2006 the squadron moved under the command of 71 (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment. The squadron took command of 831 Troop based at Southfields on 1 Oct 2009. 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron is the modern day iteration of the 1st County of London Yeomanry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「County of London Yeomanry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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