also known as the Queen's Own Royal Regiment

The regiment was formed on the creation of the Territorial Force in April 1908 and placed under orders of the North Midland Mounted Brigade. It was headquartered at Bailey Street in Stafford with the squadrons being headquartered as follows:

A Sqn: Walsall (with drill stations at West Bromwich, Tamworth, Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield)
B Sqn: Stoke-on-Trent (Stafford, Leek, Cannock and Newcastle-under-Lyme)
C Sqn: Burton-on-Trent (Uttoxeter)
D Sqn: Wolverhampton (Himley).

The Staffordshire Yeomanry (almost certainly C Squadron) preparing to depart from Burton-on-Trent.
Photo courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com

1/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry

This is the original, 'first line' regiment
August 1914 : moved with the brigade to Diss (Norfolk) and placed under orders of 1st Mounted Division.
27 October 1915 : brigade embarked at Southampton for Salonika. En route, the destination was altered and by the end of November the regiment had arrived at Cairo. Remained in Egypt/Palestine theatre until May 1918.
April 1916: brigade renamed 22nd Mounted Brigade and under orders of Western Frontier Force.
February 1917: brigade under orders of Anzac Mounted Division.
July 1917: brigade under orders of Yeomanry Mounted Division.
April 1918 : Yeomanry Mounted Division renamed 1st Mounted Division.
July 1918 : formation names changed to 12th Cavalry Brigade and 4th Cavalry Division.

2/1st

Formed as a Second-Line regiment in September 1914 and remained at home throughout the war.
Under orders of 2/1st North Midland Mounted Brigade from january 1915.
October 1915 : moved with the brigade to Norfolk and placed under orders of 1st Mounted Division, replacing 1/1st North Midland Mounted Brigade when it left for Salonika.
April 1916 : brigade renamed 3rd Mounted Brigade.
July 1916: at Holt. Converted into a cyclist unit, under orders of 3rd Cyclist Brigade in 1st Cyclist Division.
November 1916: became a mounted unit again, at Bishop's Stortford; brigade renamed 2nd Mounted Brigade. Under orders of a new 1st Mounted Brigade (formerly 3rd and 2/2nd Mounted Divisions).
By May 1917: moved to Leybourne in Kent.
August 1917: converted into a cyclist unit, under orders of 12th Cyclist Brigade in Cyclist Division. Moved to Tonbridge.
July 1918: moved to Canterbury and then remained there..

3/1st

Formed as a Third-Line training unit in 1915.
1916: affiliated to 12th Reserve Cavalry Regiment at Aldershot.
Early 1917: absorbed into 3rd Reserve Cavalry Regiment at the Curragh.

Men who served with the Yeomanry can be researched in exactly the same way as, for example, infantrymen.
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In the 1917 renumbering of the Territorials, the Staffordshire Yeomanry issued numbers from the block 300001-305000. Corps of Hussars. (Note: men of North Midland Mounted Brigade Signal Troop of the Royal Engineers were also given numbers from this block).

This page is in memory of Private 300625 Gordon Charles Kennelly, my grandmothers fiance, killed in action in Palestine on 28 November 1917.