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NCY - Cheshire Yeomanry records - 1805-2018

1 - Cheshire Yeomanry 1797-1967

2 - Cheshire Yeomanry Post 1967

3 - Memorabilia

4 - Miscellanea

5 - Cheshire Yeomanry Association

6 - Reference Material

1 - Historical notes and Queries

2 - Photocopies and Transcripts

3 - Newscuttings

4 - Articles, Offprints, Pamphlets etc.

5 - Manuals

6 - Books

1 - Cannon, Richard: Historical Records of the British Army: The Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or The Carabineers (London). - 1837

2 - Sprot, A.: A Continuation of the Historical Records of the 6th Dragoon Guards; or The Carabiniers (Gale & Polden). - 1888

3 - Groves, J.Percy: “On Service” at home and abroad (Raphael Tuck & Sons) - [1890]

4 - Leary, Frederick: The Earl of Chester’s Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry 1797-1897 (Privately printed at the Ballantyne Press). - 1898

5 - Biddulph, John: The Nineteenth and Their Times (John Murray). - 1899

6 - Williams, G.T.: The Historical Records of the Eleventh Hussars Prince Albert’s Own (George Newnes Ltd.).Pasted inside front cover: letter from James J. Richardson, Marlborough Barracks, Dublin, sending this book as a gift to the Officers of the Cheshire Y - 1908

7 - Cooke, John H.: 5,000 Miles with the Cheshire Yeomanry in South Africa (Mackie & Co. Ltd.). - 1913-1914

8 - Wylly, H.C.: XVth (The King’s) Hussars 1759 to 1913 (Caxton Publishing Company Ltd.). - 1914

9 - Active Service Testament 1914-1915 (Scripture Gift Mission and Naval and Military Bible Society).Inside front cover: Lord Roberts’s Message. - 1914

10 - English-Arabic Conversational Dictionary (Hirschfeld Brothers). - [c.1918?]

11 - The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918 (The Swarthmore Press Ltd.).7th edition, reprinted with additions from The Year Illustrated. - [post 1918]

12 - Dane, Edmund: British Campaigns in the Nearer East 1914-1918: Vol. II The Tide of Victory (Hodder and Stoughton). - 1919

13 - Teichman, O.: The Diary of a Yeomanry M.O. (Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Italy) (T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.). - 1921

14 - Dudley Ward, C.H.: The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France (John Murray). - 1922

15 - Pomeroy, Ralph Legge: The Story of a Regiment of Horse being the Regimental History from 1685 to 1922 of the 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales’ Dragoon Guards (William Blackwood and Sons).

16 - Dudley Ward, C.H.: History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T.F.) 1914-1918 (Cardiff, Western Mail Limited). - 1927

17 - A Short History of the Seventh Queen’s Own Hussars from 1689 to 1732 (Gale & Polden, Ltd.). - 1932

18 - Newsletter of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. - 1944-1945

19 - Evans, Roger: The Story of the Fifth Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards together with a Short Account of Their Illustrious Parent Regiments the Fifth Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Dragoon Guards and the Sixth Inniskilling Dragoons (Gale & Polden Ltd.). - 1951

20 - Rogers, H.C.B.: The Mounted Troops of the British Army 1066-1945 (The Imperial Services Library Volume III) (Seeley Service & Co. Ltd.). - 1959

21 - Oatts, L.B.: I Serve Regimental History of the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards) (Jarrold and Sons Ltd.). - 1966

22 - Simkin, Rchard: British Yeomanry Uniforms (Frederick Muller). - 1971

23 - Verdin, Richard: The Cheshire (Earl of Chester’s) Yeomanry 1898-1967 (Willmer Brothers Ltd.). - 1971

24 - Bowling, A.H.: British Hussar Regiments 1805-1914 (Almark Publishing Co. Ltd.). - 1972

25 - Ansell, Mike: Soldier On (Peter Davies). - 1973

26 - Taprell Dorling, H.: Ribbons and Medals (George Philip & Son Ltd.). - 1974

27 - Anglesey, Marquess of: A History of the British Cavalry 1816 to 1919 (Leo Cooper in association with Secker & Warburg). - 1975-1986

28 - Neatherway, V.A.: Return to the Battlefields (Paceprint). - 1978

29 - Blacker, Cecil, and H.G Woods: Change and Challenge The Story of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 1928-1978 together with a short account of their parent regiments the 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Dragoon Guards and the 6th Inniskilling Drag - 1978

30 - Franks, Henry: Leaves from a Soldier’s Note Book (reprint, Mitre Publications).First published 1904. - 1979

31 - Tylden, G.: Horses and Saddlery An account of the animals used by the British and Commonwealth Armies from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day with a description of their Equipment (reprint, J.A. Allen & Company in association with the Army Museums - 1980

32 - The History and Traditions of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. - [post 1981]

33 - Limb, Sue, and Patrick Cordingley: Captain Oates Soldier and Explorer (B.T. Batsford Ltd.). - 1982

34 - Mileham, P.J.R.: The Yeomanry Regiments A Pictorial History (Spellmount Ltd.). - 1985

35 - Smith, R.J. and R.G. Harris: The Yeomanry Force at the 1911 Coronation (The Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force 1794-1914 Number 10) (Picton Publishing Ltd.). - 1988

36 - Boardman, C.J.: Tracks in Europe (City Press Services). - 1990

37 - Yeomanry Drum Banners and Mounted Bands (The Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force 1794-1914 Number 14) (Picton Publishing Ltd.). - 1991

38 - British Army Review Number 100.Includes article ‘Syria: The Last British Cavalry Action – Part 2’ by Denis C. Bateman. For Part 1 see CY 19/57. - 1992

39 - Athawes, Peter D.: Yeomanry Wars The history of the Yeomanry, Volunteer and Volunteer Association Cavalry: A Civilian Tradition from 1794 (Scottish Cultural Press). - 1994

40 - Warby, John: The 25 Pounders . . . from Egypt to Borneo Campaigns in Syria, Kumusi River, Salamaua, Lae, Frinschhafen and Balikpapan (2/6th Field Regiment Association). - 1995

41 - Ramsbottom, Roy F.: Marching as to War The Story of the Egerton Twins of Oulton Park. - 2000

42 - Ripley, Howard, and Denis Armanin: Yeomanry Buttons 1830-2000 (The Military Historical Society Special Number 2005) (Arrow Press). - 2005

43 - Armour 2007 The Journal of The Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps.Includes article on the Queen’s Own Yeomanry. Back cover missing. - 2007

44 - The Crown and Coronet The Regimental Journal of The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry Vol.3, No.1.Includes article on C (Cheshire Yeomanry) Squadron. - 2007

45 - Stockport & District Heritage Vol.6 No.10.Includes article ‘Comrades and Camels A Stocksport man in the Great War’ by Martin Wood, relating to Cheshire Yeoman Joseph Mellor. - 2008

46 - Carman, W.Y.: Headdresses of the British Army: Yeomanry (W.Y. Carman).Pasted inside: letter from W.Y. Carman to Bill Spiegelberg to accompany the gift of his book. - 1970

47 - The War Diary of Major J.E.K. Rae M.C., T.D. from 1939 to 1946 (Rubell Print Ltd, Bunbury). - Undated

7 - Newsletters