Catalogue description Records of volunteer, territorial, auxiliary and reserve military units raised in Hertfordshire

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION p2

INDEX pp3-4

CATALOGUE

1 MILITIA AND VOLUNTEER INFANTRY pp5-16

Volunteer force pp5-9

Territorial force pp9-11

Territorial Army pp11-16

Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve p16

2 YEOMANRY, VOLUNTEER CAVALRY AND INFANTRY

Yeomanry and Volunteer Cavalry pp17-22

Territorial Force pp22-32

Territorial Army pp32-41

Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve pp41-42

3 OTHER VOLUNTEER UNITS

4 AUXILIARY FORCES

Voluntary Aid Organisation p43

Auxiliary Territorial Service p44

Royal Army Pay Corps p44

Local Defence Volunteers pp44-45

Home Guard pp45-52

Army Cadet Force p52

Air Training Corps p53

5 REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION pp53-56

6 REGULAR ARMY UNITS p56

INTRODUCTION

The records which make up this collection were passed to this office by Lieutenant Colonel J D Sainsbury on behalf of various organisations and individuals (see 'Note on provenance'). They relate mainly to volunteer, territorial, auxiliary and reserve military units raised in Hertfordshire between 1663 and 1994. The Histories of these forces are succinctly described in Lieutenant Colonel Sainsbury's Hertfordshire Soldiers (Hertfordshire Local History Council, 1969) which has been extensively consulted in preparing this catalogue and a copy of which is available in the Record Office's library, together with a number of other publications relating to this county's military history, compiled by Lieutenant Colonel Sainsbury and others.

Note on copyright

The copyright in the materials (particularly in the illustrations) in this collection should not be presumed in all instances to belong to the owner or depositor of the records. Attention is particularly drawn to D/EYo/1/72 (copyright of Lord Salisbury, Hatfield House), D/EYo/2/156 (copyright of Commonwealth War Graves Commission) and the comments on provenance reproduction rights in the indexes accompanying D/EYo/2/79, 2/81, 2/87 and 2/94.

passed to the Record Office, on the terms outlined within, by Secretary and later Chairman of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Trust, between July 1967 and May 1996

Official accessions 106, 107, 109, 117, 118 and 125; private accessions 1156, 1397, 1874, 1961, 2410, 2532, 2533, 2872, 2876, 2924, 2927, 2933, 2943, 2944, 3086, 3112 and 3135

Note on provenance

The terms on which the records in this collection have been passed to the County Record Office vary in accordance to their provenance. These arrangements are described in more Detail in the Record Office's depositors' correspondence, but may be summarised as follows:

Presented to the Record Office by the Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Historical Trust: D/EYo1/2, 1/4, 1/5, 1/7, 1/11, 1/14-15, 1/17-27, 1/3, 1/40, 1/51-54, 1/56-57, 1/59, 1/65, 1/70-73; D/Eyo/2/1-7, 2/9-21, 2/23-24, 2/26-34, 2/37-42, 2/4-59, 2/61, 2/65-67, 2/69, 2/70-71, 2/75-162, 2/164-167, 2/169-171; D/EYo/3/3; D/EYo/4/2-3, 4/7, 4/12, 4/17, 4/19-21, 4/25-35, 4/37-44; D/Eyo/5/8, 5/10, 5/12-13, 5/15; D/EYo/6/1

On loan from the Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery Historical Trust: D/EYo/2/42-43, 2/60, 2/68, 2/72-74

Presented to the Record Office by the Hertfordshire Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association: D/EYo/1/41; D/EYo/3/1-2; D/EYo/4/1, 4/4, 4/22-24; D/EYo/5/2-7, 5/9, 5/11

Presented to the Record Office by various donors [for detail of donors see Record Office depositor's correspondence file under J D Sainsbury]: D/EYo/1/1, 1/3, 1/6, 1/8-10, 1/12-13, 1/16, 1/28-34, 1/36-39, 1/42-50, 1/55, 1/58, 1/60-64, 1/66-69; D/EYo/2/8, 2/163, 2/168, 2/172-176; D/EYo/4/5-6, 4/8-11, 4/13-16, 4/18, 4/36; D/EYo/5/1, 5/14-15

• Hertfordshire
• Armed Forces

INDEX

Volunteer Force (to 1908)

Ashridge Troop see Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Volunteer Cavalry

Dacorum Troop see Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry

Northern Troop see Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Volunteer Cavalry

Northern Troop see Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry

Hertfordshire Imperial Yeomanry p 19

Hertfordshire Local Militia p 7

Hertfordshire Militia p 5

Hertfordshire Rifle Volunteers p 7

Hertfordshire Volunteers p 6

Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Volunteer Cavalry: Ashridge Troop p 17

Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Volunteer Cavalry: Northern Troop p 17

Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry p 18

Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry: Dacorum Troop p 20

Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry: Northern Troop p 20

South Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry p 17

1st Hertfordshire Light Horse Volunteers p 21

1st (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment - see also off Acc 673 p 8

2nd (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment p 8

4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (Hertfordshire Militia) p 5

42nd (Hertfordshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry p 20

Miscellaneous (Yeomanry Cavalry) p 22

Territorial and Volunteer Forces (1908 onwards)

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment p 16

Hertfordshire Yeomanry p 22

1st Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment p 15

1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment pp 9 and 11-15

2nd Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment p 15

4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (Hertfordshire Militia) p 11

4th East Anglian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery p 31

8th (Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire) Battalion Mobile Defence Corps p 43

79th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery p 37

86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Brigade/Field Brigade/Field Regiment, Royal Field Artillery/Royal Artillery p 32

135th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery p 38

162 Independent Infantry Brigade Group Provost Unit, Royal Military Police p 42

191st (Hertfordshire and Essex Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery p 39

201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Medium Battery, Royal Artillery p 41

286th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field/Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery p 35

286th (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery p 36

334 Anti-Aircraft Company/Searchlight Battery, Royal Engineers/Royal Artillery p 40

479th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery p 38

Miscellaneous (Yeomanry and Artillery) p 40

Auxiliary Forces

Air Training Corps see Hertfordshire Wing Air Training Corps

Army Cadet Force see Hertfordshire Army Cadet Force

Auxiliary Territorial Service see Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Unit, Auxiliary Territorial Service

Barnet Detachment Royal Army Pay Corps p 44

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Unit, Auxiliary Territorial Service p 44

Cambridgeshire Home Guard p 50

Hertfordshire Army Cadet Force p 52

Hertfordshire Battalion Local Defence Volunteers p 44

Hertfordshire Home Guard p 45

Hertfordshire Voluntary Aid Organisation p 43

Hertfordshire Wing Air Training Corps p 53

Home Guard see Cambridgeshire Home Guard, Hertfordshire Home Guard, London County Council Battalion Home Guard, LNER and London Passenger Transport Board Home Guard, Middlesex Home Guard and Miscellaneous (Home Guard)

Local Defence Volunteers see Hertfordshire Local Defence Volunteers

London County Council Battalion Home Guard p 51

London and North Eastern Railway and London Passenger Transport Board Home Guard p 52

Middlesex Home Guard p 50

Miscellaneous (Home Guard) p 52

Royal Army Pay Corps see Barnet Detachment Royal Army Pay Corps

Voluntary Aid Organisation see Hertfordshire Voluntary Aid Organisation

Regional Administration

Hertfordshire Territorial Force Association/ Territorial Army Association/Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association/County Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserves Association p 53

Regular Army

49th (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot p 56

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