Yeoman Soldiers - The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry 1795-1920
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“This book tells of the Raising of the Regiment in 1795, its early days quelling riots and its part in the South African War. Told through the letters and diaries of those who took part it relates how the Yeomen dismounted, landed at Gallipoli. After the evacuation, reunited with their horses and armed with sabres they became part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, which between 1916 and 1918 drove the Turks back from the banks of the Suez Canal to Aleppo, covering a distance of some 1000 miles.”
With Frank Fox’s 1923 book covering the some of the same ground being long out of print, John Lewis’s 2008 book fills a gap in the story of the Yeomanry Cavalry that has has been left open for far too long. Primarily concerned with the RGHY in the First World War, and drawing heavily upon several previously unpublished personal accounts, “Yeoman Soldiers” also includes a chapter on the first hundred years of the regiment and its antecedents, and another chapter on the Regiment’s experiences during the Boer War 1899-1902.
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