The Scottish Yeomanry (SCOTS YEO) was a Yeomanry Regiment of the British Territorial Army formed in 1992. It was disbanded in 1999.
7-494: The Scottish Yeomanry was raised on 1 November 1992 as a result of Options for Change with headquarters at Inchdrewer House, Colinton Road, Edinburgh by transfer and resuscitation of old regiments as squadrons. The regiment consisted of a headquarters and three sabre squadrons : On 1 July 1999, following the Strategic Defence Review , elements were of the regiment ("A" and "C" Squadrons) were transferred to
14-659: The Queen's Own Yeomanry . "B" Squadron was re-roled to become 52 Squadron of 32 Signal Regiment and HQ Squadron and regimental headquarters disbanded. The Scottish Yeomanry wore a grey beret of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards bearing a cap badge of the regiment consisting of the Lion Rampant of Scotland upon crossed lances under the Scottish Crown . The officers and men of the regiment wore
21-1129: The Soviet Armed Forces , with the Royal Marines in Scandinavia , the Royal Air Force (RAF) in West Germany and over the North Sea , the Royal Navy in the Norwegian Sea and North Atlantic , and the British Army in Germany . With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact occurring between 1989 and 1991, the threat of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe fell away. While
28-733: The United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation and its field force, the Royal Observer Corps (a part-time volunteer branch of the RAF), both disbanded between September 1991 and December 1995. Overall the Royal Armoured Corps was a merger of 18 regiments, this was achieved by the formation of 10 new regiments through amalgamations and new formations. Bands Regulars Territorial Army Regulars Territorial Army RAF Germany itself
35-758: The Duke of Atholl's Tartan, Murray of Atholl, in various forms of dress. The regimental stable belt which was adopted was a reversed version of the Ayrshire Yeomanry belt. This looked exactly like the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars ' belt. Options for Change Options for Change was a restructuring of the British Armed Forces in summer 1990 after the end of the Cold War . Until this point, UK military strategy had been almost entirely focused on defending Western Europe against
42-457: The restructuring was criticised by several British politicians, it was an exercise mirrored by governments in almost every major Western military power, reflecting the so-called peace dividend . Total manpower was cut by approximately 18 per cent to around 255,000 (120,000 army; 60,000 navy; 75,000 air force). Other casualties of the restructuring were the UK's nuclear civil defence organisations –
49-505: Was disbanded on 1 April 1993, being downgraded to group-level and becoming No. 2 Group of Strike Command. A dramatisation of the effects that Options for Change had on the ordinary men and women serving in the armed forces came in the ITV series Soldier Soldier . The fictional infantry regiment portrayed in the series, the King's Fusiliers, was one of those selected for amalgamation. It showed
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