North Somerset Yeomanry

North Somerset Yeomanry
Badge of the North Somerset Yeomanry
Active	1798–present
Country	Kingdom of Great Britain (1798–1800)  United Kingdom (1801–present)
Branch	British Army
Type	Yeomanry
Size	Regiment
Part of	4th Yeomanry Brigade 1st South Western Mounted Brigade 4th Cavalry Brigade Royal Corps of Signals Royal Armoured Corps
Engagements	Second Boer War First World War France and Flanders 1914–18 Second World War Syria 1941 North Africa 1942–43 Sicily 1943 Italy 1943–44 North-West Europe 1944–45
Battle honours	See battle honours below
Commanders
Honorary Colonel	Brigadier Nigel C. Beacom, QVRM, TD[1]
Notable commanders	Thomas Strangways Horner Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan

The North Somerset Yeomanry was a part-time cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1798 to 1967. It maintained order in Somerset in the days before organised police forces, and supplied volunteers to fight in the Second Boer War. It served on the Western Front in the First World War. At the outbreak of the Second World War, it continued to operate in the mounted role and then as a specialist signals unit. Postwar it joined the Royal Armoured Corps and later became infantry. Its lineage today is maintained by 93 (North Somerset Yeomanry) Squadron 39 (Skinners) Signal Regiment.