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Essex Yeomanry Museum
The Chelmsford Museum in Oaklands Park, Chelmsford is to be enlarged in order to provide space for a display depicting the County Town’s significant industrial past. As part of the project, the existing single storey annex which houses The Essex Regiment Museum will be demolished and replaced by a room on the first floor of the new extension to Oaklands House. It is also intended to provide an adjacent gallery for The Essex Yeomanry Collection which has until now never been on display.
The existing Essex Regiment Museum will be closed at the end of 2007 and the new displays are not expected to be on view to the public before the middle of 2009
Picture supplied by Caroline O'Neill
France 1914-1918 LtoR Howard Eve, Bert Tomkins, Percy Manning & Walter Wooling
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One Man's War by Ron Davies
Now on sale, available through Amazon, Tesco, Foyles, Waterstones and W H Smth. Read the synopsis here or go to Amazon. ISBN no: 978-0-7524-4517-5. You can also order it
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Latest
100th Anniversary of the TA.
As part of the TA100 events for 2008, a parade and service is planned for Saturday 4th October 2008 at Chelmsford Cathedral. It is to involve TA units in Essex and veterans. More details will follow during 2008.
Jan 08. WW1 War Diary and Appendix now complete
The WW1 war diary is now complete and can be accessed from the Histrory menu. Included is a nominal role of Officers and other ranks on detachment after the Regiment was broken up in April 1918. Each page can be searched using your browser's search keys.
Apr 07. World War 2 casualty list is now complete. WW2 Casualty List
Mar 07. Can you help with this picture? The Beatles used an Essex Yeomanry Drum during a promotion (Ringo Starr holding drum). The picture was taken on15th April 1964 at Les Ambassadeurs Club in London.
Feb 07. The complete casualty list from 1914 -1918 is now available. Information on how to search is available on the page.
Image Gallery updated.
New addition to the gallery. Tobruk and El Alamein cemeteries. Images provide by Col David Casstles.
Latest news continued . . .
The layout of this site now includes a section called Chronicles. This will be the repository for all short articles and historical content. In addition, we have reproduced some articles found in various publications. These can be found in a section call '...in the news'
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Memorabilia wanted.
Anyone wishing to donate Essex Yeomanry related items should contact the Chairman of the association via the contact link. We will be happy to consider any item.
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Historical Accuracy
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The Editor.
War Diary 1914 - 1918 The official War Diary. This is a fantastic historical document and can only be read online here. You may use the search facility on the page to find reference to dates, people and actions. Full War Diary and Appendix Short History
Short History of the EY Reproduced here by kind permission of Lt Cdr K Hook RN (Rtd). 2008 Journal Download The latest edition of the EYA Journal reproduced in full. Download the complete copy. Please note. This file may take a short while to load (4.0 Mb). Please go to the Download Pages for editions from 2001.
