Shoulder titles

[Riding shotgun]

Hello everyone

Can anyone help with a query please, I am trying to find out what brass shoulder titles were used by the Bedfordshire Yeomanry during WW1, i believe it was TY Bedford but can anyone confirm this please, i als wondered if anyone could tell me what the TY stood for, i can only guess at Territorial Yeomanry but in no way sure of this.

Thanks

Colin

[Old Owl]

Hi Colin,

Welcome to the Forum.

According to Westlake the Bedford Yeomanry had only three shoulder title variations: BIY (Bedford Imperial Yeomanry?); T/T/Bedford and Y/Bedford (Yeomanry/Bedford?)

Unfortunately he does not extend the precise meanings and although 1 and 3 are obvious, 2 is not quite so? Territorial/T?/Bedford. It may be blindingly obvious when you know!! but I expect someone will be along soon to clarify this.

Hope this helps?

Robert

[gordon92]

From Cox Military Badges of the British Empire 1914-1918 page 247:

Hope this helps.

[T8HANTS]

I wonder if T/T/Bedford is just a simple misprint for T/Y/=

[Old Owl]

I wonder if T/T/Bedford is just a simple misprint for T/Y/=

I think that it must be--it had me a little perplexed !!

[Riding shotgun]

Thanks for the replies everyone, i have been tearing my hair out over this, i had assumed incorrectly for some time that it was BIY but that is of course the Boer war Period, during WW2 they used RA as they were by then Royal Artillery.

Regards

Colin