Second World War The South Nottinghamshire Hussars is a unit of the British Army formed as volunteer cavalry in 1794.

[1] The Yeomanry was not intended to serve overseas, but due to the string of defeats during Black Week in December 1899, the British government realized they were going to need more troops than just the regular army.

The men and horses of 12th Company left Liverpool on 28 January 1900, sailed to South Africa on Winifredian, and reached Cape Town on 20 February.

[9] It was later numbered as the 100th (Warwickshire and South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Machine Gun Corps.

In April 1939, as part of the general doubling of the TA following the Munich Crisis, the 107th (SNHY) formed 150th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regiment, RHA, as a duplicate from a cadre of 107th and 210 Battery of a local RA Unit, and a Searchlight battery of the Royal Engineers.

[1][17][18] At the start of the war, the 107 Royal Horse Artillery (South Notts Hussars Yeomanry), which was part of Northern Command, consisted of two batteries, the 425th and the 426th, each with 8 Ordnance QF 18-pounder field guns.

The regiment later served at Mersa Matruh, Egypt, the Suez Canal, Tobruk, Tmimi, the Nile Delta, Sidi Bishr (Alexandria) and Beni Yusef.

[20] In April 1942, the regiment was redesignated as the 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry) Field Regt RHA (by which time it had gained a third battery, the 520th).

[22] The battery served with the 7th Medium Regiment RA, as part of the 8th Army, in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.

[24] In June 1940, it was redesignated as the 150th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA.

The recce party of the regiment landed in France on 7 June 1944 and the guns arrived two days later.

[25] 150th (SNH Yeo) Regiment RA was disbanded in November 1944, owing to a lack of Infantry in the British Army, but an excess of gunners without guns.

Latterly it formed part of 100th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery but was placed in suspended animation under Army 2020.

[1][17][18][27][28] In January 2018, the unit was raised again as C (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Troop, 210 (Staffordshire) Battery, of 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment, RA.