Yeomanry's anniversary too

  

By coincidence, 2025 is a significant year not just for the loggerheads but for the Shropshire Yeomanry regiment. It is the 150th anniversary year of the North and South Shropshire Yeomanry. 
The anniversary is being celebrated with a small exhibition at St Mary’s, Shrewsbury town’s central church.

The Yeomanry badge has always carried loggerheads (as you’d expect), though the design can vary quite a bit. In the photo above, there are three versions of Yeomanry loggerheads!
(For other variants used by the Yeomanry, see Sharp Militaria and Helmeted Loggerheads).

The Shropshire Yeomanry were transmuted into the 75th and 76th (SY) Regiments Royal Artillery during WW2.

 A new book has now been published to celebrate 600 years of the loggerheads - click here to find out more.

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Helmet, swords and loggerheads

 
Surprisingly, not all Shropshire's military outfits adopted the loggerheads, but the Yeomanry Cavalry, one of the oldest, certainly did. 

In the official history of the regiment, written in 1953 by EW Gladstone, the first image in the book is of the unit's badge - which features the loggerheads (see pic right).  

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A new book has now been published to celebrate 600 years of the loggerheads - click here to find out more.

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Sharp militaria

 

A collector of loggerheads pieces is is best off looking at sales of militaria if s/he wants a quick purchase.  The Shropshire Yeomanry regiment didn't always feature the loggerheads in their identification but often enough. Yeomanry collar badges (see pic) are quire common in sales of militaria circles.
Their loggerheads tend to be sharp-eared variety.

Of course, you don't have to buy one to see one.  There are lots of Yeomanry badges at the Shropshire Soldiers Museum at Shrewsbury Castle.

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