Warwickshire Yeomanry

Warwickshire Yeomanry
Warwickshire Yeomanry bit boss
Harness badge of the Warwickshire Yeomanry, c1880
Active1794–Present
Country Kingdom of Great Britain (1794–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1956)
Branch British Army
TypeYeomanry
SizeRegiment
Part of1st South Midland Mounted Brigade (First World War)
Royal Armoured Corps (Second World War)
EngagementsSecond Boer War
First World War
Gallipoli 1915
Egypt 1915–17
Palestine 1917–18
France and Flanders 1918

Second World War

Iraq 1941
Syria 1941
North Africa 1942
Italy 1944
Battle honoursSee battle honours below

The Warwickshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794, which served as cavalry and machine gunners in the First World War and as a cavalry and an armoured regiment in the Second World War, before being amalgamated into the Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry in 1956. The lineage is maintained by B (Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron, part of The Royal Yeomanry.


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