The Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry was a British Army regiment formed in 1794. It served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. It amalgamated...
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The Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army founded in 1794 as the Dorsetshire Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry...
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Kent Yeomanry was amalgamated with 1/1st Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry at Sollum on 1 February 1917 and redesignated 10th (Royal East Kent and West Kent...
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'C' Squadron, Royal Yeomanry 'R' Battery, The London and Kent Regiment, Royal Artillery 'A' Company, 8th Battalion, the Queen's Regiment In 1969, the...
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Royal East Kent (The Duke of Connaught's Own) Yeomanry (Mounted Rifles) and West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own). For the Second World War it was expanded...
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three new RAC Yeomanry regiments (the Queen's Own Yeomanry, the Mercian Yeomanry and the Wessex Yeomanry) were raised and the Royal Yeomanry's name was shortened...
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Bertrand Stewart (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
solicitor in London and was also a military officer in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry, he fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War. In...
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Kent Yeomanry – descended from the Royal East Kent Yeomanry and the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry – to form the Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)...
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Hussars) Royal North Devon Yeomanry Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry West Somerset Yeomanry Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars...
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Hussars 215, West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own) 37, West Somerset Yeomanry 45, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars 161, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry 31, Lothians...
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West Kent Regiment Queen's Own Yeomanry Queen's Royal Hussars, see also Queen's Own Hussars Each division of the Royal Gurkha Rifles The Queen's Own Hussars...
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Chris. "Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 12 October 2012. Baker, Chris. "Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry". The Long...
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Own West Kent Yeomanry West Somerset Yeomanry Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars Montgomeryshire Yeomanry Lothians and Border Horse Lanarkshire Yeomanry (Queen's...
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Harry Payne (artist) (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry soldiers)
Hill in Kent where he was a part-time volunteer soldier, serving with the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry. In 1905 he received the Imperial Yeomanry Long...
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Yeomanry, 2/1st Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry, 2/1st Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, 2/1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, and 2/1st Essex Yeomanry. Three more regiments...
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Sir Samuel Scott, 6th Baronet (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
his commission, and was appointed a second-lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own) on 24 February 1897. Following the outbreak of the Second...
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Arthur Fulcher (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
Westminster school. He served for twenty years in the Yeomanry, for thirteen years in the West Kent Yeomanry, and seven years in the Suffolk Hussars, retiring...
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14th Mounted Brigade – with 2/1st Hertfordshire, 2/1st Queen's Own West Kent and 2/1st Essex Yeomanry – was posted to the new 1st Mounted Division (3rd Mounted...
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Royal West Kent Regiment to form the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, which was later merged, on 31 December 1966, with the Queen's Royal Surrey...
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Ralph Durand (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry soldiers)
thirty-eight years old in 1914, Durand volunteered and joined the West Kent Yeomanry as squadron cook. In early 1915, he gained a commission in the 22nd...
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William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
June 1847. On 12 May 1849, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry. He resigned in May 1852. On 2 August 1852, he was appointed a deputy...
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Victor Cazalet (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
later at the University of Oxford. He was commissioned into the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry in 1915 and reached the rank of Captain. He subsequently served...
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descended from the Royal East Kent Yeomanry and the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry – to form the Kent and County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters). On active...
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Thomas Brassey, 2nd Earl Brassey (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
his father chaired. Brassey was appointed a captain in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry on 19 January 1898. After the outbreak of the Second Boer War...
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Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
initially pursued a career in the British Army, serving in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry and eventually reaching the rank of captain. It was during his...
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Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
13th Hussars. He was promoted to colonel and commanded the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry in 1880. In 1854–1855, he served in Bulgaria and the...
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Francis Mildmay, 1st Baron Mildmay of Flete (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
and was ennobled. Mildmay held a commission in the West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own), a cavalry Yeomanry regiment, where he was first lieutenant, promoted...
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Henry Brassey, 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
Northamptonshire Yeomanry and in the West Kent Yeomanry. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire and for Kent, as High Sheriff of...
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Charles Mills, 2nd Baron Hillingdon (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood. He was a lieutenant in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry and a partner in the banking firm of Glyn, Mills & Co. In the...
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William Marshall Cazalet (category Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers)
Shipbourne, Kent. Cazalet was a wealthy landowner, with friends including Rudyard Kipling. He served as a Lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry, and...
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