Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry

Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry
Cap badge of the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry
Active1794 – 20 August 1920
Country Kingdom of Great Britain (1794–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1920)
Branch British Army
TypeYeomanry
Infantry
SizeRegiment
Three Regiments (First World War)
Peacetime HQMaidstone
Motto(s)"Liberty, Loyalty, Property"
EngagementsSouth Africa 1900–01
First World War
Gallipoli 1915
Egypt 1916–17
Palestine 1917–18
France and Flanders 1918

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 with the Royal East Kent (The Duke of Connaught's Own) Yeomanry (Mounted Rifles) to form the Kent Yeomanry in 1920.


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