Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry

Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry
Cap badge of the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry (c. 1914)
Active	1794 – 1802 1803 – 1814 1830 – 1967 1997 – present
Country	Kingdom of Great Britain (1794–1800)  United Kingdom (1801–present)
Branch	British Army
Role	Yeomanry (Second Boer War) Yeomanry (First World War) Artillery (Second World War)
Size	One Company (Second Boer War) Three Regiments (First World War) Two Regiments (Second World War) One Squadron (Current)
Engagements	French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars Coastal Defence 1803-05 Swing Riots Bristol Riots Second Boer War Battle of Doornkop Battle of Diamond Hill Capture of Pretoria Battle of Nooitgedacht Battle of Middelfontein First World War Gallipoli Campaign Landing at Suvla Bay Battle of Sari Bair Battle of Scimitar Hill Battle of Agagiya Sinai and Palestine Campaign First Battle of Gaza Second Battle of Gaza Third Battle of Gaza Battle of Beersheba Battle of Mughar Ridge Battle of Nebi Samwil Capture of Jerusalem Battle of Megiddo Capture of Damascus Second World War North West Europe Campaign Operation Express Operation Bluecoat (Mont Pinçon) Battle of Vernon Bridge Operation Market Garden
Commanders
Honorary Colonel	Lieutenant General Arundell D. Leakey, CMG, CVO, CBE[1]

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 in response to the growing threat of invasion during the Napoleonic wars. It gained its first royal association in 1833 as The Princess Victoria's Regiment of Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry, and its second, in 1843, as the Queen's Own Regiment of Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry.