West Somerset Yeomanry

West Somerset Yeomanry
ActiveJune 1794–9 November 1988
2014–Present
Country Kingdom of Great Britain (1794–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1988)
Branch British Army
TypeYeomanry
SizeRegiment
Part ofBoer War
Imperial Yeomanry
World War I
Yeomanry
Infantry
World War II
Royal Artillery
Garrison/HQTaunton
EngagementsBoer War
South Africa 1900–01

World War I

Gallipoli 1915
Egypt 1916–17
Palestine 1917–18
France and Flanders 1918

World War II

North-West Europe 1944–45

The West Somerset Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. First raised in 1794, it participated in the Second Boer War and World War I before being converted to an artillery regiment. It served in World War II (as two field artillery regiments). Post-war it was gradually reduced in strength until the yeomanry lineage of the successor unit was discontinued on 9 November 1988.