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2ND COUNTY OF LONDON YEOMANRY (WESTMINSTER DRAGOONS) (45) [47]
2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons)
Boer War
South Africa 1902
The Great War
1914
Numbered as:
1st / 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons)
1915
Amalgamated in September with:
1st / 1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry
To form:
5th Yeomanry Regiment
Resumed separate status and original title in December
1918
Converted to:
F Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
Re-designated as:
104th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
1919
Disbanded
Battle Honours awarded to 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons):
Courtrai, France and Flanders 1918, Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Suez Canal,
Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917-18
1920
Reformed with change of arm to join the Tank Corps
To become:
4th (London) Armoured Car Company (Westminster Dragoons), Tank Corps
Re-designated as:
22nd (London) Armoured Car Company (Westminster Dragoons), Royal Tank Corps
1923
Re-designated as:
22nd (London) Armoured Car Company (Westminster Dragoons), Royal Tank Corps
1938
Expanded to become an Officer Training Unit
Designated as:
22nd Battalion (Westminster Dragoons), Royal Tank Corps
1939
Re-designated as:
22nd Battalion (Westminster Dragoons), Royal Tank Regiment
Re-designated as:
102nd Officer Cadet Training Unit
1940
Change of arm as an armoured Regiment of The Royal Armoured Corps and re-designated
as:
2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons), Royal Armoured Corps
WW2
Battle Honours awarded:
Normandy Landing, Villers Bocage, Venraij, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Roer, North-West
Europe 1944-45
1947
Reformed with no change of title
1951
Re-designated as:
The Westminster Dragoons ( 2nd County of London Yeomanry)
1961
Amalgamated with:
R (Berkshire Yeomanry) Battery, 299th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
To form:
The Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons, Royal Armoured Corps
1967
Reorganised and reduced to:
HQ (Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry
Regiment (Volunteers)
1969
The Berkshire Yeomanry component was transferred to:
71st Signal Regiment as:
94th (Berkshire Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals
leaving the existing squadron with the same title
1971
Re-designated as:
HQ (Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry
(Volunteers)
1983
Re-designated as:
HQ (Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry
2000
Re-designated as:
W (Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry
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