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) |
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| Commanders | |
| Honorary Colonel | Lieutenant General Arundell D. Leakey, CMG, CVO, CBE |
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.