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Page created 1 November 2000. Corrected and updated 13.06.2006
 
 
The Queens' Own
Worcestershire Hussars
 
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
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  Titles and Lineage English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
1794.09.14 independent troop
1827 disbanded
1831.05.25 Worcestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
re-formed with HQ at Worcester and nine troops
1837.12.09 The Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry
(named for Queen Victoria)
1888 The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars
1893.04.01 troops reorganised in squadrons
1900 sponsored 16th and 102nd Coys, 5th Bn, Imperial Yeomanry
1901.04.17 Worcestershire Imperial Yeomanry (The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars)
reorganised in four sqns and MG sec
1908.04.01 Worcestershire Yeomanry (The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars)
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Worcester
 
  • A Squadron at Kidderminster (dets at Bewdley, Dudley, Witley)
  • B Squadron at Camp Hill (dets at Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Redditch, King's Heath)
  • C Squadron at Malvern (dets at Upton-on-Severn, Leigh Sinton, Ledbury)
  • D Squadron at Worcester (dets at Droitwich, Pershore)
1920.02.07 reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Worcester
1922.04.18

397 (Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Yeomanry) Battery
at Worcester

 } 100th (Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Brigade, RFA
398 (Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Yeomanry) Battery
at King's Heath, Birmingham
  amalgamated with Oxfordshire Yeomanry and converted to artillery (see Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry for regimental changes 1922-1938)
1924? 397 Bty moved to Kidderminster
1938.11.28

209 (Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Yeomanry) Battery
at Kidderminster

 } 53rd (Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, RA
HQ at Kidderminster
210 (Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Yeomanry) Battery
at King's Heath, Birmingham
1939.02? 53rd (Worcestershire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, RA
Oxfordshire Yeomanry separated and Worcestershire element expanded
 
  • 209 Battery
  • 210 Battery
  • 211 Battery
  • 212 Battery
1943.11.03 53rd Airlanding Light Regiment, RA (Worcestershire Yeomanry)
1947.01.01 300th (Queen's Own Worcestershire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, RA
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Kidderminster
 
  • 210 Battery
  • 211 Battery
  • 212 Battery
1950.09.01 The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars
converted and transferred to Royal Armoured Corps
 
  • A Squadron at ?
  • B Squadron at ?
  • C Squadron at ?
1956.10.01 amalgamated with The Warwickshire Yeomanry, to form The Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry
 
     
  Associated Regular Regiments:
    Hussars 1908-1920
    ? 1950-1956
 
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:
pip History of Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry (Worcester City Museum)
pip The Worcestershire Hussars, construction sign by Paul Baker (History of the Hussars) [Internet Archive]
pip Worcestershire Yeomanry, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War)
pip Worcestershire Yeomanry, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
pip 53 Atk Rgt RA (Worcs & Oxfordshire Yeomanry), by Derek Barton (The Royal Artillery 1939-45)
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
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Biography and Gallantry Awards:
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Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
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Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
Worcestershire Yeomanry Museum, Worcester (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Museum of the Worcestershire Regiment & Yeomanry Cavalry, Worcester (Simonides listing)
The Worcester Soldier Collection (Worcester City Museum)
   
   
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-02

The Great War:  Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Rumani, Rafah, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Megiddo, Nablus, Damascus, Palestine 1917-18

The Second World War:  Honorary Distinction:  Badge of the Royal Regiment of Artillery with year-dates "1940, '44-45" and one scroll: "North-West Europe"

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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Record of Colours:
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
[Royal] Honorary Colonel
1953.06.02 HM Queen Elizabeth II
 
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1831 Henry, 8th Earl of Plymouth
1833.11.12 Col. The Hon. Robert Henry Clive, JP, DL, MP
 
Honorary Colonel
1871.06.15 Hon. Col. W., Earl of Dudley
1885.07.04 Col. Augustus Frederick Arthur, 6th Baron Sandys of Ombersley
1905.03.29 Hon. Col. Charles George Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham
 
1939.02.02 Hon. Col. John Cavendish Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham, KCB, TD
1952.12.04 Adm. Sir William G. Tennant, KCB, CBE, MVO [HM Lt Worcestershire]
   
   
  Traditions
 
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  Bibliography How To Find Books
  Regimental Journal:
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  Full Histories:
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Short Histories:
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Special Topics:
book Smith, R. J. (Robert Jeffrey). Worcestershire Yeomanry 1794-1914. [Aldershot?] : Robert Ogilby Trust with the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, 1990. (The Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force 1794-1914 ; 11) ISBN: 0951571427 (pbk)