Westminster Dragoons Museum

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We are so excited to share with you our rich history and the campaigns that our forebears have served in, we have published the site already, although it is still in progress. Feel free to take a look around and if you are able to add to any of the sections do reach out to us.

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The Westminster Dragoons Museum has amassed a wide-ranging collection of artefacts illustrating the history of the Westminster Dragoons Yeomanry since 1901. The Collection includes weapons, equipment, and uniforms from the regiment’s earliest days through two World Wars and 21st Century deployment on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Collection is exhibited in the Army Reserve Centre in Fulham.

The Museum's mission is to educate the Soldiers of the unit and public in the history of the Westminster Dragoons by exhibiting the Museum’s Collection, and is dedicated to the proper management and care of the Collection including interpretation of material and artefacts, including parades and public demonstrations, by maintaining regimental memorials, and by publication of articles or images relating to the Westminster Dragoons.

Titles of the Regiment

1901-1903

2nd County of London Imperial Yeomanry

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The Westminster Dragoons has a distinguished history of more than a hundred and twenty years of service to the nation. Recruited mainly from the London area, the regiment has been variously roled as cavalry, cameleers, machine gunners, armoured corps, NBC and as a reconnaissance regiment.

Like all Yeomanry units throughout the UK, the regiment has had to adapt to the constant tide of change brought about by war, by changing military requirements, and by restricted Government policies and finances.

The Westminster Dragoons have seen action in a variety of conflicts over the past one hundred and twenty years. South Africa the First and Second World Wars which saw the regiment involved in some of the heaviest fighting. During the First World War the regiment was in action at Gallipoli in 1915, in Palestine during 1917 and on the Western Front in 1918. In the Second World War, the regiment was involved in D-Day and through France and into Germany.