Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry - World War I

World War I

South Eastern Mounted Brigade, Russell Square, London
Organisation 4 August 1914

  • Royal East Kent Yeomanry (The Duke of Connaught's Own), Canterbury
    • A Squadron at Chatham
    • B Squadron at Faversham
    • C Squadron at Dover
    • D Squadron at Ashford
  • Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry, Maidstone
    • A Squadron at Bromley
    • B Squadron at Dartford
    • C Squadron at Tunbridge
    • D Squadron at Maidstone
  • Sussex Yeomanry, Brighton
    • A Squadron at Brighton
    • B Squadron at Lewes
    • C Squadron at Chichester
    • D Squadron at Eastbourne
  • Brigade Troops
    • B Battery, HAC, (2nd City of London Horse Artillery), Armoury House, Finsbury (attached to London Mounted Brigade for training)
    • South Eastern Mounted Brigade Ammunition Column, Armoury House, Finsbury
    • South Eastern Mounted Brigade Transport and Supply Column, ASC, Croydon
    • South Eastern Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, RAMC, Margate
  • Attached for training:
  • Surrey Yeomanry (The Princess of Wales's), Clapham Park
    • A Squadron at Clapham Park
    • B Squadron at Guildford
    • C Squadron at West Croydon
    • D Squadron at Wimbledon


During World War One the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry supplied three regiments for service the original regiment became known as the 1/1st Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry, the second line regiment was the 2/1st and the third line regiment the 3/1st

Read more about this topic:  Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry

Famous quotes containing the words war i, world and/or war:

    “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.... A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice—is often the means of their regeneration.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

    “Think what a mean and wretched place this world is; that half the time we have to light a lamp that we may see to live in it. This is half our life. Who would undertake the enterprise if it were all?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the “money touch,” but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)