Westminster Dragoons

Date Unit Higher Formation
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. 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) .
1947.01.01 Reconstituted in TA with HQ at Westminster .
. A Squadron in London .
. B Squadron in London .
. C Squadron in London .
1951.09.01 Redesignated The Westminster Dragoons (2nd County of London Yeomanry) .
1961.05.01 Amalgamated with R (Berkshire Yeomanry) Battery, 299 (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, Berkshire Yeomanry, and The Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Field Regiment RA, to form The Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons and converted to armoured cars .
1967.04.01 Disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as HQ (Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry Regiment in TAVR III with HQ at Chelsea .
1969.04.01 HQ (Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry Regiment at Chelsea (effectively the Westminster Dragoons Squadron re-formed when Berkshire element separated to form 94 (Berkshire Yeomanry) Squadron, 71 Signal Regiment, Royal Signals) .
1984 Redesignated HQ (Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry (squadron belatedly redesignated and rebadged accordingly)  .
1999.07.01 Redesignated W (Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry at Chelsea; re-roled in Joint Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Regiment .
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