In the century since their formation, the Westminster Dragoons have had many roles: as cavalry, infantry, machine gunners, armoured car crewmen, tank crews in gun and flail tanks, members of an officer training unit, reconnaissance soldiers and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defence crewmen.
A Territorial Army unit set up during the Boer war, the WDs have seen active service from Gallipoli to Palestine, on the Normandy beaches, across northwest Europe and, most recently, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
