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Who We AreThe Westminster Dragoons (WDs) are central London's only Territorial Army cavalry unit. As part of the Royal Yeomanry, our current role is to provide specialist reconnaissance for the British Army on operations. We reinforce three regular Army regiments: the Joint Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Regiment, the Light Dragoons and the Household Cavalry Regiment. We provide manoeuvre support as part of the Army's combat arm by detecting and decontaminating nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical hazards. Every one of our soldiers trains to be a CBRN specialist, a Royal Armoured Corps crewman and infantryman capable of conducting front-line operations. Formed during the Boer War, we are part of the Royal Yeomanry Britain's senior yeomanry (volunteer cavalry) regiment. The WDs fought in Gallipoli and led British forces onto the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
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ks Our most recent operational tours have been in Iraq. In 2003 the whole squadron was mobilised to perform its war-fighting role: one of very few TA units to deploy on operations as a complete unit in recent years and the first since the second world war to be awarded a battle honour. At the end of 2006, the Westminster Dragoons sent another group of soldiers to serve six-months' operational duty on Operation Telic in south east Iraq under the command of H Squadron of the Royal Tank Regiment (RTR)."
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