cWW1 West Kent Yeomanry / c1920s, 97th (Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment Cloth Badge

Good scarce early White Horse of Kent embroidered on black diamond. Removed from Uniform GC. WW1-1920s this badge, not be confused with later style horse / construction of the post WW2, 297th Regt type often seen.

West Kent Yeo adopted this badge in the Great War and it continued to be worn in the amalgamation with the East Kent Yeo in 1920, when they both became the 97th Kent Yeo.

Ref: BoBD for same 724.


The Kent Yeomanry was an artillery regiment of the Territorial Army (TA) formed in 1920 by the amalgamation of the Royal East Kent (The Duke of Connaught's Own) Yeomanry (Mounted Rifles) and West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own). For the Second World War it was expanded to form two field artillery regiments – 97 (Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery and 143 (Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – which saw active service in North Africa, Italy and North-West Europe, both with the BEF in 1940 and on the Second Front in 1944–45. Post war it was reconstituted as 297 (Kent Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment.

Code: 147