page_title: Royal Yeomanry
section_title: Battle Honours
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Yeomanry / Battle Honours
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the Regimental guidon (the cavalry term for the 'colours'), the battle flag of the Royal Yeomanry, a regiment of the British Army Reserve.
context_page_description: The Royal Yeomanry is the senior reserve light cavalry regiment of the British Army. Equipped with Supacat Jackal variants and the Land Rover RWMIK, their role is to conduct mounted and dismounted formation reconnaissance. The Regimental Headquarters is located in Leicester, with squadrons in Fulham, Nottingham, Dudley, Croydon, Telford and Leicester.
  The regiment is part of the Royal Armoured Corps and is paired with and supports the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards. QDG and RY together form the light cavalry reconnaissance component of 7th Infantry Brigade, serving alongside six infantry battalions. The RY is one of three light cavalry reserve regiments in 1st Division.
  The Royal Yeomanry is the only British Army Reserve unit to have been awarded a battle honour since the Second World War.
context_section_description: As a result of the Regiment's initial service during the Iraq war, in 2005 the Royal Yeomanry was awarded the battle honour "Iraq 2003". This is the first such honour the regiment has won since its formation, and the first, so far the only, battle honour awarded to an Army Reserve regiment since the Second World War.
  The regimental guidon of the Royal Yeomanry, presented to the regiment on 7 May 2016, also bears 40 of the battle honours won by its antecedent regiments as well as four theatre honours awarded to those of its antecedents that were converted to artillery during the Second World War.
  Battle Honours:
caption: The Regimental guidon of the Royal Yeomanry (face)
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