High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset
A parade by the mounted 17th Yeomanry. The Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry was founded in 1794 as the Dorsetshire Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry in response to the growing threat of invasion during the Napoleonic wars. For a time they had their headquarters at Weymouth. On 1 April 1908, the regiment transferred to the Territorial Force, trained and equipped as hussars. The 1/1st Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry was mobilised in August 1914 and attached to the 1st South Western Mounted Brigade. They served in Egypt and Gallipoli.
