Category: Middlesex Yeomanry

Categories: Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli) | British Army in World War I | British Army, Second Boer War | British Army

The Middlesex Yeomanry was a volunteer cavalry regiment of the British Army originally raised in 1797. It saw mounted and dismounted action in the Second Boer War and in World War I at Gallipoli, Salonika and in Palestine, where one of its officers won a Victoria Cross at the Battle of Buqqar Ridge and the regiment rode into Damascus with 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Between the world wars the regiment was converted to the signals role and it provided communications for armoured formations in World War II, including service in minor operations in Iraq, Palestine, Syria and Iran, as well as the Western Desert, Italian and North-West European campaigns.

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William Benn 10 May 1877 Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom - 17 Nov 1960

Paul Hackforth-Jones 1917 London, England, United Kingdom - 07 Mar 2013

Albert Sassoon 20 Jun 1856 Bombay, India - 24 May 1912

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