The Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own) was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army founded in 1794 as the Dorsetshire Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry in response to the growing threat of invasion during the Napoleonic wars.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 207 recorded WW1 deaths for the Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own).
DAWSON-DAMER, The Honourable George Seymour. Second Lieutenant. 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars. Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas-de-Calais, France. 13-04-1917. Age 24. Son of 5th Earl Portarlington & Viscountess Portman, (formerly Countess of Portarlington).
Previously to his commission in 10th Hussars, he was Captain in Royal Dorset Yeomanry & fought in Gallipoli. He went to New College, Oxford, in 1910 and at the outbreak of war joined the Dorset Yeomanry. He served with them through the Gallipoli campaign, holding the rank of Captain, and was afterwards transferred to the 10th Hussars where he dropped rank to that of 2nd Lieutenant. He was killed in a cavalry charge at Monchy, near Arras, on April 12th 1917.
ROBERTS, Edgar. Second Lieutenant. Dorset Yeomanry. (Queen's Own). Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 31-08-1918. Son of Mrs. Mary Ann Bennett of Stuart Road, Liverpool, UK.