The Queen's Own Lowland Yeomanry was a

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

unit formed in 1956 and disbanded in 1975.

History

The regiment was formed through the amalgamation of the

Lanarkshire Yeomanry The Lanarkshire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1819, which served as a dismounted infantry regiment in the First World War and provided two field artillery regiments in the Second World War, before being ama ...

, The

Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army that can trace their formation back to 1796. It saw action in the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War. It amalgamated with the Lanarkshir ...

, and 1st/2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry in October 1956. It was reduced to a cadre in 1969 and disbanded in 1975.

References

{{reflist Yeomanry regiments of the British Army