Cap Badge - [Royal] Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [Hussars] - (Royal Bucks Hussars) This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $25.00 on e-Bay in the Spring/Summer of 2017. This badge was deemed irrelevant to the museum. The money was used to purchase relevant badges for the collection. Cap badge to the Buckinghmshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars), being a King's crown surmounting a circlet inscribed YEOMAN OF BUCKS above STRIKE HOME, within the circle a swan with a coronet round its neck and attached chain over its back, below the circle a scroll inscribed ROYAL BUCKS HUSSARS. First raised in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars, there were three regiments of mounted yeomanry by 1803. Two of these regiments were disbanded in 1827, but the 2nd or Mid Bucks Regiment of Yeomanry survived, receiving its 'Royal' title from Queen Victoria in 1845. It became the Royal Bucks Hussars in 1889 and some men served in the South African War as part of the Imperial Yeomanry. The yeomanry became the mounted arm of the Territorial Force in 1908, and the 1st Royal Bucks Hussars served at Gallipoli and in Palestine in the First World War. Converted to field artillery, the regiment served in France and Burma during the Second World War as 99th (Royal Bucks Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA. Now forming a squadron of the Royal Signals. Yeomanry is a designation used by a number of units or sub-units of the British Territorial Army, descended from volunteer cavalry regiments. Today, Yeomanry units may serve in a variety of different military roles.