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- Staffordshire_Yeomanry comment "The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) was a unit of the British Army.Raised in 1794 following Prime Minister William Pitt's order to raise volunteer bodies of men to defend Great Britain from foreign invasion, the Staffordshire Yeomanry began as a volunteer cavalry regiment. Future Prime Minister Robert Peel was an officer in the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1820.It first served overseas at the time of the Boer War.".