Royal Wessex Yeomanry Cap Badge

[REME 245]

We have discussed the new cap badge of the RWY on a number of occasions and the decision to incorporate a Dragon rather than the Wyvern. The second of these is what most people would probably associate with Wessex, and which the army has worn for many years in both war and peace to represent the region.

The attached is the Regiments basis for selecting the Dragon over the Wyvern but if you do any research on the web you will come back with contradictory evidence both conflicting and supporting this. Do we have any heraldry experts here who are better qualified to comment either way. Did the 43rd Wessex Division really get it so wrong when they adopted the Wyvern during the 1930's?