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The Royal Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) (abbreviated R YORKS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, created by the amalgamation of ...
A selection of uniforms mostly worn in the British Army as worn by the Royal Yorkshire Regiment.(Now with a red band around the cap, signifying that the regiment is now a royal regiment). Fourteen numbered "orders" of dress (in addition to full dress) are set out in Army Dress Regulations [ 12 ] but many of these are rarely worn or have been ...
The formal designation of the most commonly worn mess uniform in the British Army is "No. 10 (Temperate) Mess Dress". The form varies according to regiment or corps, but generally a short mess jacket is worn, which either fastens at the neck (being cut away to show the waistcoat, this being traditionally the style worn by cavalry regiments and other mounted corps), [4] or is worn with a white ...
The Green Howards – 19th (1st North Riding of Yorkshire) Regiment of Foot later Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) [1] (So named in 1744, to distinguish them from Howard's Buffs by facing colour of uniform; both regiments had colonels named Howard at the time)
A private of the 69th Regiment of Foot in about 1880, wearing the home service uniform worn until 1902. Members of the Corps of Guides in early khaki uniforms. During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the bright red tunics worn by British infantry regiments had proved to be a liability, especially when during the First Boer War they had been faced by enemies armed with rifles firing ...
3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment Cheshire Regiment; Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment Staffordshire Regiment West Midlands Regiment Royal Welch Fusiliers Royal Regiment of Wales; 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh 3rd Battalion, Royal Welsh Devonshire and Dorset Regiment Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and ...
In 1747, the first of a series of clothing regulations and royal warrants set out the various facing colours and distinctions to be borne by each regiment. [28] The long coat worn with a white or buff-coloured waistcoat [ 29 ] was discontinued in 1797 in favour of a tight-fitting coatee fastened with a single row of buttons, with white lace ...
A corps of drums of the Duke of Wellington's regiment (since amalgamated into the Yorkshire Regiment). While the Corps of Drums in the British Army often parade in combat uniforms and other forms of dress, they will sometimes parade in the full dress uniform , being one of the few formations which regularly wear full dress.