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The East Yorkshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1685 as Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot and later renamed the 15th Regiment of Foot. It saw service for three centuries, before eventually being amalgamated with the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) in 1958, to form the Prince of ...
Poole enlisted with the British army at the age of 18 (30/7/94) and was assigned to the 2nd East Yorkshire Regiment alongside his future commandant, Michael Mallin. Poole served for a period in South Africa, earning the Queen's South Africa Medal and two King's South Africa Medal clasps for his service during the Boer War, after which he ...
East Riding of Yorkshire 1st VB, East Yorkshire Regiment: 4th Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment: 2nd VB, East Yorkshire Regiment: 5th (Cyclist) Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment: North Riding of Yorkshire 1st VB, The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) 4th Bn, The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) 2nd VB, The Princess of Wales's Own ...
65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot 1782–1881 [105] 1758 Raised as 2nd Battalion, 12th Regiment of Foot 1756, reconstituted as 65th Regiment of Foot 1758. [105] 1881: 1st Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment: Disbanded 1968. 66: 66th Regiment of Foot (Pepperell's) 1745–1749 [104] [106] 1745 Raised September 1745 in New ...
0–9. 1st Volunteer Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment; 2nd Volunteer Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment; 3rd (East York Militia) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
6th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment – became divisional pioneers 18 January 1915; 6th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (Green Howards) – absorbed into 2nd Battalion 16 May 1918; 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) – from 34 Bde 18 January 1915; disbanded and drafted February 1918
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 three historic regiments in 2006.
When the Volunteers were subsumed into the new Territorial Force (TF) under the Haldane Reforms of 1908, [12] [13] [14] the 2nd VB including the cyclist company formed the nucleus of the 5th (Cyclist) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, although the new unit's HQ and half the companies were based in Hull: [3] [15] [16] [17] [a]