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The 3rd Battalion (West Yorkshire), Yorkshire Volunteers was an infantry battalion of the only full Territorial Army (TA) regiment in Yorkshire.The battalion was formed along with the 2nd (Yorkshire and Humberside) Battalion of the same regiment in 1971.
At a ceremony outside the Town Hall the regiment paraded two guards of soldiers who had recently returned from Iraq, and the colours of the 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of Wellington's), led by the Kings Division Band, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Vallings, the Battalion commanding officer. The Mayor of Rotherham ...
As a result, most of the Yorkshire battalions of TA infantry were merged into a single battalion of the new regiment. The battalions merged into the new regiment were: 3rd Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire; 4th/5th Battalion, The Green Howards; The West Riding Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
9th Battalion (1940–46) – Indian 25th Division; 10th (Service) Battalion (1914–18) – 63rd Infantry Brigade, 21st Division (attached to 37th Division from 1916) 10th Battalion (1940–41) – converted to 150th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, 254th Indian Tank Brigade; 11th (Reserve) Battalion (1914–16) – 90th Brigade, 33rd Division ...
The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front. [4] The 1st and 2nd East Riding Batteries and Ammunition Column of the II Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery , were also based at Londesborough Barracks, although their brigade HQ was at Wenlock Barracks in Anlaby Road .
The 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers (4 YORKS) was an infantry battalion of Yorkshire's only Territorial Army (TA) regiment, and existed for just around four years before amalgamating with another battalion of the Yorkshire Volunteers.
4th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) 4th Battalion, the Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords) [ 5 ] In addition, the King's Division also maintains a single regular army band titled the Band of the King's Division , which is a component band of British Army Bands Catterick. [ 6 ]
It became the 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot), with the Green Howards (19th Foot) forming the 2nd Battalion and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (33rd/76th Foot) forming the 3rd Battalion on 6 June 2006. Following further merges, in 2012, the battalion was redesignated as the new 2nd Battalion (2 YORKS) .