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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 ...
The East York Militia was a part time home defence force in the East Riding of Yorkshire.The Militia and its predecessors had always been important in Yorkshire, and from its formal creation in 1759 the regiment served in home defence in all Britain's major wars until 1919.
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 .
Dukes Museum exit. The regiment's headquarters (now an area headquarters of the Yorkshire Regiment) and archives are at Wellesley Park in Halifax. In 1860 Edward Akroyd paid for and recruited the 4th Yorkshire West Riding (Halifax) Rifle Volunteers, absorbing the 7th battalion formed in 1959. In 1883 the title of the regiment changed to the ...
It became the 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th, 33rd and 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 ...
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 ]
The Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum is based at Bankfield House, in Halifax, Yorkshire [9] The DLI Museum in Durham closed in 2016 [10] The East Yorkshire regimental collection is housed in Wilberforce House, Hull. [11] The Essex Regiment Museum is based at Oaklands Park in Chelmsford [12]