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The Royal Yorkshire Regiment ... Infantry regiments are permitted to display 43 battle honours from the two world wars on the Queen's Colour and 46 honours from other ...
4 Battle honours. 5 Victoria Cross recipients. ... Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), frequently known as the Yorkshire Regiment until the 1920s, [1] ...
The East Yorkshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, ... The regiment's battle honours were as follows: [4] Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde ...
65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot; 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot; D. Duke of Wellington's Regiment; E. East and West Riding Regiment;
Regimental Colour of the 18th Regiment of Foot showing the earliest battle honour (for Namur) and the badges later awarded for Egypt and China.. The first battle honour was the motto Virtutis Namurcensis Præmium (Reward for valour at Namur), [3] ordered by King William III to be emblazoned on the colour of the 18th Regiment of Foot, later the Royal Irish Regiment, for their part in the Siege ...
The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army.In 1958 it amalgamated with the East Yorkshire Regiment (15th Foot) to form the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire which was, on 6 June 2006, amalgamated with the Green Howards and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) to form the Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th ...
Over time, these colours have evolved to include the battle honours awarded to each regiment, though these have also been limited. The last British Army regiment to carry its regimental colours into battle was the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot in January 1881 at the Battle of Laing's Nek during the First Boer War. [2]
The title of Light Infantry was given in honour of its former commander General Sir John Moore in 1809, and in 1821 the regiment was given royal status when King's Own was added to its title, becoming the 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding, The King's Own Light Infantry) Regiment.