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...
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Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire; areas near Barnsley are recruitment area for the Rifles. The regiment's formation...
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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...
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changed to the 33rd (or First Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment, thus formalising an association with the West Riding of Yorkshire which, even then, had been...
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Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the 1974 reform, the city...
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1958 by the amalgamation of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) and the East Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of York's Own) (15th Foot)...
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Bradford Rifles (redirect from 49th (The West Yorkshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery)
British Army formed in 1859. It went on to become a battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment in the Territorial Force and saw action on the Western Front during...
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Green Howards (redirect from The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment))
Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), frequently known as the Yorkshire Regiment until the 1920s, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army...
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The Yorkshire Regiment. The regiment was formed in 1999 by the amalgamation of the 3rd Battalion The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire (Yorkshire...
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of Yorkshire resolved to raise Troops of yeomanry. The Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire, the Duke of Norfolk, proceeded to raise two regiments of West Riding...
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West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east...
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named the 15th Battalion (1st Leeds), The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment). The battalion was formed in September 1914 by a committee led...
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West Riding) Brigade 1/5th Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) 1/6th Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)...
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in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. In the 15th century, the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding...
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The 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1755. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated...
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The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the riding was an administrative county named...
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Regiment Gloucestershire Regiment Coldstream Guards West Yorkshire Regiment 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Royal Dragoon Guards North-West Europe 1942 (Battle...
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The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1794 to 1956. It was formed as a volunteer cavalry force...
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George Sanders (VC) (category West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers)
later promoted to corporal to the 1/7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), British Army during the First World...
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King's Own (1st Staffordshire) Militia (redirect from 52nd (Graduated) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment)
Staffordshire Regiment was an auxiliary regiment in Staffordshire in the West Midlands of England. From 1662, and again after 1777, the regiment's primary role...
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Infantry) Regiment of Foot Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) 14th (Buckinghamshire, The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot East Yorkshire Regiment...
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The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army. It officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors...
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the battalions were raised (the Dorsetshire Regiment raised eleven battalions, whilst the London Regiment managed to raise eighty-eight battalions). Regular...
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Conwyn Mansel-Jones (category West Yorkshire Regiment officers)
The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own) on 8 October 1890. He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 July 1892, and served with his regiment in...
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Leeds Rifles (redirect from 66th (Leeds Rifles) (West Yorkshire Regiment) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery)
association between the Tetley family and the regiment. The Leeds Rifles was accepted as the 11th Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps, with the first...
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Crossing. In 1956, it merged with two other Yorkshire yeomanry regiments to form the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry. Its lineage is continued today by...
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Hanson Turner (category West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers)
33 years old, and an acting sergeant in the 1st Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), British Army during the Second World...
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William Traynor (category West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers)
was born at 29 Moxon Street, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He joined the West Yorkshire Regiment in November 1888 and served in India and, from October...
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Samuel Meekosha (category West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers)
Cunningham. He was 22 years old, and a corporal in the 1/6th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), British Army based at Belle Vue Barracks...
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Eric Poole (category West Yorkshire Regiment officers)
of the West Yorkshire Regiment, which he joined for training in England. Twelve months later he was transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment's 11th (Service)...
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