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    the colour of their facings, one becoming 'Green Howards' and the other, 'Buff Howards'. The Green Howards fought at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745...
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    The Green Howards Regimental Museum is the museum of the Green Howards infantry regiment of the British Army. It is located in the old Trinity Church in...
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  • American physician Howard Charles Green (1895–1989), Canadian politician Howard J. Green (1893–1965), American screenwriter Green Howards, a former infantry...
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    Stanley Hollis (category Green Howards soldiers)
    4th Battalion, Green Howards. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was mobilised and transferred to the 6th Battalion, Green Howards, and went to...
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    Yorkshire) 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) (previously: 1st Battalion, Green Howards) 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of Wellington's)...
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  • Durham A (Green Howards) Company, at Scarborough and Northallerton (from A and C Companies, 4th/5th Battalion, Green Howards) B (Green Howards) Company...
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  • include specialist riflemen. The regiment became a battalion of the Green Howards in 1881, and saw service in the Second Boer War. It was disbanded in...
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    Henry Tandey (category Green Howards soldiers)
    before becoming a boiler attendant at a hotel. Tandey enlisted into the Green Howards on 12 August 1910. After basic training he was posted to the 2nd Battalion...
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    Peter Inge, Baron Inge (category Green Howards officers)
    the Green Howards from Sandhurst on 27 July 1956. He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 July 1958, served with the 1st Battalion the Green Howards in Hong...
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    Fusiliers), 150th (4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, 4th and 5th Green Howards and 5th Durham Light Infantry), and 151st (6th to 9th battalions Durham...
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  • William Anderson (VC) (category Green Howards soldiers)
    Army, joining the 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, also known as the Green Howards, for a seven-year period of service; his brother James was already serving...
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  • William McNally (category Green Howards soldiers)
    Ashcroft Gallery. His replica medals and personal story are held at the Green Howards Museum, Richmond, North Yorkshire, alongside the medals of a fellow...
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    during World War II. Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Green Howards in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942. It served with...
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    William Clamp (category Green Howards soldiers)
    commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Green Howards Museum, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. Clamp, William, Commonwealth...
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    William Basil Weston (category Green Howards officers)
    Commonwealth forces. Weston was 21 years old, and a lieutenant in the Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), British Army...
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  • Ernest Frederick Beal (category Green Howards officers)
    commemorated on the Arras Memorial. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Green Howards Museum, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. Two Brighton & Hove buses...
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    the Childers Reforms, the 19th Regiment of Foot evolved to become the Green Howards with its depot at the barracks in 1881. The barracks were demoted to...
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    Oliver Cyril Spencer Watson (category Green Howards officers)
    Military College, Sandhurst, in 1897 Watson was commissioned into the Green Howards and posted to the regiment's 2nd battalion, then serving in India. He...
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    located outside of Canada. On September 1 1944, the 7th Battalion of the Green Howards were spearheading the Allied advance through northern France. After...
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    Donald Simpson Bell (category Green Howards officers)
    promoted to Lance Corporal and then commissioned into the 9th Battalion, Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own Yorkshire Regiment), going to France...
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  • Archie Cecil Thomas White (category Green Howards officers)
    25 years old, and a temporary captain in what was later known as the Green Howards, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC...
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    Alfred Atkinson (category Green Howards soldiers)
    died a few days afterwards. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Green Howards Museum, Richmond, Yorkshire, England. On 8 August 1902, as a result...
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    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...
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    Richard Dannatt (category Green Howards officers)
    British Army) from 2006 to 2009. Dannatt was commissioned into the Green Howards in 1971, and his first tour of duty was in Belfast as a platoon commander...
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    David Philip Hirsch (category Green Howards officers)
    devotion to duty. — London Gazette His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Green Howards Regimental Museum, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. Hirsch came from...
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  • Tom Dresser (category Green Howards soldiers)
    battalion at a critical period. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Green Howards Museum in Richmond, North Yorkshire. "No. 30154". The London Gazette...
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    William Henry Short (category Green Howards soldiers)
    was a 31 year old private in the 8th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), when on 6 August 1916 at Munster Alley, Contalmaison, France, during...
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    amalgamated with the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and the Green Howards, all Yorkshire-based regiments in the King's Division, to form the 1st...
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    Samuel Evans (VC) (category Green Howards soldiers)
    personally from Queen Victoria. His Victoria Cross is displayed in the Green Howards Museum, Richmond, Yorkshire, England. On 8 September 1855 he was severely...
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    Frederick William Holmes (category Green Howards soldiers)
    having recovered from his leg injury, Holmes joined the 1st Battalion, Green Howards and was promoted to sergeant. In December 1915, he was posted to India...
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