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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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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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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Yorkshire) 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) (previously: 1st Battalion, Green Howards) 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of Wellington's)...
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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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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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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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Henry Tandey (category Green Howards soldiers)
before becoming a boiler attendant at a hotel. Tandey enlisted into the Green Howards on 12 August 1907. 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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108th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (redirect from 9th (Garrison) Battalion, Green Howards)
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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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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Balliol College, Oxford. Howard fought in the Second World War with the Green Howards, being wounded in Burma. In 1952 Howard was appointed to the office...
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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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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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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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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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but the speeds were record-breaking. The locomotive was 55 008 The Green Howards; it was hauling 10 coaches (343 tons gross), and on the leg from York...
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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 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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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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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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Maguire Kemball (479976), The Royal Green Jackets. 22820897 Warrant Officer Class I Terrence Bernard Latham, The Green Howards. Captain (Quartermaster) William...
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7th Green Howards, the left-hand battalion of the 50th Northumbrian Division's 69th Brigade; here fighting raged all day. Supporting the Howards were the...
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12th (Yorkshire) Parachute Battalion (redirect from 10th (East Riding Yeomanry) Battalion, Green Howards)
formed by the conversion of the 10th (East Riding Yeomanry) Battalion, Green Howards to parachute duties in May 1943. They were then assigned to the 5th...
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Erasmus Darwin IV (category Green Howards officers)
was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion of the Green Howards (Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), a Territorial...
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building was designed as the headquarters of the 4th Battalion the Green Howards and was completed in 1911. The battalion was mobilised at the drill...
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Cecil Howard Green KBE (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist, electrical engineer, and electronics manufacturing executive...
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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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Zachary Stenning (category Green Howards officers)
the Royal Engineers on 4 September 1995. He was transferred to the Green Howards on 1 August 1996. In December 1997, he was awarded the Queen's Commendation...
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Derek Anthony Seagrim (category Green Howards officers)
brother Hugh also attended later. He received his commission into the Green Howards in 1923 and served in Jamaica, Palestine and China. He completed a three-year...
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