The Army’s new Yorkshire Regiment

[Matzos]

The Army’s new Yorkshire Regiment, officially joining together three of the region’s famous infantry battalions, is formed today, Tuesday 6 June 2006.
The 1st Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, the 1st Battalion Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment and the 1st Battalion Green Howards will parade and change their old cap badges for the new Lion and Yorkshire Rose emblem of the new regiment.

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New Cap Badge

The new Regiment will contain four battalions – three regular and one territorial – a total of 2300 officers and soldiers. There will also be 1700 young people from the Army Cadet Force and Combined Cadet Force affiliated to it.

Under the new structure the battalions will be 1st Battalion (Prince of Wales’s Own), 2nd Battalion (Green Howards), 3rd Battalion (Duke of Wellington’s Regiment) and 4th Battalion (Territorial Army) of the Yorkshire Regiment. The Colonel in Chief will be His Royal Highness The Duke of York.
The Yorkshire Regiment will recruit from within the historic boundaries of Yorkshire including from Cleveland and will be founded on a three hundred years of 'Yorkshire Warrior' tradition.

All the Battalions were present at the Normandy Landings and so it was decided to launch the Regiment on anniversary of the battle honour they all share – D Day.

The day will be marked by re-cap badging parades; in the UK in Catterick (1 YORKS, formerly 1st Battalion Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment), Warminster (3 YORKS formerly 1st Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment), and in the Balkans (2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment formerly 1st Battalion Green Howards). The TA battalion will re-capbadge in their TA centres all over Yorkshire and in Middlesbrough.

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one of two ferrets belonging to the former 1st Battalion The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment,

[John A Silkstone]

My father was in the 1st West Yorks. Regiment and fought in the Great War. So three more regiments fade into the past.

I don’t know if it’s true but I’ve heard that the present government is thing of reducing the forces to two people in each service, one male and one female.

Says he, with tongue in cheek.

Silky

[Matzos]

I don’t know if it’s true but I’ve heard that the present government is thing of reducing the forces to two people in each service,

I hear that as well. However, one reads and the other writes.........:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Bombardier]

one male and one female.

Is this a cunning plan by the MOD to breed an entirely new Regiment? (Y)

[IronFootedBstrd]

*G*

At least though they are keeping the titles, heritage, etc within the individual Battalions (I know they have tried to do that in the past too, whether its worked, I dunno) rather than letting all that unit pride & history go....

My Login name, for those that dont realise, dates from more than one amalgamation ago..... when the above-mentioned Prince of Wales Own Regiment of Yorkshire was formed from the amalgamation of the East Yorkshire & West Yorkshire Regiments in 1958.

The 'Iron-Footed B*st*rds' was just ONE of the nicknames the East Yorkshires acquired, & I live in East Yorkshire.....so...