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The East Yorkshire
Regiment
(The Duke of York's Own) |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
Kingdom
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| 1685.06.22 | Sir William
Clifton's Regiment of Foot raised at Nottingham; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels |
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| 1751.07.01 | 15th Regiment of Foot | |
| 1782.08.31 | 15th (the Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot | |
| 1881.07.01 | The East
Yorkshire Regiment reorganised as the county regiment of East Riding, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] |
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| 1935.05.06 | The East
Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) named for the Colonel-in-Chief |
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| 1958.04.25 | amalgamated with The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), to form The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire | |
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The East Yorkshire Regiment, by Campbell Ricketts. | |
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The East Yorkshire Regiment, 1685-1958, by Peter Stubbs. | |
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The East Yorkshire Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) | |
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The East Yorkshire Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War). | |
RHQ and
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| ? Depot Battalion
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| 5th Brigade Depot at Beverley [1873-1881] | ||
| 15th Regimental District at Beverley [1881-1905] | ||
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| E Group at Catterick [1946-1948] | ||
| Yorkshire Brigade at York [1948-1958] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1685-1958] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1799-1802, 1804-1816, 1858-1949] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (York East Riding
Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953] |
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| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1908-1958] | ||
| 5th (Cyclist) Battalion [1908-1920] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/4th Battalion [1914-1920]
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| 4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 5th Battalion [1939-1947]
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| 6th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
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| 6th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 6th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
[1914-1919] |
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| 7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 7th Battalion [1940-1944]
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| 8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 8th Battalion [1940-1942]
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| 9th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 10th (1st Hull) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1919] |
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| 11th (2nd Hull) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1919] |
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| 12th (3rd Hull) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 13th (4th Hull) (Service) Battalion
[1914-1918] |
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| 14th (Reserve) (Hull) Battalion
[1915-1916] |
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| 15th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 17th (Transport Workers) Battalion
[1918-1918] |
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1943]
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| 50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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| 1st Garrison Battalion [1915-1920]
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| 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
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| Blenheim,
Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Louisburg,
Quebec 1759, Martinique
1762, Havannah, St.
Lucia 1778, Martinique
1794 1809, Guadeloupe
1810, Afghanistan
1879-80, South Africa
1900-02
The Great War (21 battalions): Aisne 1914 '18, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Oppy, Messines 1917 '18, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-16 The Second World War: Withdrawal to Escaut, Defence of Escaut, Defence of Arras, French Frontier 1940, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Tilly sur Seulles, Odon, Caen, Bourguébus Ridge, Troarn, Mont Pincon, St. Pierre la Vielle, Gheel, Nederrijn, Aam, Venraij, Rhineland, Schaddenhof, Brinkum, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Gazala, Mersa Matruh, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, Mareth, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, North Africa 1942-43, Primosole Bridge, Sicily 1943, Sittang 1945, Burma 1945 |
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| Badges: | black badge backing (originally black line in gold lace), in mourning for Gen. Wolfe dead at Quebec. |
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| Uniform: | ?-1881:
scarlet; facings: yellow 1881-1953: scarlet; facings: white 1953-1958: blue; facings: white; piping: white headdress:
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| 1922.10.10 | F.M. HM King George VI | |
| 1685.06.22 | Col. Sir William Clifton, Bt. | |
| 1686.05.12 | Col. Arthur (Herbert), 1st Earl of Torrington [also 1st Marines; Admiral, C-in-C Fleet] | |
| 1687.04.12 | Col. Hon. Sackville Tufton | |
| 1688.12.31 | Col. Sir James Leslie | |
| 1695.11.01 | Lt-Gen. Hon. Emmanuel Scrope Howe | |
| 1709.10.23 | Gen. Algernon (Seymour), 7th Duke of Somerset and Earl of Hertford | |
| 1715.02.08 | Lt-Gen. Henry Harrison | |
| 1749.04.15 | Col. John Jordan [also 9th Dgns, 8th Marines] | |
| 1756.05.22 | F.M. Sir Jeffrey (Amherst), 1st Baron Amherst, KB [also 2nd Tp Horse Gds, 2nd Tp Horse Gren Gds, 3rd Foot; Col.-in-Chief, 60th Foot; C-in-C North America; Gov. Virginia] | |
| 1768.09.21 | Lt-Gen. Sir Charles (Hotham), 8th Bt., KB | |
| 1775.09.07 | Lt-Gen. Richard (Lambart), 6th Earl of Cavan | |
| 1778.11.12 | Gen. Sir William Fawcett, KB | |
| 1792.08.22 | Gen. James Inglis Hamilton [also 21st Foot, 113th Foot] | |
| 1794.06.20 | Gen. Henry Watson Powell | |
| 1814.07.23 | Gen.Sir Moore Disney, KCB | |
| 1846.04.24 | Gen. Sir Phineas Riall, KCH | |
| 1850.11.25 | Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Watson, CB | |
| 1851.10.06 | Gen. Sir Howard Douglas, Bt., GCB, GCMG | |
| 1861.11.10 | Lt-Gen. William Booth | |
| 1868.04.21 | Gen. Thomas Armstrong Drought | |
| 1877.08.23 | Gen. Sir William Montagu Scott McMurdo, GCB [also 22nd Foot, 69th Foot; Hon. Col. Engr & Railway Transport Vols] | |
| 1888.06.03 | Gen. Edward George Wynyard | |
| 1889.09.30 | Gen. John Hope Wingfield | |
| 1890.02.04 | Gen. Robert Bruce | |
| 1891.06.06 | Gen. Edward Westby Donovan | |
| 1897.01.22 | Lt-Gen. William Hardy, CB | |
| 1901.09.23 | Maj-Gen. Sir Coleridge Grove, KCB | |
| 1920.05.18 | Maj-Gen. Francis Seymour Inglefield, CB, DSO [also Hon. Col. 4th Bn E Yorks Regt] | |
| 1925.12.31 | Maj-Gen. Sir Gerald Farrell Boyd, KCB, CMG, DSO, DCM [also Leinster Regt] | |
| 1930.04.13 | Brig-Gen. Henry Haggard | |
| 1933.09.21 | Brig-Gen. John Louis Justice Clarke, CMG | |
| 1940.11.23 | Lt-Gen. Sir Desmond Francis Anderson, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO | |
| 1948.12.08 | Brig. Robert John Springhall, CB, OBE [continued 1958 in Prince of Wales's Own Regt of Yorks] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
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| Anniversaries: | Quebec (13 Sept.) | |
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The York Regiment |
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The Carleton and York Regiment | 1936-1954 | |
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1st Bn, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment (Carleton and York) | 1954-1958 | |
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Les Voltigeurs de Québec | 1955?-1958 | |
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15th Battalion (The Oxley Regiment) | 1928-1951 | |
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2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (World War II Living History Association) | |
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Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Museum, York (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Hull City Museum, Hull (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Museum, York (Simonides listing) | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The snapper. | |
| Full Histories: | ||
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record of the Fifteenth, or the Yorkshire East Riding Regiment of Foot : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1848. London : Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1848. (Historical records of the British Army) | |
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Jones, Robert John. A history of the 15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment, the Duke of York's Own, 1685 to 1914. [s.l. : s.n.], 1958. | |
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Jones, Robert John. A history of the 15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) 1685 to 1914. [Beverley : East Yorkshire Regimental Association, 1964. | |
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Barker, A. J. The East Yorkshire Regiment: (The 15th Regiment of Foot). London : Leo Cooper Ltd, 1971. (Famous regiments) ISBN: 0850520576 | |
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Starke, William. A short history of the East Yorkshire Regiment, for the rank and file of its First Battalion. Londonderry : [s.n.], 1882. | |
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Edwards, E. L. P. A continuation from 1881 to 1913 of Lieutenant-Colonel William Starke's short history of the East Yorkshire Regiment. Aldershot : [Gale & Polden], 1913. | |
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2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, Fyzabad, 1910. Paris : Evrard, 1910. | |
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Anderson, D. F. A short history of The East Yorkshire Regiment (The "Snappers"), 1685 to 1933. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1933. | |
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Anderson, D. F. A short history of The East Yorkshire Regiment (The "Snappers"), 1685 to 1933. [new ed.] Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1950. | |
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The East Yorkshire Regiment (the Duke of York's own) 250th anniversary, 1685-1935. [Aldershot : Gale & Polden], 1935 | |
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Hayton, Richard. March to the Yorkshire lass : an introduction to the history of the 15th Yorkshire East Riding Regiment, 1685 to 1914. Hull : Local History Unit, Hull College, 1994. (Local History Unit resource guide ; no. 31) ISBN: 1898398054 | |
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Norfolk, R.W.S. Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteer Forces of the East Riding, 1689-1908. [York] : East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1965. (E. Y. local history series ; 19) | |
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First World War: |
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Wyrall, Everard. The East Yorkshire regiment in the great war, 1914-1918. London : Harrison & Sons, Ltd., 1928. | |
| A history of the 10th (Service) Battalion, the East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull Commercials) 1914-1919. London : A. Brown & Sons, 1937. | ||
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Bilton, David. Hull Pals : 10th, 11th, 12th & 13th (Service) Battalions of the East Yorkshire Regiment ; a history of 92 Infantry Brigade 31st Division. Barnsley : Pen & Sword, 1999. ISBN: 0850526345 | |
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Bilton, David. The trench : the true story of the Hull Pals. Barnsley : Leo Cooper, 2002. ISBN: 0850528623 | |
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A short diary of the 11th Service Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, 1914-1919. Hull : Goddard, Walker and Brown, 1921. | |
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Truman, Townley. Record of service of the 4th (Hull) or 13th (Service) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Hull : Richard Johnson and Sons, [1920?] | |
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White, W. Lambert. Records of the East Yorkshire Volunteer Force, 1914-1919. Hull : Printed by the Eastern Morning and Hull News Co., 1920. | |
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Whiting, Charles ; Taylor, Eric. The fighting tykes : an informal history of the Yorkshire regiments in the Second World War. London : Leo Cooper, 1993. ISBN: 0850523575 | |
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Nightingale, P. R. A history of the East Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of York's Own) in the war of 1939-45. [Limited ed., 100 copies] York : W. Sessions, 1952. | |
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Nightingale, P. R. A history of the East Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of York's Own) in the war of 1939-45. [reprint] Howden : Mr. Pye, 1998. ISBN: 0946289352; 0946289344 (pbk) | |
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Regimental history of 2nd Battalion the East Yorkshire Regiment, 6th June 1944 to 8th May 1945. [Liverpool : printed by W. Potter, 1945] | |
| Other Wars: | ||
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Lazenby, C.W. With the Second Battalion East Yorkshire Regt. in South Africa, 1900-1901-1902. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1902. | |
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Orderly Books of the Crown Forces in America 1775-1784, compiled by John K. Robertson, Don Hagist, Todd Braisted, and Don Londahl-Smidt (RevWar'75) | |
