1685.06.22 Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot
raised at Nottingham; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels
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]
1935.05.06 The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)
named for the Colonel-in-Chief
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 full dress facings were white and the Quick March was the "Yorkshire lass".

The Colours are in Beverley Minster with others in Holy Trinity Hull.

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Battle Honours WW1

'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

Battle Honours WW2

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

WW2 VC

 

Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Museum, York (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment

1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment
1881 Ireland: Londonderry
1883 England: Sheffield
1885 Gibraltar
1886 West Indies
1888 South Africa
1893 Egypt
1895 India: Belgaum
1903 Burma: Schwebo
1906 England: Shorncliffe
1909 Aldershot
1911 York 18 Bde
1914.09 France and Flanders 6 Div
1915.11 France and Flanders 21 Div
1919 Ireland: Mullingar
1922 Egypt
1925 China
1928.11 India: Dinapore
1932 Razmak
1936 NW Frontier: Jullunder
1939.09 Jullunder
1944.07 India/Burma 17 Ind Inf Div
1945 Austria
1948.09.14 amalgamated in Austria with 2nd Battalion without change of title
1948 Germany
1951 Germany 31 Bde
1953.04 Malaya
1956.01 Germany: Osnabrück BAOR
1957.09 Germany: Osnabrück 21 Bde
1958 England: Dover
1958.04.25 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), to form 1st Bn, The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire

2nd Battalion

1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment
1881 India: Bombay
1888 Aden
1889 England: Manchester
1892 Preston
1894 Ireland: Tipperary
1896 Curragh
1898 Templemore
1901.04 South Africa 16 Bde, 8 Div
1902 England: Aldershot
1905 Burma
1909 India: Fyzabad
1913 Kamptee
1915.01 France and Flanders 28 Div
1915.11 Macedonia
1919 India
1920 Iraq 6 Div
1922 Turkey Army of Occupation
1923 England: Lichfield
1927 Aldershot 2 Bde
1931 Catterick
1934 Aldershot 5 Bde
1937 Palestine
1937 England: Plymouth 8 Bde
1939.09 France & Belgium 3 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK
1944.06 NW Europe
1945 Palestine
1947 Egypt
1948 Austria
1948.09.1