(Alexandra's Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment)

1688.11.20 Francis Lutterell's Regiment of Foot
raised from independent companies in Devonshire; also known until 1751 by the names of seven other colonels
1689.03.08 Thomas Erle raised a regiment and subsequently (1691-1712) also became colonel of the 19th Foot, thereby owning two regiments, the junior one sometimes being called the 2nd Battalion (which disbanded 1698)
1751.07.01 19th Regiment of Foot
1782.08.31 19th (The 1st Yorkshire North Riding) Regiment of Foot
1875.10.29 19th (The 1st Yorkshire North Riding - Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
(named for Princess Alexandra, Princess of Wales)
1881.07.01 The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
reorganised as the county regiment of Yorkshire North Riding, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below]
1902 Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
1921.01.01 The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
2006.06.06 to unite with The Prince of Wales's Own Regt of Yorkshire , and The Duke of Wellington's Regt, to form The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th, and 33rd/76th)
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The regiments official title started in 1740 when there were two regiments commanded by a "Howard". The 3rd wore buff facings and the 19th wore green. It took 20years for the 19th to recover its green facings after the change to white in 1881.

The 19th became Princess Alexandra's in 1875. The Colours of the First World War are in County Hall Northallerton.

Battle Honours WW1

The Great War (24 battalions): Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Neuve Chapelle, St Julien, Frezenburg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Messines 1917 '18, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Aisne 1918, Drocourt Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Beaurevoir, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916, Archangel 1918

Battle Honours WW2

The Second World War: Otta, Norway 1940, Defence of Arras, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Tilly sur Seulles, St Pierre La Vielle, Gheel, Nederrijn, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Gazala, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, Mareth, Akarit, North Africa 1942-43, Landing in Sicily, Lentini, Sicily 1943, Minturno, Anzio, Italy 1943-44, Arakan Beaches, Burma 1945

 

The Green Howards Museum, Richmond, (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

6th Battalion WW1 - deployment to Russia.

During the earlier part of the the Great War, the Baltic and Black Sea ports being practically closed by the enemy, Murmansk on the Kola Gulf, ice-free all the year round by reason of the presence of a branch of the Gulf Stream, was first used for the conveyance to the Russian Army of military stores sent by ship from England;

But following upon the revolutioin in Russia this port became something of a menace in that it formed a favourable base of operations for German submarines which might be brought thither overland by railway through the interior of Russian, and then to the harbour of Murmansk, which had been joined to the internal railway system by a military line completed in 1917. Consequently, in June 1918, a small detachment composed of infantry and marines had been dispatch to protect the port and the large amount of stores of all kinds which had there been accumulated. Major-General F C Poole had been sent to Murmansk at the same time with orders to assume command of the Allied Forces in North Russia, and with instructions to organise the Czecho-Slovaks, of whom there were said to be some 20,000 en route to Archangel and Murmansk; and these with any local troops he might be able to raise were to form the bulk of his force."

The 6th Bn began a return to UK on 16 June 1919 in the Pretorian, a second party on 23 June and a third party on 16 July.

Deployment

1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
1881 Nova Scotia: Halifax
1885 Malta
1885 Sudan
1888 Cyprus
1889 England: Portsmouth
1892 Jersey
1895 Ireland: Curragh
1897 Ireland: Dublin
1898 Gibraltar
1899.10 South Africa 10 Bde
1902 1st Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
1902 England: Sheffield
1904 England: Aldershot
1908 Egypt
1910 Sudan
1912 India: Sialkot
1914 Rawalpindi
1914.08 India
1919 Afghanistan
1919 Palestine
1920 India: Madras
1921.01.01 1st Battalion, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
1922 Secunderabad
1925 Egypt
1926 England: Strensall
1927 Shanghai
1928 England: Aldershot 1 Bde
1933 Portsmouth
1936 Malta
1938 Palestine
1939 England: Catterick
1939.10.06 France & Belgium 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div, BEF
1940.04.16 UK
1940.04.23 Norway 15 Bde, Sickleforce
1940.05.06 UK
1942.03.17 at sea
1942.05.20 India 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1942.09.12 at sea
1942.09.21 Iraq 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1942.11.12 Persia 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1943.02.06 Iraq & Palestine in transit
1943.03.14 Egypt 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1943.04.14 Syria 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1943.06.05 Egypt 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1943.06.29 at sea
1943.07.10 Sicily 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1943.09.03 Italy 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1944.06.19 at sea
1944.06.25 Egypt & Palestine & Syria 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1945.02.24 at sea
1945.03.03 NW Europe: Germany 15 Bde, 5 Inf Div
1945 UK
1947 Sudan
1949.08 Malaya
1952.12 England: Barnard Castle
1953 Germany: Minden 61 Bde, 6 Div
1956 Hong Kong
1959.06 Germany: Iserlohn 5 Bde
1962.04 Germany: ?
1963 Libya
1966 England: Colchester 19 Bde
1968 (British Honduras)
1968 England: Colchester 19 Bde
1969.11 Germany: Minden 11 Bde
1970.06 (Northern Ireland)
1970.09 Germany: Minden 11 Bde
1971.07 (Northern Ireland)
1971.11 England: Dover?
1972.10 (Northern Ireland)
1973.02 Dover?
1974.01 England: Chester aaa

1974.05 (Northern Ireland)
1974.09 England: Chester
1975.04 (Northern Ireland)
1974.08 England: Chester 42 Bde
1976.04 (Northern Ireland)
1976.05 England: Chester 42 Bde
1976 Berlin Berlin Bde
1978.09 Northern Ireland: Aldergrove ? Inf Bde
1980.03 England: Catterick 5 Field Force
1982.01 England: Catterick 24 Inf Bde
1983.01 Germany: Osnabrück 12 Armd Bde
1985.06 (Northern Ireland)
1985.11 Germany: Osnabrück 12 Armd Bde
1987.04 Northern Ireland: Londonderry 8 Inf Bde
1988.11 England: Catterick 24 Airmobile Bde
1989 (Falkland Islands)
1990 England: Catterick 24 Airmobile Bde
1993.03 England: Catterick 19 Mech Bde
1992.08 (Northern Ireland)
1993.01 England: Catterick 19 Mech Bde
1994.07 Germany: Osnabrück 7 Armd Bde
1996.10 (Bosnia)
1997.02 Germany: Osnabrück 7 Armd Bde
1999.02 B Coy - Macedonia
1999.06.12 B Coy - (Kosovo)
1999.09? Germany: Osnabrück 7 Armd Bde
2000.03 England: Warminster Inf Demo Bn

2002.04 Northern Ireland: Ballykelly
2004.02 England: Chepstow (Beachley Barracks) 160 Bde
2004.04 (Afghanistan)
2004. England: Chepstow (Beachley Barracks) 160 Bde
2006.06.06 2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th, and 33rd/76th) (Green Howards)
2006 (Bosnia/Kosovo) Op Oculus

2nd Battalion

1858.03.09 2nd Battalion, 19th Regiment of Foot
raised at Exeter
1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
1881 Ireland: Belfast
1882 Curragh
1885 Buttevant
1886 England: Aldershot
1890 India: Bangalore
1892 Burma
1897 India: Rhaniket/Jullunder
1899 Dagshai
1902 2nd Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
1902 Cawnpore
1904 Bombay
1906 South Africa
1909 England: York
1911 Blackdown
1913 Guernsey
1914.09 France and Flanders 7 Div
1915.12 France and Flanders 30 Div
1918.05 France and Flanders 11 Div
1919 Ireland: Tipperary
1921.01.01 2nd Battalion, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
1923 England: Dover
1925 West Indies
1927 Egypt
1929 Shanghai
1931.04 India: Poona
1934 Meerut
1937 NW Frontier
1939 Lahore
1944.05 India/Burma 82 West African Div
1946 Egypt & Sudan
1948? England
1949.03.31 disbanded at Richmond
1952.04.03 re-formed at Barnard Castle
1952.04 UK
1953.04 Egypt
1954.08.30 Cyprus
1955.12 UK
1956.05.01 disbanded (PSA)