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14thFoot raised in 1685 as Hales Regiment, became the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1881.

The 1st Battalion was in India for 23 years continuous service and for this service the regiment was awarded the Royal Tiger in 1831. In 1873 it was awarded another royal badge, the white horse of Hanover. It was in 1876 new Colours were presented to the 1st Battalion in India, it received the title Prince of Wales Own and his plume as a Colour badge.

The Colours and Memorials are in York Minster and Bradford Cathedral.

1685.06.22 Sir Edward Hales's Regiment of Foot
raised at Canterbury; also known until 1751 by the names of other colonels
1751.07.01 14th Regiment of Foot
1782.08.31 14th (the Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
1809.05 14th (the Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
exchanged county titles with 16th Foot
1876.06.06 14th (Buckinghamshire - The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
(named for the future King Edward VII)
1881.07.01 The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
reorganised as the county regiment of West Yorkshire, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below]
1921.01.01 The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)
1958.04.25 amalgamated with The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), to form The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire

Battle Honours WW1

The Great War [31 battalions]: Aisne 1914 '18, Armentières 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Bullecourt, Hill 70, Messines 1917 '18, Ypres 1917 '18, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Marne 1918, Tardenois, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915-16

 

Battle Honours WW2
The Second World War: North-West Europe 1940, Jebel Dafeis, Keren, Ad Teclesan, Abyssinia 1940-41, Cauldron, Defence of Alamein Line, North Africa 1940-42, Pegu 1942, Yenangyaung 1942, North Arakan, Maungdaw, Defence of Sinzweya, Imphal, Bishenpur, Kanglatongbi, Meiktila, Capture of Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Rangoon Road, Pyawbwe, Sittang 1945, Burma 1942-45

 

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

Deployment
1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
1881 England: Portland
1883 Ireland: Galway
<1889> Fermoy
1891 England: Preston
<1894> Aldershot
1895 Gibraltar
1896 China: Hong Kong
1897 Singapore
1899 India: Karachi
1902 Quetta
1904 Meean Meer
1906 Rawalpindi, Dalhousie
1908 Kuldhana
1911 England: Lichfield 18 Bde
1914.09 France and Flanders 6 Div
1917.11 Italy 69 Bde, 23 Div
1918.11 Italy
1919 England: York
1921 Ireland: Kinsale
1922 Germany Army of Occupation
1926 Ireland: Belfast
1929 West Indies
1931 Egypt
1934.03 India: Quetta
1936 Secunderabad
1938 Bombay
1939.09 Bombay
1942.01 Burma
1944.09 India
1945.02 India 17 Ind Inf Div
1946 Austria
1948.11.20 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title
1952 UK
1953.07 Malaya
1955.03 Northern Ireland
1956. Suez 19 Bde
1956 Northern Ireland
1957 England: Dover
1958.04.25 amalgamated at Dover with 1st Bn, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), to form 1st Bn, The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire

2nd Battalion

1804 2nd Battalion, 14th Regiment of Foot

1809 Walcheren

1816 disbanded

1858 2nd Battalion, 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
re-formed in Ireland
1858 Ireland
1860 New Zealand
1866 Australia
1870 England
1876 Ireland
1878 India
1880 Afghanistan
1880 India
1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
1881 India: Sialkot
1885 Mooltan
<1889> Mean Meer
<1892> Seetapore
1893 Burma
1894 Aden
1895.12 Gold Coast
1896 England: Dover
1897 Aldershot
1899.10.19 at sea ship: Roslin Castle
1899.11.08 Cape Colony: Cape Town
1899.11.11 Natal: Durban
1899.11 South Africa 2 Bde
1902.05 Transvaal
1904 Ireland: Belfast
1906 England: Aldershot
1910 Colchester
1912 Malta
1914.11 France and Flanders 8 Div
1919 UK
1921 India
1921 NW Frontier: Peshawar
1921 Peshawar
1923 Kurdistan
1925 Bombay
1929 Sudan
1931 England: Strensall
1933 Aldershot 1 Bde
1937 Aldershot MG bn, 5 Div
1938 Palestine
1939.09 Palestine
1940.01.01 Sudan 9 Ind Inf Bde, 5 Ind Inf Div
1940.07.24 Abyssinia: Sudan 21 Bde
1940.10.12 Abyssinia: Sudan 29 Ind Inf Bde
1941.06.27 Egypt 9 Ind Inf Bde, 5 Ind Inf Div
1941.08.28 Palestine
1941.09.08 Iraq
1941.10.14 Palestine
1941.11.04 Cyrpus
1942.04.05 Egypt
1942.10.10 Iraq
1943.05.18 India
1943.12.13 Burma
1945.08.28 at sea (embarked at Rangoon)
1945. Dutch East Indies: Java
1946 Malaya: Penang
1948 UK
1948. reduced to cadre
1948.11.20 amalgamated in Austria with 1st Battalion