The Royal Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) (abbreviated R YORKS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, created by the amalgamation...
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The York Medal is an annual, regiment wide, commemorative medal presented to an individual from the British Army's Yorkshire Regiment who has been considered...
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Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. In 1958 it amalgamated with the East Yorkshire Regiment...
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changed to the 33rd (or First Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment, thus formalising an association with the West Riding of Yorkshire which, even then, had been...
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The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King's Division. It was created in 1958 by the...
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The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army. It officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors...
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Crossing. In 1956, it merged with two other Yorkshire yeomanry regiments to form the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry. Its lineage is continued today by...
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Lieutenant of Yorkshire Royal Yorkshire Regiment Yorkshire Ambulance Service Yorkshire and the Humber Yorkshire coast fishery Yorkshire Forward Yorkshire pudding...
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Henry Tandey (category Duke of Wellington's Regiment soldiers)
Peter's School. Tandey donated his medals to the Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire. On special occasions and parades he...
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North York Rifle Militia (redirect from 2nd North Yorkshire Militia)
the North Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 the Militia regiments of the riding served...
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Brian Faulkner (British Army soldier) (category British Parachute Regiment soldiers)
the Parachute Regiment in the British Army and a veteran of the Falklands War during which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for bravery...
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Fusiliers, Royal Fusiliers, West Yorkshire Regiment, Royal North Lancashire Regiment, Royal West Kent Regiment, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Seaforth...
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Lancaster) Regiment of Foot was a regiment in the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North...
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Huddersfield (redirect from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)
Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and the Green Howards' to form the Yorkshire Regiment on 6 June 2006 the right to march became extinct. The Regiment requested...
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East York Militia (redirect from 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment)
Riding of Yorkshire. The Militia and its predecessors had always been important in Yorkshire, and from its formal creation in 1759 the regiment served in...
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Samuel Meekosha (category West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers)
He was 22 years old, and a corporal in the 1/6th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), British Army based at Belle Vue Barracks...
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Leeds (redirect from Leeds, Yorkshire)
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan...
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Joel Holmes (category York and Lancaster Regiment soldiers)
Lancaster Regiment Museum at Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. "No. 22154". The London Gazette. 18 June 1858. p. 2958. Location of grave and VC medal (West...
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Zachary Stenning (category Yorkshire Regiment officers)
2012, he saw active service as commanding officer of 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment in Afghanistan during Operation Herrick. In March 2013, he was advanced...
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George Sanders (VC) (category West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers)
promoted to corporal to the 1/7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), British Army during the First World War...
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Green Howards Regimental Museum (category Yorkshire Regiment)
North Yorkshire, England. The Green Howards were amalgamated with The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, all...
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Bill Burgess (category Pages using infobox swimmer with show-medals enabled)
with the York and Lancaster Regiment. Burgess' maternal uncle was a head teacher at a school in Swinton, South Yorkshire. Burgess' sister married in London...
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John Ryan (VC 1863) (category York and Lancaster Regiment soldiers)
Officer, with Privates Bulford and Talbot, of the same Regiment, who have been recommended for the Medal for distinguished conduct in the Field, for their...
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Anglian Regiment is an infantry regiment of the British Army. It consists of two Regular battalions and one Reserve battalion. The modern regiment was formed...
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Huddersfield Rifles (redirect from 6th (The Huddersfield) Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps)
The former West Yorkshire Brigade was split in two, and all four TF battalions of the battalions of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment composed the new...
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Punjab Medal (1849) Army of India Medal (1851) India General Service Medal (1854) South Africa Medal (1854) Crimean War Medal (1854) Baltic Medal (1856)...
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of Wales's Royal Regiment when in UK The Queen's & Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Regimental Museum is in Dover Castle. Medals and awards awarded...
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Issy Smith (category Manchester Regiment soldiers)
honours. His medals were sold by his family in 1990, and auctioned 5 years later as part of a special collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment, selling...
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William Basil Weston (category West Yorkshire Regiment officers)
(Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), British Army, attached to 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment during the Second World War when...
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bravery, the CGC replaced both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (Army) and the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (Naval and Air) as second level awards to other ranks...
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