Great Britain

The Princess of Wales’s Own

Kingdom of England
 
1688: Francis Luttrell’s
Regiment of Foot
1689: 2nd Bn raised
1691: Thomas Erle’s
1698: 2nd Bn disbanded
1707: Kingdom of Great Britain
1712: George Freke’s
1712: Richard Sutton’s
1715: George Grove’s
1729: Richard Sutton’s
1738: Charles Howard’s
1748: George Beauclerk’s
1751: 19th Regiment of Foot
1756: 2nd Bn raised
1758: 2nd Bn66th Foot

19th-Foot
1782: 19th (1st Yorkshire North Riding)
Regiment of Foot

1801: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1858: 2nd Bn raised
1875: 19th (1st Yorkshire North Riding
Princess of Wales’s Own)
Regiment of Foot

19th Foot
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
layout
1881: 1st Bn,    2nd Bn,
The North Yorkshire Regiment
(Princess of Wales’s Own)
The Princess of Wales’s Own
(Yorkshire Regiment)
Yorkshire
Yorks
1902: Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own
(Yorkshire Regiment)
Yorks
Yorks
1920: The Green Howards
(Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own
Yorkshire Regiment)

1922: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1948:
part of
The Yorkshire and Northumberland Brigade
1949: 2nd Bn disbanded
1951: Yorks
1952: 2nd Bn raised
1956: 2nd Bn disbanded
1958:
brigade renamed in
The Yorkshire Brigade
Yorkshire
1968:
part of
The King’s Division
1970: GH
2007: 2nd Battalion,
The Yorkshire Regiment
(14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)

(Green Howards)
YORKS
2013: merged into 1st and 3rd Bn