Great Britain

The Prince of Wales’s Own

The East Yorkshire Regiment

	Kingdom of England
1685:	Edward Hale’s Regiment of Foot │	William Clifton’s Regiment of Foot │
1686:	│ │	Earl of Torrington’s │
1687:	│ │	Sackville Tufton’s │
1688:	William Beveridge’s │	James Leslie’s │
1692:	John Tidcomb’s │	│ │
1695:	│ │	Emmanuel Scrope Howe’s │
1707:	Kingdom of Great Britain
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1709:	│ │	Duke of Somerset’s │
1713:	Jasper Clayton’s │	│ │
1715:	│ │	Henry Harrison’s │
1743:	John Price’s │	│ │
1747:	William Herbert’s │	│ │
1749:	│ │	John Jordan’s │
1751:	14th Regiment of Foot │	15th Regiment of Foot │
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1782:	14th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot │	15th (Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot │
1799:	│ │ │	2nd Bn raised │
1801:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1802:	│ │ │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1804:	2nd Bn raised │	2nd Bn raised │
1809:	14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │
1813:	3rd Bn raised │	│ │
1816:	2nd Bn and 3rd Bn disbanded │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1858:	2nd Bn raised │	2nd Bn raised │
1876:	14th (Prince of Wales’s Own) Regiment of Foot │	│ │ │
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	The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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1881:	1st Bn,    2nd Bn,	1st Bn,    2nd Bn,
	The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s Own) │
	The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)	The East Yorkshire Regiment
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1920:	The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) │	│ │ │
1922:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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1935:	│ │ │	The East Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of York’s Own) │
1948:	2nd Bn disbanded │	│ │
1948:	part of The Yorkshire and Northumberland Brigade │	part of The Yorkshire and Northumberland Brigade │
1949:	│ │	2nd Bn disbanded │
1958:	1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire
	brigade renamed in The Yorkshire Brigade │
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1968:	part of The King’s Division │
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2006:	1st Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) (Prince of Wales’s Own)
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2013:	2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) │
2023:	2nd Battalion, The Royal Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) │