The Prince of Wales’s Own

The East Yorkshire Regiment

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
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

14th-Foot

15th-Foot
1782: 14th (Bedfordshire)
Regiment of Foot

15th (Yorkshire East Riding)
Regiment of Foot

1799:

2nd Bn raised
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



14th Foot
15th Foot
The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms
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
West-Yorkshire
East-Yorkshire
WYorks
EYorks
1920: The West Yorkshire Regiment
(Prince of Wales’s Own)



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
layout layout
1958: 1st Battalion,
The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire
brigade renamed in
The Yorkshire Brigade
Yorkshire
1968:
part of
The King’s Division
POWORY
2006: 1st Battalion,
The Yorkshire Regiment
(14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)

(Prince of Wales’s Own)
YORKS
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)