1859: | 5th Yorkshire West Riding RVC(I) 6th Yorkshire West Riding RVC(I) │ |
11th Yorkshire West Riding RVC │ │ |
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1860: | 1st Yorkshire West Riding RVC 16th Yorkshire West Riding RVC 17th Yorkshire West Riding RVC 27th Yorkshire West Riding RVC 31st Yorkshire West Riding RVC 33rd Yorkshire West Riding RVC │ |
38th Yorkshire West Riding RVC │ |
both merged as 5th Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps(I) │ │ │ │ |
11th Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps │ │ │ │ │ |
22nd Yorkshire West Riding RVC │ │ │ │ │ │ |
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all part of 1st Administrative Battalion of Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteers │ |
part of 3rd Administrative Battalion of Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteers │ |
3rd Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps(II) │ │ │ |
7th Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps(II) │ │ │ |
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1863: | 38th Yorkshire West Riding RVC 33rd Yorkshire West Riding RVC disbanded │ |
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1864: | │ │ │ │ |
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7th Yorkshire West Riding (Leeds) Rifle Volunteer Corps │ |
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Consolidation and renumbering of the Volunteer Force | |||||||||
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1880: | consolidated as 1st Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps │ |
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The creation of the territorial regiments by the Childers reforms | |||||||||
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1887: | 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) |
2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) |
3rd Volunteer Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) |
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Creation of the Territorial Force | |||||||||
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1908: | 5th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) (TF) |
6th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) (TF) |
7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles), The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) (TF) |
8th Battalion (Leeds Rifles), The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) (TF) |
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1914/ 1918: |
1/5th Battalion, 2/5th Battalion, 3/5th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Infantry) │ |
1/6th Battalion, 2/6th Battalion, 3/6th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Infantry) │ |
1/7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, 2/7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, 3/7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Infantry) │ |
1/8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, 2/8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, 3/8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Infantry) │ |
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Creation of the Territorial Army | |||||||||
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1921: | 5th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own) (TA) |
6th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own) (TA) |
7th/8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) (TA) |
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7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) (TA) │ │ |
66th (Leeds Rifles, The West Yorkshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1937: | │ │ │ │ |
49th (The West Yorkshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers (TA) │ |
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1938: | │ │ │ |
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45th (7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment) Battalion, The Royal Tank Corps (TA) |
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45th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, The Royal Tank Regiment (TA)
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1939: | 1/5th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own) │ │ |
2/5th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own) │ │ |
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51th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, The Royal Tank Regiment (TA) │ │ │ |
66th (Leeds Rifles, The West Yorkshire Regiment) Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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49th (The West Yorkshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
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66th (Leeds Rifles) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery │ |
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1942: | 5th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own) |
113th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps |
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1944: | │ │ │ │ |
14th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own) │ |
49th Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery (The West Yorkshire Regiment) │ |
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1945: | │ │ │ │ |
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601st Regiment, Royal Artillery (The West Yorkshire Regiment) │ |
45th (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment │ │ |
51st (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment │ │ |
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1947: | 5th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own) (TA) │ │ |
disbanded | 584st (Mobile) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (6th West Yorkshire) (TA) │ |
45th/51st (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment (TA) │ │ │ |
466th (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (Leeds Rifles) (TA) │ |
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1954: | │ │ │ │ |
584st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (6th West Yorkshire) (TA) │ |
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466th (Leeds Rifles) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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from 491st (Mixed) Heavy Ant-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) and 496th (Mixed) Heavy Ant-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) │ |
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1955: | │ │ │ │ |
Q (The West Yorkshire Regiment) Battery, 370st (West Riding) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA) |
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1956: | │ │ │ |
7th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) (TA) |
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1960: | 3rd Battalion, The Prince of Wale’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire (TA) |
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1961: | │ │ │ |
The Leeds Rifles, Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire (TA) |
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Creation of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve | |||||||||
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1967: | disbanded and formed HQ Company, A Company (The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire), The Yorkshire Volunteers and The Prince of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Territorials |
disbanded and formed elements of A Company (The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire), The Yorkshire Volunteers and The Leeds Rifle Territorials |
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