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East Yorkshire Regiment

The East Yorkshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1685 as Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot and later renamed the 15th Regiment of Foot. It saw service for three centuries, before eventually being amalgamated with the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) in 1958, to form the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire. Subsequently, the regiment amalgamated with the Green Howards and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) to form the Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) on 6 June 2006.

East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)

1685–1958

 Kingdom of England (1685–1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1958)

 British Army

Line infantry

Infantry

1–2 Regular battalions
1 Militia Battalion
2 Territorial battalions
Up to 16 Hostilities-only battalions

Victoria Barracks, Beverley

The Snappers[1]
The Poona Guards[2]

Quebec (13 September)

Regimental Museum[edit]

The regimental collection is held by the York Army Museum which is based at the Tower Street drill hall in York.[60]

The Snappers[edit]

The London and North Eastern Railway named one of its V2 locomotives, No. 4780 (later No 809 and then British Railways 60809) as The Snapper. The East Yorkshire Regiment. The Duke of York's Own[61]

Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Louisburg, Quebec 1759, Martinique 1762, Havannah, St. Lucia 1778, Martinique 1794 1809, Guadeloupe 1810, Afghanistan 1879–80, South Africa 1900–02.

The Great War (21 battalions): Aisne 1914 '18, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Oppy, Messines 1917 '18, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Struma, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915–18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915–16.

The Second World War: Withdrawal to Escaut, Defence of Escaut, Defence of Arras, French Frontier 1940, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Tilly sur Seulles, Odon, Caen, Bourguébus Ridge, Troarn, Mont Pincon, St. Pierre la Vielle, Gheel, Nederrijn, Aam, Venraij, Rhineland, Schaddenhof, Brinkum, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 '44–45, Gazala, Mersa Matruh, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, Mareth, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, North Africa 1942–43, Primosole Bridge, Sicily 1943, Sittang 1945, Burma 1945.

The regiment's battle honours were as follows:[4]

Private , Great War

George William Chafer

Private , Great War

John Cunningham

Second Lieutenant , Great War

John Harrison

Sergeant , Great War

Harold Jackson

Private , Second World War

Eric Anderson

The following members of the regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross:

1685–1686: Col.

Sir William Clifton, 3rd Baronet

1686–1687: Col.

Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington

1687–1688: Col. Hon.

Sackville Tufton

1688–1695: Col. Sir

James Lesley

1695–1709: Lt-Gen. Hon.

Emanuel Scrope Howe

1709–1715: Gen. and Earl of Hertford

Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset

1715–1749: Lt-Gen. Henry Harrison

1749–1756: Col. John Jordan

Bilton, David (2015) Hull in the Great War 1914–1919, Barnsley: Pen & Sword,  978-1-47382-314-3.

ISBN

Bilton, David (2014) Hull Pals, 10th, 11th 12th and 13th Battalions East Yorkshire Regiment – A History of 92 Infantry Brigade, 31st Division, Barnsley: Pen & Sword,  978-1-78346-185-1.

ISBN

(1848). Historical record of the 15th or the Yorkshire East Riding Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent services to 1848. CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches; no. 48492. Parker Furnivall & Parker. ISBN 9780665484926.

Cannon, Richard

Joslen, Lt-Col H.F. (2003). Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield: Naval & Military Press.  1-84342-474-6.

ISBN

Everard Wyrall, The East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War 1914–1918, London: Harrison, 1928/Uckfield,Naval & Military, 2002,  978-1-84342-211-2.

ISBN

1 Btn War Diary 1945 WO 172/7677.

1 Btn War Diary 1944 WO 172/4931.