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The Green Howards
(Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
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crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
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1688.11.20 |
Francis Lutterell's
Regiment of Foot
raised from independent companies in Devonshire;
also known until 1751 by the names of seven other colonels |
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1689.03.08 |
Thomas
Erle raised a regiment and subsequently (1691-1712) also became colonel
of the 19th Foot, thereby owning two regiments, the junior one sometimes
being called the 2nd Battalion (which disbanded 1698) |
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1751.07.01 |
19th Regiment
of Foot |
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1782.08.31 |
19th (The 1st
Yorkshire North Riding) Regiment of Foot |
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1875.10.29 |
19th (The 1st
Yorkshire North Riding - Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment of Foot
(named for Princess
Alexandra, Princess of Wales) |
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1881.07.01 |
The Princess
of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
reorganised as the county regiment of Yorkshire
North Riding, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry
[see below] |
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1902 |
Alexandra,
Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) |
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1921.01.01 |
The Green Howards
(Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) |
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2006.06.06 |
united
with The Prince of Wales's Own Regt of Yorkshire
, and The Duke of Wellington's Regt,
to form The Yorkshire Regiment
(14th/15th, 19th, and 33rd/76th Foot) |
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The
Green Howards (Army site) |
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The Green Howards,
by Edward McKillop Nicholl (Regimental site) |
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The
Green Howards, by Glenvil Roberts. |
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The
Green Howards, - a Brief Regimental History, by Edward McKillop
Nicholl. |
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The
Regiment Today, by Edward McKillop Nicholl. |
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Latest
News, by Edward McKillop Nicholl. |
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History
of the Nineteenth, 1845-1870, by Cathy Day. |
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The Green
Howards, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War). |
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The
Green Howards, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) |
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The
Green Howards, by Campbell Ricketts (Yorkshire Volunteers site) |
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RHQ and
Depot: |
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RHQ: Trinity Church Square, Richmond,
North Yorkshire |
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? Depot Battalion
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4th Brigade
Depot at Richmond [1873-1881] |
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19th Regimental
District at Richmond [1881-1905] |
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Border District [1905-07] |
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No. 5 District [1907-1921] |
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Northumbrian Area [1921-1946] |
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E Group
at Catterick [1946-48] |
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Yorkshire
Brigade at York [1948-1968] |
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King's
Division at York [1968-2006] |
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Regulars: |
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[1st
Battalion] [1688-2006] |
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2nd
Battalion [1689-1698, 1858-1949, 1952-1956] |
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2nd
Battalion [1756-1758] |
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Militia
and Special Reserve: |
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3rd
Battalion (5th West York Regiment of Militia) [1882-1953] |
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4th
Battalion (North York Rifle Regiment of Militia) [1881-1908] |
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Territorials and Volunteers: |
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1st
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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2nd
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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4th
Battalion [1908-1961] |
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4th/5th
Battalion, The Green Howards (Yorkshire Volunteers) [1961-1967,
1993-1999] |
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5th
Battalion [1908-1947] |
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Yorkshire
Volunteers [1967-1993] |
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The
East and West Riding Regiment [1999-2006] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/4th Battalion [1914-1917] |
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4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919] |
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2/5th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916] |
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6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919] |
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6th Battalion [1939-1942] |
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7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918] |
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7th Battalion [1939-1946] |
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8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919] |
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8th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919] |
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9th Garrison Battalion [1940-1941] |
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10th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918] |
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10th
(East Riding Yeomanry) Battalion [1940-1943] |
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11th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916] |
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11th Battalion [1940-1946] |
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12th (Service) Battalion (Tees-side Pioneers)
[1915-1918] |
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12th Battalion [1940-1942] |
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13th (Home Defence) Battalion [1940-1941]
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13th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919] |
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14th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916] |
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15th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916] |
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16th (Labour) Battalion [1916-1917] |
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17th (Home Service) Battalion [1916-1917]
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18th Battalion [1917-1919] |
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19th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918] |
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30th Battalion [1941-1946] |
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50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940] |
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1st Garrison Battalion [1919-1918] |
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2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion [1916-1917]
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Malplaquet,
Belleisle,
Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Tirah,
Relief of Kimberley,
Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War (24 battalions): Ypres
1914 '15 '17,
Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Neuve Chapelle, St Julien, Frezenburg,
Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916
'18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette,
Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras
1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Messines 1917 '18, Pilckem,
Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele,
Cambrai 1917 '18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918,
Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck,
Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Aisne 1918, Drocourt Quéant, Hindenburg
Line, Canal du Nord, Beaurevoir, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre,
France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave,
Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla,
Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915,
Egypt 1916, Archangel
1918
Afghanistan
1919
The Second World War: Otta,
Norway 1940, Defence of Arras, Dunkirk 1940,
Normandy Landing,
Tilly sur Seulles, St Pierre La Vielle, Gheel, Nederrijn,
North-West Europe 1940
'44-45,
Gazala,
Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, Mareth, Akarit, North
Africa 1942-43, Landing
in Sicily, Lentini, Sicily 1943, Minturno,
Anzio, Italy 1943-44,
Arakan Beaches, Burma 1945
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
?-1881: scarlet;
facings: grass green
1881-1899: scarlet; facings: white
1899-1953: scarlet; facings: grass green
1953-2006: blue; facings: grass green; piping: grass
green
headdress:
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1914.06.22 |
HM
Queen Alexandra |
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1942.05.12 |
HM
Haakon VII, King of Norway, KG, GCB, GCVO |
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1958.08.19 |
HM
Olav V, King of Norway, KG, KT, GCB, GCVO |
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1992.02.06 |
Hon. Gen. HM
Harald V, King of Norway, GCVO |
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1688.11.20 |
Col. Francis Luttrell |
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1691.01.01 |
Gen. Thomas Erle |
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1712.01.22 |
Brig-Gen. George Freke |
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1712.04.03 |
Lt-Gen. Richard Sutton [also
Sutton's Foot] |
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1715.08.05 |
Col. George Grove |
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1729.10.27 |
Lt-Gen. Richard Sutton
[reappointed] |
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1738.11.01 |
Gen. Hon. Sir Charles Howard, KB |
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1748.03.15 |
Lt-Gen. Lord George Beauclerk |
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1768.05.25 |
Gen. David Graeme of Gorthry [also
49th Foot, 105th Hldrs] |
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1797.01.24 |
F.M.
Sir Samuel Hulse, Bt., GCH |
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1810.06.25 |
Gen. Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple, Bt |
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1811.04.27 |
Gen. Sir Tomkins Hilgrove Turner, GCH, KC |
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1843.05.31 |
Gen. Sir Warren Marmaduke Peacocke, KCH |
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1849.09.01 |
Lt-Gen. Charles Turner |
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1854.06.15 |
F.M.
Sir William Rowan, GCB |
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1861.03.10 |
Gen. Sir Abraham Josias Cloete, KCB, KH |
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1886.10.27 |
Gen. Sir Robert Onesiphorus Bright, GCB |
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1896.11.16 |
Lt-Gen. Edward Chippindall, CB |
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1902.09.14 |
Maj-Gen. William Spencer Cooper |
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1906.10.02 |
Lt-Gen. Sir William Edmund Franklyn, KCB |
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1914.10.28 |
Gen. Sir Edward Stanislaus Bulfin, KCB,
CVO |
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1939.08.21 |
Gen. Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, KCB, DSO,
MC |
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1949.10.21 |
Maj-Gen. Alfred Eryk Robinson, CB, DSO |
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1959.11.01 |
Brig. George Wilfred Eden, CBE |
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1965.11.01 |
Maj-Gen. Desmond Spencer Gordon, CB, CBE,
DSO, JP |
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1975.01.01 |
Brig. John Britton Oldfield, OBE, DL |
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1982.07.19 |
F.M.
The Rt. Hon. Peter Anthony (Inge), The Baron Inge, KG, GCB
[also Col. Cmdt. RMP, APTC;
CGS,
CDS] |
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1994.12.01 |
Gen. Sir Francis Richard Dannatt,
KCB, CBE, MC [also Col. AAC;
Col. Cmdt. Provost Branch AGC,
King's Div]
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2003.05.11 |
Brig. John Stewart Wadsworth Powell, OBE |
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Victoria
Crosses [19th Foot], by Mike Chapman (VC
Reference). |
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Victoria
Crosses [Green Howards], by Mike Chapman
(VC Reference). |
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Victoria
Crosses [Yorkshire Regt], by Mike Chapman
(VC Reference). |
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Medals
Won by the Regiment, by Edward McKillop Nicholl. |
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VCs
in the Green Howards Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. |
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List
of Casualties in the Crimean War, by Edward McKillop Nicholl. |
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Officers
Who Served in the Hazara Campaign, 1868, by Edward McKillop Nicholl. |
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Diaries
and Service Journals in the Regimental Museum, by Edward
McKillop Nicholl. |
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Service
of Patrick McNamara, 1847-1870, by Edward McKillop Nicholl. |
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The
Service Journal of Charlie Usherwood, 1857-1864 |
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An
Experience of Twelve Months Active Service on the Veldt [1899-1900],
by 3213 Private John Jackson. |
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George
Henry Ord, 10th Bn, 1914-1918, by D. Ord. |
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The
War of a Green Howard, 1939-1945, by Bill Cheall. |
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Ken's
War Memories [1940-1946], by Kenneth Robinson. |
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Motto: |
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Nicknames: |
The Green Howards
[adopted ca. 1744 to distinguish by facing colour Charles Howard's
Regiment from Thomas Howard's Regiment - The
Buffs; in both instances the nickname evolved into the formal
title] |
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Anniversaries: |
Alma
(20 Sept.) |
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Freedoms: |
Beverley (1946),
Bridlington (1945), Middlesbrough (1947), Northallerton (1979), Pickering
(1980), Redcar (1958), Richmond (1958), Scarborough (1945), Teeside
(1976) |
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Marches: |
quick (1868):
The Bonnie English Rose
slow (1742): Maria Theresa [score presented by Empress Maria
Theresa to Col. Howard] |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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The Green Howards gazette. |
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Full Histories:
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record
of the Nineteenth, or The First Yorkshire North Riding Regiment of
Foot, containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688,
and of its subsequent services to 1848. London : Parker, Furnivall
& Parker, 1848. |
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Ferrar, M. L. (Michael Lloyd). A history
of the services of the 19th Regiment, now Alexandra, Princess of Wales's
Own (Yorkshire regiment) : from its formation in 1688 to 1911.
London : Eden Fisher & Company, 1911. |
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Powell, Geoffrey. The Green Howards
(the 19th Regiment of Foot). London : Hamilton, 1968. (Famous
regiments) ISBN: 0241913896 |
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Powell, Geoffrey. ; Powell, J. S. W. The
Green Howards : the 19th Regiment of Foot. New ed. London
: Secker & Warburg, 1983. (Famous regiments) ISBN: 0436379104
(pbk.) |
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Powell, Geoffrey. The history of the
Green Howards : three hundred years of service. London : Arms
and Armour, 1992. ISBN: 1854091492 |
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Powell, Geoffrey. ; Powell, J. S. W. The
history of the Green Howards : three hundred years of service.
Rev. and enl. ed. Barnsley : Leo Cooper, 2002. ISBN: 0850528577 |
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Ferrar, M. L. (Michael Lloyd). Bygone
days. Belfast : R. Caswell, 1924. |
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Short Histories:
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The History of the Green Howards :
a series of short lectures. Aldershot : Gale & Polden Ltd.,
1940. |
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The History of the Green Howards :
a series of short lectures : the Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess
of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) : (19). Aldershot : Gale
& Polden, 1954. |
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Ferrar, M. L. (Michael Lloyd) (ed.). Selections
from the Green Howards' Gazette. Belfast : pr. by Baird, 1934.
[Limited ed. of 50 copies] |
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The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess
of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), 1688-1997. Hemel Hempstead
: Nexus Special Interests, 1997. (Regiment ; 24) |
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First World War:
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Wylly, H. C. (Harold Carmichael). The
Green Howards in the Great War. Richmond, England : [s.n.]
(Butler & Tanner), 1926. |
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Marsay, Mark. Baptism of fire : an
account of the 5th Green Howards at the Battle of St Julien, during
the Second Battle of Ypres, April 1915. Scarborough : Great
Northern Pub., 1999. ISBN: 0953520404 |
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The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess
of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) : for valour, 1914-1918.
Richmond : [s.n., 1919?] |
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Fife, Ronald. The history of the 7th
Battalion Green Howards (1914-1918), a narrative extract from the
Green Howards gazette. Richmond : Green Howards, 1935. |
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12th (Service) Battalion Princess
of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment (Teeside Pioneers). [s.l.
: s.n., ca. 1920] |
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Second World War:
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Whiting, Charles ; Taylor, Eric. The
fighting tykes : an informal history of the Yorkshire regiments in
the Second World War. London : Leo Cooper, 1993. ISBN: 0850523575
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Synge, William Alfred Thackeray. The
story of The Green Howards, 1939-1945. Richmond : Green Howards,
1952. |
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Other Wars: |
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Ferrar, M. L. (Michael Lloyd). With
the Green Howards in South Africa, 1899-1902. London : E.
Fisher, 1904. |
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Oldfield, John Briton. The Green Howards
in Malaya, 1949-1952; the story of a post-war tour of duty by a battalion
of the line. Aldershot : Gale and Polden, 1953. |
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Curtis, Nicky. Faith & duty.
London : André Deutsch, 1998. ISBN: 0233994157 [Northern
Ireland] |
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Special Topics: |
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1st Battalion The Green Howards (Alexandra,
Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), London, Wellington Barracks,
8th August to 1st September 1930. Aldershot : Gale & Polden,
1930. |
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Ferrar, M. L. (Michael Lloyd). Officers
of the Green Howards, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire
Regiment), (formerly the 19th Foot) 1688 to 1920. London :
E. Fisher, 1920. |
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Ferrar, M. L. (Michael Lloyd). Officers
of the Green Howards: Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire
Regiment), formerly the 19th Foot, 1688-1931. Belfast : W.
& G. Baird, 1931. |
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Chapman, Roger (J. Roger). Beyond
their duty : heroes of the Green Howards : Green Howards who were
awarded the Victoria and George Crosses. Richmond : Green
Howards Museum, 2001. ISBN: 0954014103 |
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Kingston, W. H. G. (William Herbert Gavin).
Follow the drum: the story of regimental music and the soldier
musicians of the Green Howards. Richmond : The Green Howards,
1969. ISBN: 0902109006 |
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Forbes, John Mason. The Green Howards
Museum, Richmond, Yorkshire. Derby : English Life Publications,
1974. ISBN: 0851010865 |
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Manuscripts
and Archives: |
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Orderly
Books of the Crown Forces in America 1775-1784, compiled by John
K. Robertson, Don Hagist, Todd Braisted, and Don Londahl-Smidt (RevWar'75) |
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