The 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment was an infantry battalion of the British Army created in 1881 by the redesignation of the 84th Regiment of Foot in 1881. The battalion was in existence f
C-15, a British Mark I "male" tank, 25 September 1916. Photo by Ernest Brooks.
German paratroopers landing on Crete
British wounded evacuated to Alexandria
A Chindit column crossing a river in Burma
The 14th Infantry Brigade was a British Army formation during the Second Boer War, World War I, when it served on the Western Front, and World War II, when it fought in Crete and Tobruk, and then as C
2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
…Regiment was based in Khartoum in the Sudan on garrison duties. In July 1940 they were moved to Egypt and then to Palestine where they became part of the 14th Infantry Brigade. The battalion was again part of the 6th Infantry Division. In May 1940 the Brigade moved to Cairo and was then broken up. The 2nd Battalion went to…
Men of the 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment searching the ruins of a railway station for Japanese snipers, during the advance of the Fourteenth Army to Rangoon along the railway corridor, 13 April 1945.