Hedley Verity
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Hedley Verity was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England between 1930 and 1939. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he took 1,956 wickets in first-class cricket at an average of 14
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Wilfred Rhodes, Verity's predecessor as Yorkshire's left-arm spinner
Bowes and Verity in 1932
Douglas Jardine, Verity's captain in Australia and India, was an admirer of Verity.
Green Howards
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The Green Howards, frequently known as the Yorkshire Regiment until the 1920s, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, in the King's Division. Raised in 1688, it served under various titles
Hedley Verity
…cricket. Verity continued to play for Yorkshire and England until 1939, when the outbreak of the Second World War ended his career. Verity joined the Green Howards in 1939, and after training was posted overseas to India, Persia and Egypt, achieving the rank of captain. During the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943…
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c. 1742 engraving of a regimental private
1st Battalion Warrant Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers in the garrison of the Imperial fortress of Bermuda, circa 1879–1880
Officers of the 1st Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, at a training camp in Castleton, Derbyshire, July 1904. Seated in the centre of the second row is Lieutenant Colonel Granville Egerton, the battalion's CO.