York and Lancaster Regiment
The York and Lancaster Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1968. The regiment was created in the Childers Reforms of 1881 by the amalgamation of the 65th Regiment of Foot and the 84th Regiment of Foot. The regiment saw service in many small conflicts and both World War I and World War II until 1968, when the regiment chose to be disbanded rather than amalgamated with another regiment, one of only two infantry regiments in the British Army to do so, with the other being the Cameronians.
Cap badge of the York and Lancaster Regiment.
British soldiers landing at Trinkitat, February 1884 a sketch by Melton Prior
The Relief of Ladysmith. Sir George Stuart White greets Major Hubert Gough on 28 February. Painting by John Henry Frederick Bacon (1868–1914)
Graves of three soldiers of the York and Lancaster Regiment who died at Epinoy, France on 1 October 1918.
65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot
The 65th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756 as the 2nd Battalion, 12th Regiment of Foot. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 84th Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment in 1881.
The Battle of Bunker Hill, Howard Pyle
Field Marshal Thomas Grosvenor, Colonel of the regiment during much of the first half of the 19th century
Soldiers of the 65th Regiment, ca. 1860s
