33rd Regiment of Foot

Also known as The Yorkshire Regiment

Chronology

• 1702 raised as Earl of Huntingdon's Regiment of Foot
• 1751 became the 33rd Regiment of Foot
• 1782 became the 33rd (the 1st Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot
• 1853 became the 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot
• 1881 amalgamated with 76th Regiment of Foot and became the Halifax Regiment (The Duke of Wellington's Own) then Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
• 1920 became the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
• 2006 amalgamated with other Yorkshire regiments becoming The Yorkshire Regiment

External Links

East Yorkshire Regiment Wikipedia
Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Wikipedia
Yorkshire Regiment Wikipedia
Yorkshire Regiment Family Tree www.army.mod.uk
33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot including 1st Battalion deployments Regiments.org (archived site)

Historical books online

• "Notes, Sanitary and Medical, on Colaba, Bombay , as a Military Station" by William Hanbury, Esq., Surgeon, H. M.'s 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment , page 248 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume VIII, New Series 1862 Google Books