33rd Regiment of Foot

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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

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