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It was a moving and poignant morning at the annual Colsterdale Memorial Remembrance Service on Tuesday, 1st July 2025. Members of The Prince of Wales’s Own (West & East Yorkshire) Regimental Association, including standard bearers, gathered to pay their respects to the fallen of the 15th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Leeds Pals) from […]
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On this 75th Anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, our Regimental Secretary attended a moving service at the Korean War Memorial in London, led by the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea. It was a profound honour to represent The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment and The Royal Yorkshire Regiment in remembering and paying […]
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This past weekend, members of The Royal Yorkshire Regiment, led by the Colonel of the Regiment, Major General Zac Stenning, returned to the historic shores of Normandy to honour the profound legacy of our forebears. From walking the sands of Sword and Gold beaches where Yorkshiremen fought with immense bravery, to moments of quiet reflection […]
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🇰🇷🇬🇧 This week, we welcomed the Korean Ambassador to York, where he laid a wreath at the Korean War Memorial in honour of those who served—and those who never returned. The Ambassador met with Korean War veterans and their families, paying tribute to the brave soldiers of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, an antecedent of […]
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The regimental family is sad to announce the passing of Private Josateki Kautani Matasere. Known to his friends and family as ‘Teki’, he joined the British Army in March 2021, serving with Alma Company, 2nd Battalion in Cyprus providing force protection to the Sovereign Base Area strategic sites. In August 2022 he deployed to Germany […]
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In this week of #remembrance, we honour The #Yorkshire Pals Battalions. When WW1 broke out on 5th August 1914 Field Marshal Lord Kitchener soon realised the professional British Army was too small to take on the Germans. Sir Henry Rawlinson suggested to Kitchener that men would be more likely to enlist if they served with […]
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The week of #remembrance 2023 commenced with our annual service at York Minster, attended by two Colonels of the Regt, three Generals, three Commanding Officers, serving personnel, veterans from all of our antecedent regiments, an army of standard bearers, Army Cadets UK from Cleveland ACF, families of our fallen and babes in arms. One Regiment […]
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A Service of #Remembrance was held in our regimental chapel in the magnificent York Minster on Saturday 5 November 2022. An opportunity for the regimental family to remember our fallen, and to give thanks for those who continue to Serve our communities, the great County of #Yorkshire and our King. Fortune Favours The Brave.