Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 06.06.2005
 
 

The York Regiment
 
New Brunswick, Canada 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons
  Badges and Uniforms

  Colonel-in-Chief
  Honorary Colonels
 Traditions
 Alliances
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time Reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency
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  Titles and Lineage
1869.09.10 York Provisional Battalion
four companies raised in York County, NB
 
  • No. 1 Company at Fredericton; disbanded 18 Dec. 1874
  • No. 2 Company at St.Mary's
  • No. 3 Company at McKeen's Corner
  • No. 4 Company at Stanley
  • No. 5 Company at Fredericton, raised 12 Nov. 1869
  • No. 6 Company at Blissville, raised 12 Nov. 1869
1869.11.12 71st York Volunteer Battalion
1869.12.17 HQ moved to Fredericton
1882.03.03 companies reorganised:
 
  • No. 1 Company at St.Mary's, redesignation of No. 2 Coy; moved 1 Mar. 1905 to Marysville
  • No. 2 Company at McKeen's Corner, redesignation of No. 3 Coy; moved 25 May 1895 to Burts Corners
  • No. 3 Company at Stanley, redesignation of No. 4 Coy
  • No. 4 Company at Fredericton, redesignation of No. 5 Coy
  • No. 5 Company at Blissville, redesignation of No. 6 Coy; moved 1 Sep. 1898 to Fredericton Junction; moved 1 Sep. 1910 to Fredericton
  • No. 6 Company at St. Stephen's, raised 3 Mar. 1882
  • No. 7 Company at Deer Island, raised 1882; moved 24 Nov. 1882 to Fredericton
  • No. 8 Company at St. George, fromed 17 Oct. 1884 by conversion of No. 9 Garrison Bty NB Bde, GA; disbanded 13 Mar. 1888
1900.05.08 71st York Regiment
1920.02.15 The York Regiment
1920.06.01 reorganised to perpetuate CEF:
 
  • 1st Battalion, perpetuating 12th Battalion CEF
  • 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 140th Battalion CEF
1936.12.15 amalgamated with The Carleton Light Infantry, to form The Carleton and York Regiment
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900

The Great War:

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
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  Honorary Colonels
     
  Traditions
 
Motto: Fidelis patrice (adopted 1887)
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  Alliances Introduction to Alliances

The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own)

-1936
  Bibliography How To Find Books
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