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The Green Howards in the Great War [Yorkshire Regiment, British Army]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Michigan https://books.google.com/books?id=C-2bHrwr6PUC During the War the Regiment’s official name was Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment. In 1921 it officially became The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), although unofficially it had been known as the Green Howards since the mid 1700s. During the First World War, the various battalions fought on the Western Front in France and Flanders, at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Macedonia (the Balkans), Italy, and North Russia with the Murmansk Expeditionary Force and the Archangel Force, and also took part in the Third Afghan War.

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