Welcoming home the Yorkshire Regiment
Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 by Martin Wingfield in Constituency News
ANDREW Brons MEP attended the official homecoming parade of the Yorkshire Regiment in Leeds City Centre. He was there as the guest of Leeds councillor Chris Beverley.
Andrew and Chris were on the Civic Hall steps with the Senior Officer as the Yorkshire Regiment marched onto Millennium Square and were later invited to join the Lord Mayor and the Senior Officer in the West Room for light refreshments.
After the parade they enjoyed a buffet lunch in the Banquet Hall.
The Yorkshire Regiment was formed on 6th June 2006 to represent the historic County of Yorkshire which has 300 years of warrior tradition forged by common values, history and home.
The ethos of the Yorkshire Regiment reflects a sense of belonging to Yorkshire and the common Yorkshire values of honesty, fairness, true grit and pride.
The Regiment is a strong, inclusive and meritocratic family that draws from the best military traditions of the forebear regiments and its Cap Badge represents this. It is a combination of parts of the cap badges of those regiments.
The white rose of York from The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire, the Lion Rampant from The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment
and the Brunswick green backing from The Green Howards.
Its soldiers have won 38 Victoria Crosses and 280 Battle Honours, the first in Namur in 1695, and the most recent in Iraq in 2003.
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