The Yorkshire Regiment

The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)
Cap Badge of the Yorkshire Regiment
Active	6 June 2006 to Present
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Line Infantry
Role	1st Battalion – Armoured Infantry 2nd Battalion – Light Infantry 4th Battalion – Army Reserve
Size	Three battalions
Part of	King's Division
Garrison/HQ	RHQ – York 1st Battalion – Battlesbury Barracks, Warminster, England 2nd Battalion – Somme Barracks, Catterick Garrison 4th Battalion – Worsley Barracks, York
Nickname(s)	Yorkshire Warriors
Motto(s)	Fortune Favours The Brave
March	Quick – Ça Ira Slow – The Duke of York
Mascot(s)	1st Battalion –Indian Elephant 2nd Battalion – Ferrets (Imphal & Quebec)
Anniversaries	Regimental Day D-Day 6 June Battalion Days Waterloo Day 18 June Imphal Day 22 June Yorkshire Day 1 August Quebec Day 13 September Alma Day 20 September
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief: Deputy Colonel-in-Chief	The Duke of York The Duke of Wellington
Colonel of the Regiment	Brigadier A Jackson
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Abbreviation	YORKS

The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) (abbreviated YORKS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, created by the amalgamation of three historic regiments in 2006. It is currently the only line infantry or rifles unit to represent a single geographical county in the new infantry structure, serving as the county regiment of Yorkshire. It lost one battalion as part of the Army 2020 defence review.

The regiment's recruitment area today covers almost all the historic county (the three ridings of the county: East Riding of Yorkshire, North Riding of Yorkshire and West Riding of Yorkshire) except for the eastern half of South Yorkshire and the southeast of West Yorkshire, which is a recruitment area for the Rifles, and the part of the West Riding that is now in Greater Manchester. The recruitment area covers all of the present-day ceremonial counties of North Yorkshire (which extends to the northern border of historic Yorkshire — the River Tees) and East Riding of Yorkshire. Recruitment however is open to those from outside the formal recruitment area, with the regiment in particular recruiting from North East England and the Commonwealth.

The regiment's antecedent units also recruited in areas that are now part of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Cumbria, Lancashire and Greater Manchester.