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The Hallamshire Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment [UK]
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Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 19.08.2005
 
 
The Hallamshire Battalion,
The York and Lancaster Regiment
1859-1999
 
United Kingdom 
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms
  Colonels
 Traditions
 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. See the main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage English County Index
Alphabetic Index of Titles
  1859.12.22 The Hallamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
formed with HQ at Sheffield, consolidating existing companies:
 
  • 2nd Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps at Sheffield, raised 30 Sep. 1859
  • 3rd Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps at Sheffield, raised 30 Sep. 1859
  • 4th Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps at Sheffield, raised 30 Sep. 1859
  1860.02.24 2nd Yorkshire West Riding (Hallamshire) Rifle Volunteer Corps
  1881.07.01 volunteer battalion of The York and Lancaster Regiment
  1883.02 1st (Hallamshire) Volunteer Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
  1883 eighth company formed
  1901 ninth company formed
  1908.04.01 4th Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
transferred to T.F. with HQ at Sheffield
  1909.03 4th (Hallamshire) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
  1920.02.07 4th (Hallamshire) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield
  1924.01.30 The Hallamshire Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
  1939.08 formed duplicate 6th Battalion
  1947.01.01 The Hallamshire Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Sheffield, and concurrently amalgamated with 6th Battalion
  1960.02.25 absorbed R Battery, 271 (Sheffield) Field Regt RA and 865 Locating Battery RA as B Company
  1967.04.01 disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as separate units:
 
  • D Company (Hallamshire), Yorkshire Volunteers, in TAVR II, at Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield with dets at Rotherham and Barnsley
  • The Hallamshire (Territorial) Battalion, in TAVR III with HQ at Sheffield
    • A Company at Sheffield
    • B Company at Rotherham
    • C Company at Barnsley
1968.12.07 regular element of The York and Lancaster Regiment disbanded, leaving the Hallamshires as sole custodians of regimental tradition
1969.01.01 TAVR III unit reduced to cadre at Sheffield as The Hallamshire Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment, sponsored by Yorkshire Volunteers
1971.04.01 reorganised:
1975.04.01 D Coy 1st Bn consolidated at Sheffield (yielding Rotherham and Barnsley to 3rd Battalion)
1978 D Coy 1st Bn formed detachment at Middlewood Road, Sheffield
1987.01.01 D Coy 1st Bn at Sheffield redesignated as D (Hallamshire) Company 4th Battalion
1988.01.01 D Coy 3rd Bn at Barnsley redesignated as A (Hallamshire) Company 4th Battalion
1992.04.04 HQ (Hallamshire) Company, 3rd/4th Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers
reduced to single company at Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield, by amalgamation of HQ Coy and D Coy 4th Battalion and HQ Coy 3rd Battalion; (A Coy 4th Battalion amalgamated with B Coy (Sheffield Artillery Volunteers) and its Hallamshire lineage ceased)
1993.04.25 HQ (Hallamshire) Company, 3rd Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (Yorkshire Volunteers)
1999.07.01 amalgamated with B Coy (Sheffield Artillery Volunteers), to form Fontenay Company, The East and West Riding Regiment, and Hallamshire lineage ceased
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Volunteers
History:

The Hallamshire Battalion, by Campbell Ricketts (The Yorkshire Volunteers)

The Hallamshire Battalion
   
Deployment and War Service of Units:
 
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
John Crook's War [WW2]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
 
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
[no external sites have been found -- see also parent regiment]
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

South Africa 1900-02
  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges:
Uniform: 1859-1914: scarlet; facings: white
   
   
     
   
   
  Honorary Colonels Index of Royal Colonels
1899.07.26 Hon. Col. T.E. Vickers, CB, VD
1919.02.01 Lt-Col. G.E. Branson, VD, TD
1940.06.26 Col. Sir Douglas S. Branson, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, TD, ADC
Col. J. P. Hunt, TD
Honorary Colonel, The Hallamshire (T) Battalion:
1967.04.01 Col. J. P. Hunt, TD [reappointed]
  Traditions
 
Motto:
Nicknames:
Anniversaries:
Freedoms:
Marches: Endcliffe Hall, by Lawrence Willgoose
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Bibliography How To Find Books
 

Regimental Journal:
  The Hallamshire herald. No. 1 (Nov. 29, 1945)-no. 40 (Sept. 30,146). [Arnsberg, Gebrüder Lensing, etc.] 1945-1946.
 
  Full Histories:
Scott, Don. Polar Bears from Sheffield : a memorial to the officers and men of the Hallamshire Battalion, The York & Lancaster Regiment, World War Two. Sheffield : Tiger & Rose Publications, 2001.
T. W. West; and Tozer, W.  The log book of the Hallamshire Bn. York & Lancaster Regiment (27 June 1859-3 Sept. 1939).  [s.l. : s.n., 194?] 
[limited edition of 50 copies]
The Centenary of the Hallamshires, 1859-1959.  [Pontefract?] : Privately published for the Regiment, 1959.
   
First World War:
Grant, Douglas Percy. The 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battn., York and Lancaster Regiment, 1914-1919. London : For private circulation, 1926.
Grant, Douglas Percy. The 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battn., York and Lancaster Regiment, 1914-1919. [new ed.] London : Printed for private circulation by the Arden Press, 1931.