List of York and Lancaster Regiment battalions
List of Battalions of the York and Lancaster Regiment :
List of Battalions
Regulars
- 1st Battalion (Regular) - World War I - 83rd Brigade, 28th Division. World War II - 15th Brigade, 5th Infantry Division
- 2nd Battalion (Regular) - World War I - 16th Brigade, 6th Division. World War II - 14th Brigade, 6th Infantry Division (later 70th Infantry Division)
Militia
- 3rd (Militia) Battalion (3rd West York Regiment of Militia)
Territorials and Volunteers
- 1st (Hallamshire) Battalion (1881–1908)
- 2nd Volunteer Battalion (1881–1908)
- 4th (Hallamshire) Battalion (1908–1924)
- 5th Battalion (1881–1936)
- The Hallamshire Battalion (1924–1967)
- Yorkshire Volunteers (1967–1993)
- The Hallamshire (T) Battalion (1967–1971)
- 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion - 148th (3rd West Riding) Brigade, 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
- 1/5th Battalion - 148th (3rd West Riding) Brigade, 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
Hostilities only units
- 2/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion (1914–19) – 2nd Line Territorial Army (TA) – 187th Brigade, 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division
- 3/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion (1915–19) – 3rd Line TA – Home Service
- 2/5th Battalion (1914–18) – 2nd Line TA – 187th Brigade, 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division
- 3/5th Battalion (1915–16) – 3rd Line TA – Home Service
- 5th Battalion (1939–45) – 1st Line TA – converted to 67th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
- 6th (Service) Battalion (1914–19) – 32nd Brigade, 11th (Northern) Division
- 6th Battalion (1939–47) – 2nd Line TA – 138th Infantry Brigade, 46th Division
- 7th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers) (1914–19) – 50th Brigade, 17th (Northern) Division
- 7th Battalion (Pioneers) (1940–46) – served in India throughout the war
- 8th (Service) Battalion (1914–19) – 70th Infantry Brigade, 23rd Division
- 8th Battalion (Pioneers) (1940–45) – Indian 25th Division
- 9th (Service) Battalion (1914–19) – 70th Brigade, 23rd Division
- 9th Battalion (1940–46) – Indian 25th Division
- 10th (Service) Battalion (1914–18) – 63rd Infantry Brigade, 21st Division (attached to 37th Division from 1916)
- 10th Battalion (1940–41) – converted to 150th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, 254th Indian Tank Brigade
- 11th Reserve Battalion (1914–16) – 90th Brigade, 33rd Division – Home Service, disbanded 1916
- 11th Battalion (1940–44)
- 12th (Sheffield) (Service) Battalion (1914–18) The Sheffield City Battalion – 94th Brigade, 31st Division
- 13th (1st Barnsley) (Service) Battalion (1914–15) The Barnsley Pals – 94th Brigade, 31st Division (attached 93rd Brigade from Feb. 1918)
- 14th (2nd Barnsley) (Service) Battalion (1914–18) The Barnsley Pals – 94th Brigade, 31st Division
- 15th Reserve Battalion (1915–1916) – Home Service
- 16th (Transport Workers) Battalion (1916–19) – Home Service
- 17th Labour Battalion (1916–17) – Home Service
- 18th Battalion (1918) – 41st Brigade, 14th (Light) Division (from June 1918)
- 50th (Holding) Battalion (1940)
- 53rd (Service) Battalion (1919)
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