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The 14th, or Buckinghamshire Regiment
1876 The 14th (Buckinghamshire) Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment
1881 The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Letter Crests
“BUCKINGHAMSHIRE” / “REGIMENT”
14th Buckinghamshire Regiment Officers 1855-1881
(Ryan fig.22)
“BUCKINGHAMSHIRE” / “REGt”
14th Buckinghamshire Regiment Other Rank’s Pre.1871
“WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT”
West Yorkshire Regiment Officers 1881-1901
(Ryan fig.178)
“WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT”
West Yorkshire Regiment Officers 1881-1901
Variation with tiger with upright head and raised front leg.
“WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT”
West Yorkshire Regiment Officers Volunteer Battalion 1881-1901
“4th WEST YORK” / “MILITIA”
4th West York Militia Officers, became 4th Battalion the Prince of Wales Own (West York) Regiment in 1881.
“WEST YORK” / “RIFLE VOLUNTEERS”
West York Rifle Volunteers Other Ranks
“3rd WEST YORK RIDING R V C”
3rd West York Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps Other Ranks 1860-1887, became 2nd Volunteer Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
Officers silvered 1860-1887, outer ring as per the previous O/R’s
16th and 17th Corps Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteers, Harrogate and Knaresborough, and known unofficially as the ‘Claro Rifle’.
Ground recovered centre only, an arm holding a branch, between the towers of a castle.
