Valerian took the title of the Duke of Wellington after his father’s death in January 1972. He was appointed as the only non-royal Colonel-in-Chief of a regiment, The Duke of Wellington’s ...

Mr Sercu said he was drawn to the name of Fred Gallagher after browsing through the WW1 War Diaries of a battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, which in 1915 was active just east of a ...

The Duke’s many appointments included being the last Colonel-in-Chief of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment; president of Game Conservancy; a director of Massey Ferguson; a trustee of the Royal ...

presenting medals to members of the Yorkshire Regiment – whose 3rd Battalion was long known as The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment before a controversial name change a few years ago, which he ...

A special fundraising event will be held at The Arches, Dean Clough for The Duke of Wellington's Regiment memorial appeal. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get ...

One of those under threat is the 3rd Battalion (the former Duke of Wellington’s Regiment) despite its troops currently fighting in Helmand where five were killed in a single explosion in March ...

Wellington is remembered as the conqueror of Napoleon and as one of Britain's finest soldiers, despite starting life as a violin-playing Anglo-Irish aristocrat. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of ...

The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.