Hull Rifles

Hull Rifles 1st Volunteer Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment 4th Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment
Cap badge of the East Yorkshire Regiment, granted to the battalion in 1885
Active	1859–1960
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Territorial Force
Type	Infantry
Size	Battalion
Part of	50th (Northumbrian) Division
Garrison/HQ	Londesborough Barracks, Hull
Engagements	Second Boer War First World War: Second Battle of Ypres Battle of the Somme Battle of Arras Battle of Passchendaele German spring offensive Second World War Battle of France Battle of Gazala First Battle of Alamein Tunisian Campaign Allied invasion of Sicily Operation Overlord Normandy Campaign North West Europe
Commanders
Notable commanders	Sir Cyril Deverell

The Hull Rifles, later the 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force first raised in Kingston upon Hull in 1859. During the First World War it served on the Western front, seeing a great deal of action at Ypres, the Somme (where it was one of the first infantry units ever to cooperate with tanks), Arras, and in the German spring offensive, when it was virtually destroyed. Its 2nd Line battalion garrisoned Bermuda for much of the war. During the Second World War the 4th Battalion was captured at the Battle of Gazala, but its wartime duplicate unit fought on through the Western Desert, Tunisia and Sicily, and then landed in Normandy on D Day. The battalion served in the postwar Territorial Army until 1960, and its successors in today's Army Reserve continue in Hull.