page_title: Duke of Wellington's Regiment
section_title: Alliances
hierarchical_section_title: Duke of Wellington's Regiment / Alliances
caption_attribution_description: Wooden Plaque, showing regimental affiliation between The Duke ow Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) (UK) and Les Voltigeurs de Québec (Canada)
context_page_description: The Duke of Wellington's Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, forming part of the King's Division.
  In 1702 Colonel George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, was authorised to raise a new regiment, which he did in and around the city of Gloucester. As was the custom in those days the regiment was named Huntingdon's Regiment after its Colonel. As Colonel succeeded Colonel the name changed, but in 1751 regiments were given numbers, and the regiment was from that time officially known as the 33rd Regiment of Foot. In 1782 the regiment's title was changed to the 33rd Regiment, thus formalising an association with the West Riding of Yorkshire which, even then, had been long established. The first Duke of Wellington died in 1852 and in the following year Queen Victoria, in recognition of the regiment's long ties to him, ordered that the regiment's title be changed to the 33rd Regiment. In 1881, following the Childers Reforms, the 33rd was linked with the 76th Regiment of Foot, who shared their depot in Halifax.
context_section_description: les Voltigeurs de Québec, Canada
  10th Battalion, The Baloch Regiment, Pakistan
  HMS Iron Duke, Royal Navy
caption: DWR & les Voltigeurs de Québec Regimental affiliation plague
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