Cap Badge - The York and Lancaster Regiment The white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster, combined into the Tudor rose on its badge. The York and Lancaster Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1968. The regiment saw service in many small conflicts and both World War I and World War II until 1968 when the regiment chose to be disbanded rather than amalgamated with another regiment, one of only two infantry regiments to do so with the other being the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). This regiment was formed in 1881 by merging the 65th (2nd Yorkshire and North Riding) and 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiments of Foot. Unusually, it took the regimental title of the junior regiment. Each regiment became a single battalion in the new unit. Its motto was 'Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense' (Shame On Him Who Thinks This Evil).