A TRIO of new faces has joined the region's regiment after completing their training at Sandhurst.

They will join The 1st Battalion the Green Howards once they complete their infantry platoon commanders course in Wales and Kenya.

They recently visited the regimental museum in Richmond.

James Ashworth, 24, of Farndale West, near Kirkbymoorside, was expecting to become a Second Lieutenant - only to discover that, having spent a gap year serving with the regiment, he received promotion to Lieutenant.

At the Royal Military Academy he served as a Junior Under Officer and trained a group for an international competition at West Point Military Academy in the US.

Second Lieutenant Andrew Breach, 23, of Richmond, took a degree in accountancy at Reading University. He spent six months serving as a private soldier with the Royal Anglian Regiment in Afghanistan, and was awarded the Afghan Medal.

Second Lieutenant Nick Mantell, 24, of Catterick, spent a year working in France before going to Leeds University on an Army scholarship, where he studied history and politics.