THREE new officers have joined the region's regiment after completing their training at Sandhurst.

The three, all from North Yorkshire, will join the 1st battalion of the Green Howards once they complete their infantry platoon commanders course in Wales and Kenya.

The men also have visited the regimental museum in Richmond.

James Ashworth, 24, from 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 was being promoted to lieutenant immediately.

At Sandhurst, he served as a junior under officer and trained a group for an international competition at West Point Military Academy, in the US, where the Sandhurst team was placed first.

Second Lieutenant Andrew Breach, 23, was born in Richmond and studied for a degree in accountancy at Reading University.

He spent six months serving as a private with the Royal Anglian Regiment in Afghanistan, and was awarded the Afghan Medal.

His sports include rugby, football and cross-country running.

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

While at Sandhurst, he took part in an exchange to France to experience military training there.