Green Howards who have been killed on active service since the end of the Second World War will be remembered tomorrow.

The Armistice Day Service at the Royal Armouries, in Leeds, will also mark the last time that the Green Howards remembers its dead as an independent regiment.

It will be attended by branches of the Green How-ards Association with their standards and conducted by regimental chaplain Canon Richard Cooper, chaplain to the Queen and Rector of Richmond.

Major Roger Chapman, of the Green Howards regimental HQ in Richmond, North Yorkshire, said it was a privilege to take part in the events at the Royal Armouries.

"As well as remembering the dead of two World Wars, we are honouring members of the regiment who have died in conflicts since 1945," he said.

"It will be a poignant event for us. The Green Howards will end 318 years of independent existence in June 2006, when we merge with the Prince of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and become the 2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)."

During the service, Maj Chapman will read out the names of 25 Green Howards who have died on duty in Malaya, Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands and Bosnia.

The Remembrance Day verse from Binyon's poem For the Fallen will also be read by Lieutenant Colonel Barry Smeeton, chairman of the Green Howards Association.

At 11am, the Last Post will be sounded by a bugler from the 1st Battalion The Green Howards, Lance Corporal Anthony Holmes, 27, of Middlesbrough, dressed in his scarlet uniform. After two minutes' silence he will sound reveille.