mopardave - I'm slightly confused by your post about the 2004 amalgamations. In fact that was the year when the last of the old county regiments were finally amalgamated - none was spared in spite of vociferous campaigning to keep those few, The Green Howards among them, which had escaped the previous batches of amalgamations in 1958 and 1968.
The Green Howards joined the Prince of Wales' Own Regiment of Yorkshire and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) and became the 2nd battalion of the new Yorkshire Regiment.
The temptation to name the new regiment the Prince of Wales's Green Wellingtons was resisted, for some reason!