Councillors will consider giving the Yorkshire Regiment the Freedom of Calderdale.

The council is looking at how they can honour the Regiment and its members.

The borough has a long association with the Yorkshire Regiment and last year hosted a homecoming parade through the town.

Members of the Governance and Business Committee will debate the Honorary Freedom bid at next Monday’s meeting ahead of a formal decision at November’s Full Council meeting.

Council papers say: “The recent changes to the Yorkshire Regiment have provided an opportunity for the council to review its relationship with the Regiment and to consider whether now would be a good time to explore further the granting of the Freedom of the Borough of Calderdale to the Regiment in its own right.

“This would re-enforce the council’s commitment, through the Calderdale Community Covenant to support the armed forces and those who serve in them.”

The Civic Advisory Group is supporting the move, saying it would recognise the “eminent services rendered by the Regiment since its formation and to honour a distinguished unit of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces”.

It is not the first time the Regiment has been given the Freedom in the area – the former Duke of Wellington’s Regiment was granted Freedom of the Borough of Halifax in 1945 and that Freedom extended to the Regiment when it became the Yorkshire Regiment in 2006.

In July last year a shake-up of Army regiments saw the Yorkshire Regiment’s three battalions merged into two battalions.

The traditional Regiment names and colours, including the Duke of Wellingtons, were retired.

It prompted a review of Calderdale’s honouring of the military and the new proposal to reaffirm its commitment to the Regiment.

A recommendation will have to be made to an extraordinary meeting of the Council to be called by the Mayor, Clr Ann Martin, a Brighouse ward member.

A formal resolution would have to be passed with a ceremony and presentation set for 2014.

There would be a plaque at Halifax Town Hall sitting alongside plaques relating to the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment.