The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was a

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of the

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raised on 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel,

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. In 1751, it was numbered like most other Army regiments and named the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot. After the Childers Reforms of 1881, it became the Lincolnshire Regiment after the county where it had been recruiting since 1781. After the

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, it became the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, before being amalgamated in 1960 with the

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to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) which was later amalgamated with the 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) and the

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to form the

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. 'A' Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglians continues the traditions of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

History

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Early wars

The regiment was raised on 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel,

. Prior to the

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, it formed the garrison of

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and defected to William III shortly after his landing at

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on 5 November 1688. After the outbreak of the Nine Years War in 1689, the regiment remained in Plymouth until the end of 1691, when it embarked for

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and saw action at the

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in August 1692, suffering 50 dead or wounded. During the 1693 campaign, it was detached from the main Allied force prior to the

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in July, then served at the Siege of Namur in July 1695 before returning to England in 1696. It escaped disbandment in 1698 by being posted to

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. During the 1701 to 1714

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, the regiment fought at

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in August 1704, Ramillies in May 1706, and Malplaquet in September 1709. Following the 1751 reforms, when all British regiments were identified by numbers rather than their Colonel's name, it became the 10th Regiment of Foot. It then took part in the 1759-60 action to repel Thurot at Carrickfergus during the

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.Norman Vance, ‘Vallancey, Charles (c.1726–1812)’,

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, September 2004. The regiment would next see action in the

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, fighting at the

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in April 1775, the

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in June 1775, the

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in winter 1776, the

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in October 1777, the

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in June 1778 and the

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in August 1778. In 1778, the 10th returned home to England after 19 years service overseas. In 1782, the regiment was linked to the county of

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for recruiting. Soldier of 10th regiment 1742

Napoleonic Wars

The regiment embarked for

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in 1800 for service in the

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and took part in the Battle of Alexandria in March 1801. The 2nd battalion then took part in the disastrous

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in autumn 1809. Meanwhile, the 1st battalion embarked for

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in 1812 for service in the

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and took part in the Battle of Castalla in April 1813 and the Siege of Tarragona in June 1813. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Booth, KH, JP, a

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and the last of his ancient family to be seated at Killingholme, served as

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from 1830 until his death in 1841.

The Victorian era

In 1842, the 10th Foot was sent to India and was involved in the bloody

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in February 1846 during the

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. The 10th would also see action at the Relief of Multan in January 1849 and the

Battle of Gujrat The Battle of Gujrat was a decisive battle in the Second Anglo-Sikh War, fought on 21 February 1849, between the forces of the East India Company, and a Sikh army in rebellion against the company's control of the Sikh Empire, represented by ...

in February 1849 during the

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. In 1857, at the outbreak of the

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, the Regiment was stationed at

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. The 1st Battalion, 10th Foot served in

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from 1868 through 1871. The battalion was charged with protecting the small foreign community in

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. The leader of the battalion's military band,

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, is honoured in Japan as "the first bandmaster in Japan" and as "the father of band music in Japan". He is also credited for initiating the slow process in which ''

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'' came to be accepted as the

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of Japan. The regiment was not fundamentally affected by the

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of the 1870s, which gave it a depot at the " old barracks" in

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from 1873. The regiment moved to the " new barracks" further north on Burton Road in 1880. Nor was the regiment affected by the

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of 1881 – as it already possessed two battalions, there was no need for it to amalgamate with another regiment. Under the reforms, the regiment became The Lincolnshire Regiment on 1 July 1881. Lincolnshire Regiment Cap Badge

The Royal North Lincolnshire and Royal South Lincolnshire Militia regiments became the 3rd and 4th Battalions, and the 1st and 2nd Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteer Corps became the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions (a 3rd Volunteer Battalion was added in 1900).Westlake, pp. 156–9. The 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment was posted at Malta from 1895, and took part in the

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in September 1898 during the

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. It was then stationed in

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, where it was in

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until late 1902 when it transferred to

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. The 2nd Battalion embarked for South Africa in January 1900 and saw action during the

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The 3rd (

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) battalion, formed from the Royal North Lincoln Militia in 1881, was a reserve battalion. It was embodied in May 1900, disembodied in July the following year, and later re-embodied for service in South Africa during the Second Boer War. Almost 540 officers and men returned to Southampton on the SS ''Cestrian'' in early October 1902, following the end of the war, when the battalion was disembodied at Lincoln. In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised under the

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, with the former becoming the

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(TF) and the latter the

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; the regiment now had one Reserve and two Territorial battalions. These were the 3rd Battalion (Special Reserve) at Lincoln, with the 4th Battalion (TF) at

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in Lincoln and the

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(TF) at Doughty Road in

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(since demolished).

First World War

The regiment started the

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with two regular battalions, one militia battalion and two territorial battalions. The 1st Lincolns were stationed in Portsmouth, the 2nd Lincolns on

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, and the 3rd in Lincoln. The 4th and 5th Battalions were the

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battalions, based throughout Lincolnshire.

Regular Army

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Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps soldiers with Lincolnshire Regiment 1918

The 1st Battalion landed at

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as part of the 9th Brigade in the 3rd Division for service on the

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in August 1914. Notable engagements included the

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in autumn 1914 and the

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in May 1915, during which the commanding officer of the battalion, Major H E R Boxer, was killed. The Commanding Officer of 2nd Lincolns, Lieutenant-Colonel George Bunbury McAndrew, found himself acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the

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of Bermuda in the absence of the Governor and General Officer Commanding, Lieutenant-General Sir George Bullock, and oversaw that colony's placement onto a war footing. The battalion returned to England on 3 October 1914, and was sent to the Western Front as part of the 25th Brigade in the 8th Division soon after, arriving in France on 5 November 1914. McAndrew was killed on 10 March 1915. Major engagements included the Battle of Aubers Ridge in May 1915 where the battalion incurred heavy losses and the

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in Autumn 1916 where the second-in-command of the battalion, Major F W Greatwood, was injured. A contingent from the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps composed of Captain Richard Tucker and 88 other ranks was detached in December 1914 to train for the Western Front. It was hoped this could join 2nd Lincolns, but 1 Lincolns' need for reinforcement was greater and it was attached to that battalion organised as two extra platoons of one of the battalion's companies (the 2nd Lincolns had recruited three Bermudians before it left the colony, including two Constables from the Bermuda Police, Corporal G. C. Wailes (who had previously served in the

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), Lance-Corporal Louis William Morris, and Private Farrier. Wailes was repeatedly wounded and returned to Bermuda an invalid in April 1915. Morris was killed in action on 7 December 1914. Although commanders at the Regimental Depot had wanted to break the contingent apart, re-enlist its members as Lincolns, and distribute them throughout the Regiment as replacements, a letter from the War Office ensured that the BVRC contingent remained together as a unit, under its own badge. The contingent arrived in France with 1 Lincolns on 23 June 1915, the first colonial volunteer unit to reach the Western Front. The Contingent was withered away by casualties over the following year. 50% of its remaining strength was lost at

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on 25 September 1916. The dozen survivors were merged with a newly arrived Second BVRC Contingent, of one officer and 36 other ranks, who had trained in Bermuda as

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ners. Stripped of their Vickers machine guns (which had been collected, for the new

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), the merged contingents were retrained as Lewis light machinegunners, and provided 12 gun teams to 1 Lincolns headquarters. By the end of the war, the two contingents had lost over 75% of their combined strength. Forty had died on active service, one received the O.B.E, and six the Military Medal. Sixteen enlisted men from the two contingents were commissioned, including the Sergeant Major of the First Contingent, Colour-Sergeant R.C. Earl, who would become Commanding Officer of the BVRC after the War (some of those commissioned moved to other units in the process, including

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Arthur Rowe Spurling and Henry J. Watlington, who both went to the

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). At the end of the war in 1918, the 1st Lincolns, under Frederick Spring, and the 3rd Lincolns were sent to

to deal with the troubles in the unrecognised Irish Republic.

Territorial Force

The 1/4th Battalion and 1/5th Battalion landed as landed at Le Havre as part of the 138th Brigade in the

46th (North Midland) Division The 46th (North Midland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of the Territorial Force, that saw service in the First World War. At the outbreak of the war, the 46th Division was commanded by Major-General Hon. E.J. Mont ...

in March 1915 for service on the Western Front. The 2/4th Battalion and 2/5th Battalion moved to Ireland as part of the 177th Brigade in the

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and took part in the response to the

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before landing in France in February 1917 for service on the Western Front.

New Armies

The 6th (Service) Battalion landed at

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as part of the 33rd Brigade in the

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in August 1915 and, having been evacuated at the end of the year, moved to Egypt in January 1916 and then to France in July 1916 for service on the Western Front. The 7th (Service) Battalion landed at

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as part of the 51st Brigade in the

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in July 1915 also for service on the Western Front. The 8th (Service) Battalion landed at Boulogne as part of the 63rd Brigade in the 21st Division in September 1915 also for service on the Western Front. The 10th (Service) Battalion (Grimsby, often known as the

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, landed in France as part of the 101st Brigade in the 34th Division in January 1916 also for service on the Western Front and saw action at the

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in July 1916 and the

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in Autumn 1917.

Second World War

22 June 1940 Prospect Camp GOC inspection of BVRC Contingent to Lincolnshire Regiment

The

was declared on Sunday, 3 September 1939 and the two Territorial Army battalions, the 4th and the 6th (a duplicate of the 4th), were called-up immediately. The 2nd Battalion embarked for France with the 9th Infantry Brigade attached to the 3rd Infantry Division commanded by

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in October 1939. They were followed by the 6th Battalion, part of 138th Brigade with the 46th Infantry Division, in April 1940; both served with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and managed to return from

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after the battles of

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and

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. After returning to England, both battalions spent years in the United Kingdom on home defence anticipating a possible German invasion of the United Kingdom. The 2nd Battalion, remaining with the same brigade and division throughout the war, then spent the next four years training in various parts of the United Kingdom before taking part in the D-Day landings in June 1944. The battalion, commanded by

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was then engaged throughout the

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, taking part in

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, Operation Goodwood, and throughout the rest of the Northwest Europe Campaign until

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in May 1945. The 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment was stationed in

and saw no active service until 1942. They remained in India and the

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throughout the war and were assigned to the

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, part of

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, in 1942. fighting the

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in the Burma Campaign and during the

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, the first major victory against the Japanese in the campaign, in early 1944 where

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was posthumously awarded the

, the only one to be awarded to the Lincolnshire Regiment during the Second World War. The British Army in Norway April - June 1940 N82

The Territorials of the 4th Battalion, part of 146th Brigade attached to

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, were sent to

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and were among the first British soldiers to come into contact against an advancing enemy in the field in the Second World War. Ill-equipped and without air support, they soon had to be evacuated. Within a few weeks, they were sent to garrison neutral Iceland. They trained as Alpine troops during the two years they were there. After returning to the United Kingdom in 1942, when the division gained the 70th Brigade, they were earmarked to form part of the

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for the coming invasion of France and started training in preparation. After two years spent on home defence, the 6th Battalion left the United Kingdom, still as part of the 138th (Lincoln and Leicester) Brigade in the 46th Infantry Division, in January 1943 to participate in the final stages of the

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. In September 1943, the battalion, commanded by

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, took part in the landings at Salerno in Italy as part of Mark Clark's

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, suffering heavy losses and later captured

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, crossed the

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and fought on the

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and in the

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in January 1944. The battalion returned to

to refit in March 1944, by which time it had suffered heavy casualties and lost 518 killed, wounded or missing. It returned to the Italian Front in July 1944 and, after more hard fighting throughout the summer during the Battles for the Gothic Line, it sailed for Greece in December to help the civil authorities to keep order during the

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. In April 1945, the 6th Lincolns returned to Italy for the final offensive but did not participate in any fighting and then moved into Austria for occupation duties. The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H11931

The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H11931

The Lincolnshire Regiment also raised two other battalions for hostilities-only, the 7th and 8th, created in June and July 1940 respectively. However, both were converted into other arms of service, the 7th becoming

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on 1 December 1941 and the 8th becoming the 101st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery. The

Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) was created in 1894 as a reserve for the Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison. Renamed the ''Bermuda Rifles'' in 1951, it was amalgamated into the Bermuda Regiment in 1965. Formation A ...

again provided two drafts; one in June 1940, and a full company in 1944. Four Bermudians who served with the Lincolns during the war (three from the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps) reached the rank of Major with the regiment: Major General Glyn Gilbert (later of the Parachute Regiment), Lieutenant Colonel John Brownlow Tucker (the first Commanding Officer of the

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, amalgamated from the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps and the

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in 1965), Major Anthony Smith (killed-in-action at Venrai, in 1944, and subject of an award-winning film, ''In The Hour of Victory''), and Major Patrick Purcell, responsible for administering German newspapers in the British area of occupation. Among other members of the 1940 contingent from the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps was Bernard John Abbott, a school teacher and pre-war Bermuda Cadet Corps officer re-commissioned into the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps’ Emergency Reserve of officers with the rank of Second-Lieutenant (Acting Major) in accordance with a War Office cable of the 4 May 1939, who joined 50th Holding Battalion, in Norfolk, which became 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. He ended the war as a staff officer in the Far East, and the London Gazette of 25 December 1945 recorded ''“War Subs. Maj. H. J. ABBOTT .(108051) relinquishes his commn., 26th Dec. 1945, and is granted the hon. rank of Lt.-Col.”''.

Post-war years

Bermuda Local Forces Orders No 9 for October, 1954

After the war, the 4th and 6th battalions were placed in 'suspended animation' in 1946 but were both reformed on 1 January 1947. However, on 1 July 1950, the 6th was merged with the 4th to create the 4th/6th Battalion. On 28 October 1948, the 2nd Battalion was amalgamated with the 1st Battalion. The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and its successors maintained its relationship with the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (renamed the ''Bermuda Rifles'' in 1949) after the Second World War. When the Bermuda Militia Artillery (a reserve sub-unit of the

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) had been re-tasked as a company of infantry on the closure of

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in 1953, it had been grouped with the Bermuda Rifles under a battalion-level headquarters company titled ''Headquarters Bermuda Local Forces'' (not to be confused with the ''Command Headquarters'' of the Bermuda Garrison, to which it was subsidiary, with

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Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hood serving as Commander-in-Chief and Brigadier J.C. Smith, Royal Artillery, as Officer Commanding Troops) with a lieutenant-colonel in command. From this point, the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment had also provided an officer as Adjutant to the Bermuda Local Forces and Secretary to the Local Forces Board, beginning with Captain (later Major) Darby Robert Follett Houlton-Hart (according to the 13 January, 1954, issue of ''The Bermuda Recorder'' newspaper, the reorganisation of the two units under a new common headquarters had begun ''operating unofficially since the arrival in the colony on November 17, of the command's new Adjutant, Captain D. R. F. Houlton-Hart, M.C., of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment. The make-up of the new command is as follows:- Col. Astwood, Commanding Officer; Captain D. R. F. Houlton-Hart, Adjutant, one Regimental Sergeant-Major, one Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, a Sergeant instructor for each unit and two medical officers''. The same article also recorded that the ''new system'' had been ''tried during the Big Three Conference last month when all troops were under the command of Lt.-Col. J. R. Johnson of the Royal Welch Fusiliers'') posted to Bermuda from 1953 to 1957. In addition to serving as the Bermuda Command Adjutant and the Bermuda Local Forces Adjutant, Captain Houlton-Hart was also the adjutant of the Bermuda Cadet Corps. In 1960, the regiment amalgamated with the

in September 1964 to form the

. The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment's paternal relationship to the Bermuda Rifles and the Bermuda Local Forces was continued by the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) and the Royal Anglian Regiment until the three Bermudian company-sized units amalgamated in 1965 to form the Bermuda Regiment (from 2015 the Royal Bermuda Regiment), with the relationship maintained since then between the Royal Anglian Regiment and the Royal Bermuda Regiment. Currently, 674 Squadron Army Air Corps uses the sphinx as an emblem within its crest in honour of its local connections with the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

Regimental museum

The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and

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collections are displayed in Lincoln's Museum of Lincolnshire Life. Artefacts concerning the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps contingents that served with the Lincolnshires during the two world wars are displayed in the Bermuda Maritime Museum (part of the

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) in the

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Battle honours

The regiment's battle honours are as follows: *''Earlier Wars'' ** Steenkirk, 8 July 1692; War of the Spanish Succession, 1702–1713; Blenheim, 13 August 1704; Ramillies, 23 May 1706; Oudenarde, 11 July 1708; Malplaquet, 11 September 1709; Bouchain, 13 September 1711; Peninsula, 1812–14; Sobraon, 10 February 1846; Mooltan, 1848; Goojuarat, 21 February 1849; Punjab, 1848-49; Lucknow 1858; Atbara, 1898; Khartoum, 1898; Paardeberg, February 1900; South Africa 1900–02 *''Great War:'' **'' Mons, Le Cateau,

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, Marne 1914,

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Messines 1914 The Battle of Messines was fought in October 1914 between the armies of the German Empire, German empire and British Empire, British empire and French Third Republic, France as part of the Race to the Sea, between the river Douve and the Comines ...

, 1917, 1918, Armentières 1914,

Ypres 1914 Ypres ( , ; nl, Ieper ; vls, Yper; german: Ypern ) is a Belgian city and municipality in the province of West Flanders. Though the Dutch name is the official one, the city's French name is most commonly used in English. The municipality c ...

, '15, '17, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Loos,

Somme 1916 __NOTOC__ Somme or The Somme may refer to: Places *Somme (department), a department of France * Somme, Queensland, Australia * Canal de la Somme, a canal in France *Somme (river) The Somme ( , , ) is a river in Picardy, northern France. The ...

, '18,

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, '18,Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval,

Ancre 1916 The Ancre (; ) is a river of Picardy, France. Rising at Miraumont, a hamlet near the town of Albert, it flows into the Somme at Corbie. It is long. For most of its length it flows through the department of Somme. For a short stretch near Pu ...

, '18,

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, '18,

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, '18, Arleux, Pilckem,

Langemarck 1917 The Battle of Langemarck (16–18 August 1917) was the second Anglo-French general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres, during the First World War. The battle took place near Ypres in Belgian Flanders, on the Western Front against the German ...

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, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, '18, St. Quentin,

Bapaume 1918 The Second Battle of Bapaume was a battle of the First World War that took place at Bapaume in France, from 21 August 1918 to 3 September 1918. It was a continuation of the Battle of Albert and is also referred to as the second phase of that b ...

, Lys, Estaires, Bailleul, Kemmel, Amiens, Drocourt Quéant,

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, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, Sambre,

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, Suvla,

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, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916 *''Second World War:'' **Vist,

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, Dunkirk 1940,

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, Cambes, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Orne, Bourguébus Ridge, Troarn, Nederrijn,

, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, Venraij, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Hochwald, Lingen, Bremen, Arnhem 1945,

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, '44–45, Sedjenane I, Mine de Sedjenane, Argoub Selah, North Africa 1943, Salerno, Vietri Pass, Capture of Naples, Cava di Terreni, Volturno Crossing, Garigliano Crossing, Monte Tuga, Gothic Line, Monte Gridolfo, Gemmano Ridge, Lamone Crossing,

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, Donbaik, Point 201 (Arakan), North Arakan, Buthidaung, Ngakyedauk Pass, Ramree, Burma 1943–45

Victoria Crosses

Victoria Crosses awarded to men of the Regiment were: * Private Denis Dempsey,

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(12 August 1857/14 March 1858) * Lieutenant

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(16 July 1857) * Private John Kirk, Indian Mutiny (4 June 1857) * Lance-Sergeant

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(2 September 1918) * Captain Percy Hansen,

(9 August 1915) * Temp Major

(16 February 1944) * Acting Corporal Charles Richard Sharpe, First World War (9 May 1915) * Captain John Brunt, Second World War (9 December 1944)

Colonel-in-Chief

1888–1902: F.M. Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar, KP, GCB, GCVO

Colonels of the Regiment

Colonels of the regiment were: * 1685–1688: Col.

* 1688: Col. Sir Charles Carney * 1688–1693: Col.

eappointed* 1693–1703: Lt-Gen. Sir Bevil Granville * 1703–1715: Lt-Gen. William North, 6th Baron North & Grey * 1715–1737: Lt-Gen. Henry Grove * 1737–1746: Lt-Gen. Francis Columbine * 1746–1749: F.M. James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley (Lord Kilmaine) * 1749-1763: Lt-Gen. Edward Pole

10th Regiment of Foot

Portrait of Major General Edward Sandford (by Thomas Hickey)

* 1763–1781: Lt-Gen. Edward Sandford * 1781–1795: Lt-Gen. Sir Robert Murray Keith KB

10th (North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot

* 1795–1811:

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* 1811–1824: Thomas Maitland * 1824–1847: Sir

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KCB * 1847–1860:

Sir Thomas McMahon, 2nd Baronet Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas McMahon, 2nd Baronet (1779–1860) was a British Army officer. Family He was the youngest son of John MacMahon, comptroller of the Port of Limerick, and his second wife Mary Stackpoole, daughter of James Stackpoole. ...

* 1860–1863: Lt-Gen. Thomas Burke * 1863–1874: Lt-Gen. Sir Sidney John Cotton, GCB * 1874–1878: Lt-Gen. Sir John Garvock, GCB * 1878–1888: F.M. Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar, KP, GCB, GCVO

The Lincolnshire Regiment

* 1888–1890: Gen. Sir Henry Errington Longden, KCB, CSI * 1890: Gen. Reginald Yonge Shipley, CB * 1890–1903: Gen. Sir Julius Richard Glyn, KCB * 1903–1908: Lt-Gen. George Hyde Page * 1908–1914: Lt-Gen. Henry Fanshawe Davies * 1914–1938: Maj-Gen. Charles Rudyerd Simpson, CB * 1938–1948: Maj-Gen. John Hedley Thornton Priestman, CB, CBE, DSO, MC

The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

* 1948–1958: Maj-Gen. John Arnold Atkinson Griffin, DSO * 1958: Brig. Ralph Henry Lefroy Oulton, CBE

References

Sources

* * * * * * * Ray Westlake, ''Tracing the Rifle Volunteers'', Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010, .

External links

Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (10th Foot)Official Webpage of 2 Royal Anglian RegimentGrimsby Branch, The Royal Lincolnshire & Royal Anglian Regimental AssociationLincoln Branch, The Royal Lincolnshire & Royal Anglian Regimental Association
in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life
Tenth Foot. American War of Independence period re-enactors
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History

Early wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Victorian era

First World War

Regular Army

Territorial Force

New Armies

Second World War

Post-war years

Regimental museum

Battle honours

Victoria Crosses

Colonel-in-Chief

Colonels of the Regiment

10th Regiment of Foot

10th (North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot

The Lincolnshire Regiment

The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

See also

References

Sources

External links