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The
East Lancashire Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army
in the Great War). |
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The
East Lancashire Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental
Warpath 1914-1918) |
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RHQ and
Depot: |
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RHQ:  |
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30th Regimental
District at Burnley [1881-1905] |
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D Group
at Carlisle [1946-48] |
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Lancastrian
Brigade at Preston [1948-1958] |
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Regulars:
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1st
Battalion [1881-1958] |
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2nd
Battalion [1881-1948] |
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Militia
and Special Reserve: |
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3rd
Battalion (5th Royal Lancashire Regiment of Militia) [1881-1953]
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4th Battalion [planned 1881 but not formed] |
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Territorials
and Volunteers: |
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1st
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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2nd
Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] |
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4th
Battalion [1908-1921, 1939-1958] |
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4th/5th
Battalion [1921-1939] |
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5th
Battalion [1908-1921] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/4th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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2/5th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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5th
Battalion [1939-1947] |
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6th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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6th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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7th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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7th Battalion [1940-1941] |
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8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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8th Battalion [1940-1941] |
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9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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10th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington)
[1914-1919] |
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12th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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13th (Service) Battalion [1918-1919]
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30th Battalion [1941-1943] |
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[combined
battle honours of 30th Regiment
and 59th Regiment, plus:]
Gibraltar
1704-051, Belleisle2,
Chitral, South
Africa 1900-02
The Great War [17 battalions]:
Le
Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Armentières
1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 '17 '18, St. Julien, Frezenberg,
Bellewaarde, Aubers, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin,
Pozières, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights,
Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917,
Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Oppy, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Langemarck
1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde,
Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières,
Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel,
Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai 1918, Selle, Valenciennes,
Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Kosturino,
Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Helles,
Krithia, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Rumani,
Egypt 1915-17, Tigris
1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-17
The Second World War: Defence
of Escaut, Dunkirk 1940, Caen,
Falaise, Nederrijn, Lower Maas, Ourthe, Rhineland,
Reichswald, Weeze, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Aller, North-West
Europe 1940 '44-45,
Madagascar,
North Arakan, Pinwe,
Burma 1944-45
1. Granted
1909 for services of 30th Regiment.
2. Granted 1951 for services of
30th Regiment.
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
1881-1953:
scarlet; facings: white
1953-1958: blue; facings: white; piping: white
headdress:
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1881 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Sir George Vaughan Maxwell, KCB |
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1881 |
[2nd Bn:] Gen. Henry Eyre |
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1889.04.11 |
Gen. Sir Edmund Augustus Whitmore, KCB |
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1890.12.15 |
Lt-Gen. Thomas Henry Pakenham, CB |
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1913.02.21 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake, KCB,
KCMG |
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1920.05.20 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Cecil Lothian Nicholson,
KCB, CMG |
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1932.12.24 |
F.M.
Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO [also Col. Cmdt.
Para Rgt; CIGS] |
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1944.11.06 |
Maj-Gen. Hugh Tennent MacMullen, CB, CBE,
MC |
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1946.01.01 |
Brig. James Willie Pendlebury, DSO, MC |
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1956.01.01 |
Maj-Gen. William Harold Lambert, CB, CBE
[continued 1958 in Lancs
Rgt] |
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Motto: |
Spectemur agendo |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
Somme
(18 June) |
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Freedoms: |
Blackburn (17
Apr. 1948), Burnley (6 June 1953) |
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Marches: |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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59th Battalion (The Hume Regiment) |
1926-1951,
1956-1958 |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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1st Bn: The XXX. |
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2nd Bn: The lilywhite gazette. |
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East Lancashire regimental journal.
Vol. 1. no. 1 (Feb. 1931)-v. 8. no. 5 (Sep. 1939 ; new series, Vol.
1. no. 1 (Jan. 1955)-v. 4. no. 16 (Dec. 1958). Aldershot, 1931-1939;
Preston, 1955-1958. |
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Full Histories:
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James. F.M. Annals of the "Five
and Nine" : being the history of H.M. 59th Regiment (2nd Nottinghamshire),
now the Second Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. Poona
: S. Shalom & Bros., 1906. |
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Lewis, A. S. (Adrian Steven). The
Lilywhite 59th : the 2nd Nottinghamshire & 2nd Battalion East Lancashire
Regiment. Blackburn : Published for the East Lancashire
Regiment Museum by Blackburn Recreation Services Dept., 1985. |
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Downham, John. Red roses on the
Veldt : Lancashire Regiments in the Boer War, 1899-1902.
Lancaster : Carnegie Pub., 2000. ISBN: 1859360750 |
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Short Histories:
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History of the East Lancashire Regiment,
XXX and LIX, 1702-1902. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1919. |
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A pictorial souvenir and history
of the first battalion the East Lancashire Regiment, (late 30th
Foot), Poona, India, 1929 : Lieut.-Colonel W.J. Cranston, D.S.O.,
commanding. Blackburn : T.H.C.L., 2003. ISBN: 0948494913
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Wood, F.W. The recruits' history of
the regiment : the East Lancashire Regiment. Preston : [s.n.],
1927. |
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1st Battalion The East Lancashire
Regiment, Saar plebiscite, 1935. Aldershot : Gale &
Polden, 1935. |
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Wood, F.W.; Green, R.E.D. The East
Lancashire Regiment, a short history of the regiment, with additions
for the Great War. Preston : T. Snape & Co., 1938. |
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A short history of the East Lancashire
Regiment. Preston : T. Snape & Co., 1952. |
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First World War:
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Nicholson, Cecil Lothian, Sir. History
of the East Lancashire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918.
Liverpool : Littlebury Bros., 1936. |
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Edward Campbell. Spectamur agendo:
1st Battalion, the East Lancashire Regiment, August and September,
1914. [Cambridge, Eng.] Privately printed (Heffer &
Sons), 1926. |
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Turner, William. Accrington Pals trail.
Barnsley : Cooper, 1998. (Battleground Europe) ISBN: 0850526361
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Turner, William. The "Accrington
Pals" : the 11th (Service) Battalion, (Accrington), East Lancashire
Regiment : a pictorial history. [Preston] : Lancashire Library,
1986. ISBN: 0902228587 (pbk) |
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Turner, William. Pals : the 11th (Service)
Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment. Barnsley
: Wharnecliffe Pub., 1991. ISBN: 0950789240 |
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Turner, William. The Accrington
Pals : the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire
Regiment : a pictorial history. 2nd ed. Preston : Lancashire
County Books, 1992. ISBN: 1871236169 (pbk) |
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Turner, William. Pals : the 11th (Service)
Battalion (Accrington), East Lancashire Regiment. [new ed.]
Barnsley : Pen & Sword, 1998. ISBN: 0850523605 |
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Garwood, John M. Chorley pals.
[s.l. : s.n.] [Y Company, 11th Battalion] |
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Second World War:
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Burden, G.W.P.N. (ed.) History of
the East Lancashire Regiment in the War, 1939-1945. Manchester
: H. Rawson, 1953. |
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Pendlebury, J.W. 1st Battalion The
East Lancashire Regiment, France 1940. 2nd ed. Ringwood
: Brown & So, 1946. |
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Special Topics: |
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Walsh, R. R. (R. Raymond) ; Walsh Jean M.
East Lancashire Regiment: list of cemeteries and the number
of East Lancashire soldiers at rest in each of them : Part one, 1914
to 1918 ; Part two, 1939 to 1945. Blackburn : T.H.C.L. Books,
1999. ISBN: 0948494832 |
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Walsh, R. R. (R. Raymond) ; Walsh, Jean
M. Roll of honour the Great War 1914-1918 : the East Lancashire
Regiment (covers the period 1914 to 1921). Blackburn : T.H.C.L.
Books, 1999. ISBN: 094849476X |
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Walsh, R. R. (R. Raymond) ; Walsh, Jean
M. The inauguration and dedication of the memorial to all members
of The East Lancashire Regiment Who Fell on 12th August 1944, in the
Attack on the village of Bois Halbout, and to all others who fell
elsewhere, for 1939 to 1945 in North-West Europe. Blackburn
: THCL, 1998. 0948494743 |
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Walsh, R. R. (R. Raymond). Roll of
honour 1939-1945 : East Lancashire Regiment. Blackburn, T.H.C.L.
Books, 1998. 0948494727 |
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by A. Melville-Brown 
