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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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Page
created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
14.07.2006
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The
South Lancashire Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army
in the Great War) |
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The
South 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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40th Regimental
District at Warrington [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 (4th Royal Lancashire Regiment of Militia (The
Duke of Lancaster's Own)) [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 [1908-1958] |
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5th
Battalion [1908-1940] |
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Hostilities-Only
Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates):
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2/4th Battalion (Pioneers) [1914-1919]
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4th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1919]
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2/4th
Battalion [1939-1943, 1945-1947] |
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2/5th Battalion (Pioneers) [1914-1918]
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5th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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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 [1918-1919]
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7th Battalion [1940-1946] |
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8th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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8th Battalion [1940-1943] |
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9th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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9th Battalion [1940-1946] |
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10th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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11th (Service) Battalion (St. Helens
Pioneers) [1914-1919] |
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12th (Service) Battalion [1915-1916]
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13th (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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14th Battalion [1917-1919] |
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15th (Transport Workers) Battalion
[1916-1919] |
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16th (Transport Workers) Battalion
[1917-1919] |
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17th (Service) Battalion [1918-1919]
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18th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
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30th Battalion [1941-1943] |
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50th (Holding) Battalion [1940-1940]
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[combined battle
honours of 40th Regiment and 82nd
Regiment, plus:]
Louisburg1,
Martinique
17622, Havannah2,
St. Lucia 17782,
Corunna3,Relief
of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902
Great War [20 battalions]: Mons,
Le Cateau, Retreat from
Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, La Bassée 1914,
Messines 1914 '17 '18, Armentières 1914, Ypres
1914 '15 '17 '18, Nonne Bosschen, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde,
Mount Sorrel4, Somme
1916 '18, Albert
1916, Bazentin, Pozières, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette,
Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18,
Scarpe 1917 '18, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood,
Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918,
Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel,
Scherpenberg, Drocourt Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du
Nord, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18,
Doiran 1917 '18,
Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla,
Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt
1916, Tigris 1916,
Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18, Baluchistan
1918
Afghanistan 1919
Second World War: Dunkirk
1940, Normandy Landing,
Odon, Bourguébus Ridge, Troarn, Falaise, Venraij,
Rhineland, Hochwald, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940
'44-45, Madagascar,
Middle East 1942,
North Arakan,
Mayu Tunnels, Kohima, Meiktila, Nyaungu Bridgehead,
Letse, Irrawaddy, Sittang 1945, Burma 1943-45
1. awarded 1882
for service of 40th Regiment.
2. awarded 1909 for services of 40th
Regiment.
3. awarded 1908 for service of 82nd
Regiment.
4. awarded in error and withdrawn 1925.
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
1881-1933:
scarlet; facings: white
1933-1953: scarlet; facings: buff
1953-1958: blue; facings: buff; piping: buff
headdress:
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1881 |
[1st Bn:]
Gen. Augustus Halifax Ferryman, CB [also R Irish
Fus] |
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1881 |
[2nd Bn:]
Gen. William Samuel Newton |
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1889.10.17 |
Gen. Sir Henry Bates, KCB
[also Norfolk Regt] |
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1893.03.03 |
Lt-Gen. Augustus Henry Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers |
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1900.05.05 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Frederick Richard Solly-Flood,
KCB |
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1909.11.26 |
Maj-Gen. Euston Henry Sartorius, VC, CB |
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1921.05.01 |
Maj-Gen. Arthur Solly-Flood, CB, CMG, DSO
[also 4th/7th Dgn
Gds] |
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1940.11.15 |
Gen. Sir Harry Beauchamp Douglas Baird,
KCB, CMG, CIE, DSO [also 4th Bn, 5th
Mahratta LI] |
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1948.01.01 |
Maj-Gen. Edmund Charles Beard, CB, CBE,
MC |
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1957.10.07 |
Brig. Joseph Henry Whalley-Kelly, CBE
[to 1958] |
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Motto: |
Ich dien |
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Nicknames: |
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Anniversaries: |
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Freedoms: |
Warrington (17
Sep. 1947) |
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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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[no external sites have been found] |
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