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(United Kingdom)">Militia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Militia_(United_Kingdom)#The_Special_Reserve" title="Militia (United Kingdom)">Special Reserve</a> battalion<br />2 <a href="/wiki/Army_Reserve_(United_Kingdom)" title="Army Reserve (United Kingdom)">Territorial</a> and <a href="/wiki/Volunteer_Force_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Volunteer Force (Great Britain)">Volunteer</a> battalions<br />Up to 15 Hostilities-only battalions</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">RHQ</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peninsula_Barracks,_Warrington" title="Peninsula Barracks, Warrington">Peninsula Barracks, Warrington</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Lancashire" title="South Lancashire">South Lancashire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Nickname(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>The Excellers</i><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Motto(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Ich dien</i> (I serve)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Engagements</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a><br /><a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a><br /><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p>The <b>South Lancashire Regiment</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Line_infantry" title="Line infantry">line infantry</a> <a href="/wiki/Regiment" title="Regiment">regiment</a> of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> in existence from 1881 to 1958. </p><p>The regiment, which recruited, as its title suggests, primarily from the <a href="/wiki/South_Lancashire" title="South Lancashire">South Lancashire</a> area, was created as part of the <a href="/wiki/Childers_Reforms" title="Childers Reforms">Childers Reforms</a> in 1881 as the <b>Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)</b> by the amalgamation of the <a href="/wiki/40th_(the_2nd_Somersetshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot">40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot</a> and the <a href="/wiki/82nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Volunteers)" title="82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)">82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lgJuly1881_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lgJuly1881-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1938, it was renamed the <b>South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</b><sup id="cite_ref-regiments_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on 1 July 1958 the regiment was amalgamated with the <a href="/wiki/East_Lancashire_Regiment" title="East Lancashire Regiment">East Lancashire Regiment</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Regiment" title="Lancashire Regiment">Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-regiments_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formation_to_the_First_World_War">Formation to the First World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Formation to the First World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1st Battalion was in <a href="/wiki/Ranikhet" title="Ranikhet">Ranikhet</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">India</a>, when the regiment was created as part of the <a href="/wiki/Childers_Reforms" title="Childers Reforms">Childers Reforms</a> in 1881 as the <b>Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)</b> by the amalgamation of the <a href="/wiki/40th_(the_2nd_Somersetshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot">40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot</a> and the <a href="/wiki/82nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Volunteers)" title="82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)">82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lgJuly1881_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lgJuly1881-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was deployed to <a href="/wiki/Aden" title="Aden">Aden</a> in 1884 and returned to the United Kingdom in 1886, where it remained until 1899. The 1st Battalion lost 41 men during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Spion_Kop" title="Battle of Spion Kop">Battle of Spion Kop</a> in February 1900, but then captured Green Hill at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Tugela_Heights" title="Battle of the Tugela Heights">Battle of the Tugela Heights</a> later that month during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the same time as the 40th and 82nd regiments amalgamated to form the South Lancashire Regiment, the <a href="/wiki/4th_Royal_Lancashire_Militia_(The_Duke_of_Lancaster%27s_Own_Light_Infantry)" title="4th Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Light Infantry)">4th Royal Lancashire Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Light Infantry)</a> became the new regiment's 3rd Battalion.<sup id="cite_ref-Handlist_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Handlist-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-regiments_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1881, the local units of the <a href="/wiki/Volunteer_Force_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Volunteer Force (Great Britain)">Volunteer Force</a> were affiliated to the regiment. In 1886, the 9th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps at <a href="/wiki/Warrington" title="Warrington">Warrington</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newton,_Merseyside" title="Newton, Merseyside">Newton</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/5th_Battalion,_South_Lancashire_Regiment" title="5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment">21st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps</a> at <a href="/wiki/St_Helens,_Merseyside" title="St Helens, Merseyside">St Helens</a> and <a href="/wiki/Widnes" title="Widnes">Widnes</a> became the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions of the regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-Westlake_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westlake-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2nd Battalion spent most of the first 30 years of its existence overseas, while the 3rd Battalion was embodied specifically for service in the Second Boer War.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions raised a service company to reinforce the 1st Battalion in the field.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the end of the war in South Africa in 1902, the 1st battalion was sent to <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a>, where they replaced the 2nd battalion in <a href="/wiki/Jubbulpore" class="mw-redirect" title="Jubbulpore">Jubbulpore</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bengal_Presidency" title="Bengal Presidency">Bengal</a>. The 2nd battalion returned home, for the first times since 1884.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1908, the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally, with the former becoming the <a href="/wiki/Territorial_Force" title="Territorial Force">Territorial Force</a> and the latter the <a href="/wiki/Special_Reserve_(militia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Reserve (militia)">Special Reserve</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the regiment now had one Reserve battalion and two Territorial battalions.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-regiments_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Westlake_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Westlake-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_First_World_War">The First World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The First World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Locre_N%C2%B010_Cem.11_1.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Locre_N%C2%B010_Cem.11_1.JPG/220px-Locre_N%C2%B010_Cem.11_1.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Locre_N%C2%B010_Cem.11_1.JPG/330px-Locre_N%C2%B010_Cem.11_1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Locre_N%C2%B010_Cem.11_1.JPG/440px-Locre_N%C2%B010_Cem.11_1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Grave of 31097 Private W. Jaundrell buried at Locre No.10 Cemetery, <a href="/wiki/Loker" title="Loker">Loker</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Regular_Army">Regular Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Regular Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1st Battalion spent the war on garrison duty in <a href="/wiki/Quetta" title="Quetta">Quetta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balochistan" title="Balochistan">Baluchistan</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_North-West_Frontier" title="Military history of the North-West Frontier">North-West Frontier</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2nd Battalion landed at <a href="/wiki/Le_Havre" title="Le Havre">Le Havre</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/7th_Infantry_Brigade_and_Headquarters_East" class="mw-redirect" title="7th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters East">7th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Division_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Division (United Kingdom)">3rd Division</a> in August 1914 and spent the entire war on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Special_Reserve">Special Reserve</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Special Reserve"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/3rd_(Reserve)_Battalion,_South_Lancashire_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd (Reserve) Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment">3rd (Reserve) Battalion</a> spent the whole war in England, initially at <a href="/wiki/Crosby,_Merseyside" title="Crosby, Merseyside">Crosby</a>, later at <a href="/wiki/Barrow-in-Furness" title="Barrow-in-Furness">Barrow-in-Furness</a> in the Barrow Garrison, fulfilling its dual role of coast defence and preparing reinforcement drafts of regular reservists, special reservists, recruits and returning wounded for the regular battalions serving overseas. Thousands of men would have passed through its ranks during the war. In September and October 1914, it probably assisted in the formation of 10th (Reserve) Battalion, South Lancashires, at Crosby from <a href="/wiki/Kitchener%27s_Army" title="Kitchener's Army">Kitchener's Army</a> volunteers.<sup id="cite_ref-LancsInfMusMil_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LancsInfMusMil-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Frederick_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frederick-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-James_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Territorial_Force">Territorial Force</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Territorial Force"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1/4th Battalion landed at Le Havre as part of the 7th Brigade in the 3rd Division in February 1915 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/5th_Battalion,_South_Lancashire_Regiment" title="5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment">1/5th Battalion</a> landed at Le Havre as part of the <a href="/wiki/12th_Armoured_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="12th Armoured Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">12th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/4th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)">4th Division</a> in February 1915 also for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2/4th and <a href="/wiki/5th_Battalion,_South_Lancashire_Regiment" title="5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment">2/5th Battalions</a> landed at <a href="/wiki/Boulogne-sur-Mer" title="Boulogne-sur-Mer">Boulogne</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/172nd_(2/1st_South_Lancashire)_Brigade" title="172nd (2/1st South Lancashire) Brigade">172nd (2/1st South Lancashire) Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/57th_(2nd_West_Lancashire)_Division" title="57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division">57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division</a> in February 1917 also for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_Army_Battalions">New Army Battalions</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: New Army Battalions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 6th (Service) Battalion landed at <a href="/wiki/Cape_Helles" title="Cape Helles">Cape Helles</a> in <a href="/wiki/Gallipoli" title="Gallipoli">Gallipoli</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/38th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="38th Brigade (United Kingdom)">38th Brigade</a> in <a href="/wiki/13th_(Western)_Division" title="13th (Western) Division">13th (Western) Division</a> in July 1915;<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a detachment from the battalion was commanded by Captain <a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a>, who fell ill with <a href="/wiki/Dysentery" title="Dysentery">dysentery</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallipoli Campaign">campaign</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but went on to become <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">prime minister</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The battalion was evacuated from Gallipoli and went to Egypt in December 1915 before moving on to <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> in February 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 7th (Service) Battalion landed at Boulogne as part of the <a href="/wiki/56th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="56th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">56th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/19th_(Western)_Division" title="19th (Western) Division">19th (Western) Division</a> in July 1915 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 8th (Service) Battalion landed in France as part of the <a href="/wiki/75th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="75th Brigade (United Kingdom)">75th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/25th_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="25th Division (United Kingdom)">25th Division</a> in September 1915 also for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 9th (Service) Battalion landed in France as part of the <a href="/wiki/66th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="66th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">66th Brigade</a> in the <a href="/wiki/22nd_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="22nd Division (United Kingdom)">22nd Division</a> in September 1915 for service on the Western Front but transferred to <a href="/wiki/Thessaloniki" title="Thessaloniki">Salonika</a> in November 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 11th (Service) Battalion (St Helens Pioneers) landed at Le Havre as pioneer battalion to the <a href="/wiki/30th_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="30th Division (United Kingdom)">30th Division</a> in November 1915 for service on the Western Front.<sup id="cite_ref-James_14-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trail_15-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Between_the_world_wars">Between the world wars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Between the world wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1st Battalion saw action on the <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_North-West_Frontier" title="Military history of the North-West Frontier">North West Frontier</a> in May 1919 and then took part in <a href="/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War" title="Third Anglo-Afghan War">Third Anglo-Afghan War</a> in July 1919.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Armistice_with_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Armistice with Germany">Armistice with Germany</a> the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion went to <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a> and in 1919 it was stationed in <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> carrying out duties in support of the civil power during the <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Ireland" title="Partition of Ireland">Partition crisis</a>. It returned to England to be disembodied later in the year.<sup id="cite_ref-LancsInfMusMil_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LancsInfMusMil-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_World_War">Second World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Second World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Regular_Army_2">Regular Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Regular Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1st Battalion, a <a href="/wiki/Regular_army" title="Regular army">Regular Army</a> battalion, was shipped to France on the outbreak of war in 1939 as part of the <a href="/wiki/12th_Armoured_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="12th Armoured Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">12th Infantry Brigade</a>, <a href="/wiki/4th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)">4th Infantry Division</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_II)" title="British Expeditionary Force (World War II)">British Expeditionary Force</a>, returning to England via <a href="/wiki/Operation_Dynamo" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Dynamo">Dunkirk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After returning to the United Kingdom, it was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/8th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="8th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">8th Infantry Brigade</a> (which included the 1st <a href="/wiki/Suffolk_Regiment" title="Suffolk Regiment">Suffolk Regiment</a> and 2nd <a href="/wiki/East_Yorkshire_Regiment" title="East Yorkshire Regiment">East Yorkshire Regiment</a>) attached to the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Division_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Division (United Kingdom)">3rd Infantry Division</a>, nicknamed <i><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery,_1st_Viscount_Montgomery_of_Alamein" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein">Monty</a>'s Ironsides</i>. With this division, it landed at <a href="/wiki/Sword_Beach" title="Sword Beach">Sword Beach</a> on <a href="/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings">D-Day</a> and fought its way through the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">Normandy</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> and later the <a href="/wiki/Western_Allied_invasion_of_Germany" title="Western Allied invasion of Germany">invasion of Germany</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Troops_from_the_1st_Battalion,_South_Lancashire_Regiment_man_trenches_in_the_front_line_in_Holland,_25_November_1944._B12134.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Troops_from_the_1st_Battalion%2C_South_Lancashire_Regiment_man_trenches_in_the_front_line_in_Holland%2C_25_November_1944._B12134.jpg/220px-Troops_from_the_1st_Battalion%2C_South_Lancashire_Regiment_man_trenches_in_the_front_line_in_Holland%2C_25_November_1944._B12134.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Troops_from_the_1st_Battalion%2C_South_Lancashire_Regiment_man_trenches_in_the_front_line_in_Holland%2C_25_November_1944._B12134.jpg/330px-Troops_from_the_1st_Battalion%2C_South_Lancashire_Regiment_man_trenches_in_the_front_line_in_Holland%2C_25_November_1944._B12134.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Troops_from_the_1st_Battalion%2C_South_Lancashire_Regiment_man_trenches_in_the_front_line_in_Holland%2C_25_November_1944._B12134.jpg/440px-Troops_from_the_1st_Battalion%2C_South_Lancashire_Regiment_man_trenches_in_the_front_line_in_Holland%2C_25_November_1944._B12134.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1790" data-file-height="1772" /></a><figcaption>Men of the 1st Battalion in action in the Netherlands, November 1944</figcaption></figure> <p>The 2nd Battalion was in <a href="/wiki/Bombay" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombay">Bombay</a> in 1939, being transported back to Britain in July 1940 to defend the home front against the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion" title="Operation Sea Lion">expected German invasion</a>. In 1942, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel <a href="/wiki/Michael_West_(British_Army_officer)" title="Michael West (British Army officer)">Michael West</a>, later to become a full general, attached to the <a href="/wiki/29th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="29th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">29th Independent Infantry Brigade</a>, it was part of Force 121, which <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Madagascar" title="Battle of Madagascar">invaded Madagascar</a> in order to prevent use of the island by the Japanese.<sup id="cite_ref-ww2_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ww2-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From April 1944 until the end of the war, it fought in the <a href="/wiki/Burma_Campaign_1944%E2%80%931945" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma Campaign 1944–1945">recapture of Burma</a>, initially with the <a href="/wiki/36th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="36th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)">36th Infantry Division</a> alongside the 2nd Battalion, <a href="/wiki/East_Lancashire_Regiment" title="East Lancashire Regiment">East Lancashire Regiment</a>. The 2nd battalion was then transferred to the <a href="/wiki/14th_Indian_Infantry_Brigade" title="14th Indian Infantry Brigade">114th Indian Infantry Brigade</a>, <a href="/wiki/7th_Indian_Infantry_Division" title="7th Indian Infantry Division">7th Indian Infantry Division</a>, serving with them until July 1945, when the Battalion came under command of the 20th Indian Division.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Territorial_Army">Territorial Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Territorial Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 2/4th Battalion was raised in 1939 as a 2nd Line <a href="/wiki/Army_Reserve_(United_Kingdom)" title="Army Reserve (United Kingdom)">Territorial Army</a> battalion duplicate of the 1st Line 4th Battalion, later redesignated the 1/4th Battalion. Both the 1/4th and 2/4th battalions served in the <a href="/wiki/164th_(North_Lancashire)_Brigade" title="164th (North Lancashire) Brigade">164th Infantry Brigade</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/55th_(West_Lancashire)_Infantry_Division" title="55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division">55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division</a>. In 1943, the 2/4th Battalion was transferred to the British Army's <a href="/wiki/Airborne_forces" title="Airborne forces">airborne forces</a> and converted to become the <a href="/wiki/13th_(Lancashire)_Parachute_Battalion" title="13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion">13th Parachute Battalion</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parachute_Regiment_(United_Kingdom)" title="Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)">Parachute Regiment</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/5th_Parachute_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="5th Parachute Brigade (United Kingdom)">5th Parachute Brigade</a>, which itself was part of the newly raised <a href="/wiki/6th_Airborne_Division_(United_Kingdom)" title="6th Airborne Division (United Kingdom)">6th Airborne Division</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 13th Parachute Battalion saw combat during <a href="/wiki/Operation_Tonga" title="Operation Tonga">Operation Tonga</a>, the British airborne landings in the early hours of 6 June 1944, <a href="/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings">D-Day</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The battalion served as normal infantrymen for the duration of the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">Battle of Normandy</a> until being withdrawn, with the rest of the division, to <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> in September 1944. The 6th Airborne Division was then sent to Belgium in December 1944 to fight in the Ardennes offensive, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were then involved in the largest airborne drop of the entire war with over 16,000 airborne troops taking part, known as <a href="/wiki/Operation_Varsity" title="Operation Varsity">Operation Varsity</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/17th_Airborne_Division_(United_States)" title="17th Airborne Division (United States)">US 17th Airborne Division</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:6thbritairborneranville.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/6thbritairborneranville.jpg/220px-6thbritairborneranville.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/6thbritairborneranville.jpg/330px-6thbritairborneranville.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/6thbritairborneranville.jpg/440px-6thbritairborneranville.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="796" /></a><figcaption>British paratroopers of the 13th Parachute Battalion in Normandy</figcaption></figure> <p>The 5th Territorial Battalion of the regiment was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery" title="Royal Artillery">Royal Artillery</a> before the war and converted into the <a href="/wiki/5th_Battalion,_South_Lancashire_Regiment" title="5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment">61st (South Lancashire) Searchlight Regiment</a>. It served in North West England, in <a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkney</a>, and in <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a> against <a href="/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb" title="V-1 flying bomb">V-1 flying bombs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mullaly376_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mullaly376-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In late 1944, it became the <a href="/wiki/61st_(South_Lancashire_Regiment)_Garrison_Regiment,_Royal_Artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="61st (South Lancashire Regiment) Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery">61st (South Lancashire Regiment) Garrison Regiment, Royal Artillery</a>. In early 1945, due to a severe shortage of infantrymen in the <a href="/wiki/21st_Army_Group" title="21st Army Group">21st Army Group</a>, the regiment was converted into the <a href="/wiki/5th_Battalion,_South_Lancashire_Regiment" title="5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment">612th (South Lancashire Regiment) Infantry Regiment, Royal Artillery</a> and joined the <a href="/wiki/306th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="306th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">306th Infantry Brigade</a>, thereby releasing trained infantrymen for frontline service.<sup id="cite_ref-Mullaly376_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mullaly376-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hostilities-only">Hostilities-only</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Hostilities-only"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The regiment raised many other battalions for service before and during the war but most were disbanded before the war's end. The 6th (<a href="/wiki/Home_Service_Battalions" title="Home Service Battalions">Home Defence</a>) Battalion was raised in 1939 and, in 1941, was redesignated the 30th Battalion. It was disbanded in January 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 7th and 8th battalions were both raised in 1940 and joined the <a href="/wiki/204th_Independent_Infantry_Brigade_(Home)" title="204th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home)">204th Infantry Brigade</a>. On 1 September 1942, the brigade was redesignated the <a href="/wiki/185th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="185th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">185th Infantry Brigade</a> and the 7th Battalion was sent to <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">India</a>, where it remained until disbandment in 1946, as a training battalion with the <a href="/wiki/52nd_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="52nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">52nd Brigade</a>. The battalion's role was training British infantry replacements in <a href="/wiki/Jungle_warfare" title="Jungle warfare">jungle warfare</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Army_(United_Kingdom)" title="Fourteenth Army (United Kingdom)">British Fourteenth Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 50th (Holding) Battalion was raised in 1940. That October, it was redesignated as the 9th Battalion and joined the <a href="/wiki/225th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="225th Brigade (United Kingdom)">225th Infantry Brigade</a> and then the <a href="/wiki/207th_Independent_Infantry_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)" title="207th Independent Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)">207th Infantry Brigade</a>. The battalion remained in the United Kingdom for the war and was later transferred to the 164th Infantry Brigade, alongside the 1/4th Battalion, and supplied replacements to units overseas. It was apparently disbanded in July 1944, but another source claims it was disbanded in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-regiments_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peace_and_amalgamation">Peace and amalgamation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Peace and amalgamation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Immediately after the war, the 1st Battalion served in Egypt and Palestine before being reduced to a cadre and amalgamated with the 2nd Battalion at <a href="/wiki/Trieste" title="Trieste">Trieste</a> in 1948. The surviving 1st Battalion saw further service in the <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a>, Britain, <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> where, in 1958, it was amalgamated with 1st Battalion, the <a href="/wiki/East_Lancashire_Regiment" title="East Lancashire Regiment">East Lancashire Regiment</a>, to form 1st Battalion, the <a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Regiment" title="Lancashire Regiment">Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</a> which was later amalgamated with the <a href="/wiki/Loyal_Regiment_(North_Lancashire)" title="Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)">Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Lancashire_Regiment" title="Queen's Lancashire Regiment">Queen's Lancashire Regiment</a> which was, however, merged with the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Regiment" title="King's Regiment">King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester)</a>, the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Royal_Border_Regiment" title="King's Own Royal Border Regiment">King's Own Royal Border Regiment</a>, in 2007, to form the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Lancaster%27s_Regiment" title="Duke of Lancaster's Regiment">Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-regiments_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regimental_museum">Regimental museum</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Regimental museum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Infantry_Museum" title="Lancashire Infantry Museum">Lancashire Infantry Museum</a> is based at <a href="/wiki/Fulwood_Barracks" title="Fulwood Barracks">Fulwood Barracks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Preston,_Lancashire" title="Preston, Lancashire">Preston</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Battle_honours">Battle honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Battle honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A.Winder_4257.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/A.Winder_4257.jpg/220px-A.Winder_4257.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/A.Winder_4257.jpg/330px-A.Winder_4257.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/A.Winder_4257.jpg/440px-A.Winder_4257.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>Grave of a South Lancashire private killed in 1918, in the <a href="/wiki/Bar-le-Duc" title="Bar-le-Duc">Bar-le-Duc</a> Cemetery.</figcaption></figure> <p>The regiment was awarded the following <a href="/wiki/Battle_honours_of_the_British_and_Imperial_Armies" title="Battle honours of the British and Imperial Armies">battle honours</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-regiments_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>From 40th Regiment of Foot</i>: Egypt, Monte Video, Rolica, Vimiera, Talavera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Waterloo, Candahar 1842, Ghuznee 1842, Cabool 1842, Maharajpore, New Zealand</li> <li><i>From 82nd Regiment of Foot</i>: Rolica, Vimiera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Peninsula, Niagara, Sevastopol, Lucknow</li> <li>Louisburg, Martinique 1762, Havannah, St. Lucia 1778, Corunna, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902</li> <li><i>Great War (20 battalions)</i>: 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 Sorrel<sup>1</sup>, 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</li> <li>Afghanistan 1919</li> <li><i>Second World War</i>: 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</li></ul> <p>1. Awarded in error, and withdrawn in 1925 </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Victoria_Crosses">Victoria Crosses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Victoria Crosses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following members of the Regiment were awarded the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Cross" title="Victoria Cross">Victoria Cross</a>: </p> <ul><li>Colour-Serjeant <a href="/wiki/John_Lucas_(VC)" title="John Lucas (VC)">John Lucas</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Wars" title="New Zealand Wars">New Zealand Wars</a><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Private <a href="/wiki/William_Ratcliffe" title="William Ratcliffe">William Ratcliffe</a>, 2nd Battalion, <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">Great War</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_lieutenant" title="Second lieutenant">2nd Lieutenant</a> (later <a href="/wiki/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)" title="Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)">Captain</a>), 3rd Battalion, <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Coury" title="Gabriel Coury">Gabriel George Coury</a>, Great War<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Private_(rank)" title="Private (rank)">Private</a> (later Sergeant) <a href="/wiki/John_Readitt" title="John Readitt">John Readitt</a>, 6th (Service) Battalion, Great War<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporal" title="Corporal">Corporal</a> (later Captain) <a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_Davies" title="John Thomas Davies">John Thomas Davies</a>, 11th (Service) Battalion, Great War<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regimental_Colonels">Regimental Colonels</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Regimental Colonels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Colonels of the regiment were:<sup id="cite_ref-regiments_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regiments-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>The Prince of Wales's Volunteers Regiment (South Lancashire Regiment)</dt></dl> <ul><li>1881–?1889 (1st Battalion): Gen. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Augustus_Halifax_Ferryman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Augustus Halifax Ferryman (page does not exist)">Augustus Halifax Ferryman</a>, CB</li> <li>1881–1889 (2nd Battalion): Gen. <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Samuel_Newton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Samuel Newton (page does not exist)">William Samuel Newton</a></li> <li>1889–1893: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Henry_Bates_(British_Army_officer)" title="Henry Bates (British Army officer)">Henry Bates</a>, KCB</li> <li>1893–1900: Lt-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Pitt-Rivers" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustus Pitt-Rivers">Augustus Henry Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers</a></li> <li>1900–1909: Maj-Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Solly-Flood_(British_Army_officer)" title="Frederick Solly-Flood (British Army officer)">Frederick Richard Solly-Flood</a>, KCB</li> <li>1909–1921: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Euston_Henry_Sartorius" class="mw-redirect" title="Euston Henry Sartorius">Euston Henry Sartorius</a>, VC, CB</li> <li>1921–1940: Maj-Gen. Arthur Solly-Flood, CB, CMG, DSO</li></ul> <dl><dt>The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) - (1938)</dt></dl> <ul><li>1940–1948: Gen. Sir <a href="/wiki/Harry_Beauchamp_Douglas_Baird" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Beauchamp Douglas Baird">Harry Beauchamp Douglas Baird</a>, KCB, CMG, CIE, DSO</li> <li>1948–1957: Maj-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Charles_Beard" title="Edmund Charles Beard">Edmund Charles Beard</a>, CB, CBE, MC</li> <li>1957–1958: Brig. Joseph Henry Whalley-Kelly, CBE</li> <li><i>1958: Regiment amalgamated with <a href="/wiki/The_East_Lancashire_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="The East Lancashire Regiment">The East Lancashire Regiment</a> to form <a href="/wiki/The_Lancashire_Regiment_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Volunteers)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)">The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Lancashire_Regiment&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Frederick, <i>Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978</i>, Vol I, Wakefield: Microform Academic, 1984, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85117-007-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-85117-007-3">1-85117-007-3</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGregoryBatchelor1979" class="citation book cs1">Gregory, Barry; Batchelor, John (1979). <i>Airborne warfare, 1918-1945</i>. Exeter, Devon: Exeter Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89673-025-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-89673-025-5"><bdi>0-89673-025-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Airborne+warfare%2C+1918-1945&rft.place=Exeter%2C+Devon&rft.pub=Exeter+Books&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=0-89673-025-5&rft.aulast=Gregory&rft.aufirst=Barry&rft.au=Batchelor%2C+John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASouth+Lancashire+Regiment" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Brig E.A. James, <i>British Regiments 1914–18</i>, London: Samson Books, 1978/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2001, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84342-197-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84342-197-9">978-1-84342-197-9</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMullaly1955" class="citation book cs1">Mullaly, Colonel B.R. (1955). <i>The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</i>. Bristol: White Swan Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+South+Lancashire+Regiment+%28The+Prince+of+Wales%27s+Volunteers%29&rft.pub=Bristol%3A+White+Swan+Press&rft.date=1955&rft.aulast=Mullaly&rft.aufirst=Colonel+B.R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASouth+Lancashire+Regiment" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOtway1990" class="citation book cs1">Otway, Lieutenant-Colonel T.B.H. (1990). <i>The Second World War 1939–1945 Army – Airborne Forces</i>. Imperial War Museum. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901627-57-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-901627-57-7"><bdi>0-901627-57-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Second+World+War+1939%E2%80%931945+Army+%E2%80%93+Airborne+Forces&rft.pub=Imperial+War+Museum&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-901627-57-7&rft.aulast=Otway&rft.aufirst=Lieutenant-Colonel+T.B.H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASouth+Lancashire+Regiment" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWestlake2010" class="citation book cs1">Westlake, Ray (2010). <i>Tracing the Rifle Volunteers</i>. 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title="Border Regiment">Border Regiment</a> <small>(1881–1959)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Lancashire_Regiment" title="East Lancashire Regiment">East Lancashire Regiment</a> <small>(1881–1958)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Royal_Regiment_(Lancaster)" title="King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)">King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)</a> <small>(1680–1959)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loyal_Regiment_(North_Lancashire)" title="Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)">Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)</a> <small>(1881–1970)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Regiment" title="Manchester Regiment">Manchester Regiment</a> <small>(1881–1958)</small></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">South Lancashire Regiment</a> <small>(1881–1958)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/34th_(Cumberland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot">34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1702–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/55th_(Westmorland)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot">55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1755–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Regiment_(Liverpool)" title="King's Regiment (Liverpool)">King's Regiment (Liverpool)</a> <small>(1685–1958)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/63rd_(West_Suffolk)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot">63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1744–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/96th_Regiment_of_Foot" title="96th Regiment of Foot">96th Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1798–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30th_(Cambridgeshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot">30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1702–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/59th_(2nd_Nottinghamshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot">59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1755–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/40th_(the_2nd_Somersetshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot">40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1717–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/82nd_Regiment_of_Foot_(Prince_of_Wales%27s_Volunteers)" title="82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)">82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)</a> <small>(1793–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/47th_(Lancashire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot">47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot</a> <small>(1741–1881)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/81st_Regiment_of_Foot_(Loyal_Lincoln_Volunteers)" title="81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)">81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers)</a> <small>(1793–1881)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2nd generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Royal_Border_Regiment" title="King's Own Royal Border Regiment">King's Own Royal Border Regiment</a> <small>(1959–2006)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Regiment" title="King's Regiment">King's Regiment</a> <small>(1958–2006)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Regiment" title="Lancashire Regiment">Lancashire Regiment</a> <small>(1958–1970)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Lancashire_Regiment" title="Queen's Lancashire Regiment">Queen's Lancashire Regiment</a> <small>(1970–2006)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Cross" title="Victoria Cross">Victoria Cross</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Grady" title="Thomas Grady">Thomas Grady</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Christian" title="Harry Christian">Harry Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Miller_(VC_1916)" title="James Miller (VC 1916)">James Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_White_(VC)" title="Jack White (VC)">Jack White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Fletcher_Mayson" title="Tom Fletcher Mayson">Tom Fletcher Mayson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Halton" title="Albert Halton">Albert Halton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Henry_Collin" title="Joseph Henry Collin">Joseph Henry Collin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hewitson" title="James Hewitson">James Hewitson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Neely" title="Thomas Neely">Thomas Neely</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Addison_(VC)" title="William Addison (VC)">William Robert Fontaine Addison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Hampton" title="Harry Hampton">Harry Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_James_Knight" title="Henry James Knight">Henry James Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Edward_Heaton" title="William Edward Heaton">William Edward Heaton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Harcourt_Tombs" title="Joseph Harcourt Tombs">Joseph Harcourt Tombs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Felix_Baxter" title="Edward Felix Baxter">Edward Felix Baxter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Herbert_Procter" title="Arthur Herbert Procter">Arthur Herbert Procter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Jones_(VC)" title="David Jones (VC)">David Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Reid" title="Oswald Reid">Oswald Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Thomas_Counter" title="Jack Thomas Counter">Jack Thomas Counter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Pitts_(VC)" title="James Pitts (VC)">James Pitts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Scott_(VC)" title="Robert Scott (VC)">Robert Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Leach_(VC)" title="James Leach (VC)">James Leach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hogan_(VC)" title="John Hogan (VC)">John Hogan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Issy_Smith" title="Issy Smith">Issy Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Forshaw" title="William Forshaw">William Forshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Stringer" title="George Stringer">George Stringer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Evans_(VC)" title="George Evans (VC)">George Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Harry_Coverdale" title="Charles Harry Coverdale">Charles Harry Coverdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Mills_(VC)" title="Walter Mills (VC)">Walter Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilfrith_Elstob" title="Wilfrith Elstob">Wilfrith Elstob</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Robert_Wilkinson" title="Alfred Robert Wilkinson">Alfred Robert Wilkinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Kirk_(VC)" title="James Kirk (VC)">James Kirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Stuart_Henderson" title="George Stuart Henderson">George Stuart Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McDermond" title="John McDermond">John McDermond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Walker_(VC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Walker (VC)">Mark Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lucas_(VC)" title="John Lucas (VC)">John Lucas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euston_Sartorius" title="Euston Sartorius">Euston Sartorius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Bent" title="Spencer Bent">Spencer Bent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Edward_Kenny" title="Henry Edward Kenny">Henry Edward Kenny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Young_(VC)" title="William Young (VC)">William Young</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Victor_Smith" title="Alfred Victor Smith">Alfred Victor Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Basil_Brandram_Jones" title="Richard Basil Brandram Jones">Richard Basil Brandram Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Orde_Lawder_Wilkinson" title="Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson">Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Coury" title="Gabriel Coury">Gabriel Coury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Readitt" title="John Readitt">John Readitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ratcliffe" title="William Ratcliffe">William Ratcliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_Davies" title="John Thomas Davies">John Thomas Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Horsfall" title="Basil Horsfall">Basil Horsfall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Ervine-Andrews" title="Marcus Ervine-Andrews">Marcus Ervine-Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willward_Alexander_Sandys-Clarke" title="Willward Alexander Sandys-Clarke">Willward Alexander Sandys-Clarke</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Division" title="King's Division">King's Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_and_Cheshire_Regiment" title="King's and Cheshire Regiment">King's and Cheshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancastrian_and_Cumbrian_Volunteers" title="Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers">Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Militia" title="Lancashire Militia">Lancashire Militia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="British_infantry_regiments_of_the_First_World_War" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist 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0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grenadier_Guards" title="Grenadier Guards">Grenadier Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coldstream_Guards" title="Coldstream Guards">Coldstream Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scots_Guards" title="Scots Guards">Scots Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Guards" title="Irish Guards">Irish Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Guards" title="Welsh Guards">Welsh Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guards_Machine_Gun_Regiment" title="Guards Machine Gun Regiment">Guards Machine Gun Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Household_Battalion" title="Household Battalion">Household Battalion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Line regiments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Scots" title="Royal Scots">Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Royal_Regiment_(West_Surrey)" title="Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)">Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buffs_(Royal_East_Kent_Regiment)" title="Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)">Buffs (East Kent Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Royal_Regiment_(Lancaster)" title="King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)">King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Northumberland_Fusiliers" title="Royal Northumberland Fusiliers">Northumberland Fusiliers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Warwickshire_Regiment" title="Royal Warwickshire Regiment">Royal Warwickshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Fusiliers" title="Royal Fusiliers">Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Regiment_(Liverpool)" title="King's Regiment (Liverpool)">King's (Liverpool Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Norfolk_Regiment" title="Royal Norfolk Regiment">Norfolk Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Lincolnshire_Regiment" title="Royal Lincolnshire Regiment">Lincolnshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devonshire_Regiment" title="Devonshire Regiment">Devonshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suffolk_Regiment" title="Suffolk Regiment">Suffolk Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Light_Infantry" title="Somerset Light Infantry">Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Regiment" title="West Yorkshire Regiment">Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Yorkshire_Regiment" title="East Yorkshire Regiment">East Yorkshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire_and_Hertfordshire_Regiment" title="Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment">Bedfordshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Leicestershire_Regiment" title="Royal Leicestershire Regiment">Leicestershire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Regiment_(1684%E2%80%931922)" title="Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922)">Royal Irish Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Howards" title="Green Howards">Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_Fusiliers" title="Lancashire Fusiliers">Lancashire Fusiliers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Scots_Fusiliers" title="Royal Scots Fusiliers">Royal Scots Fusiliers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment" title="Cheshire Regiment">Cheshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" title="Royal Welch Fusiliers">Royal Welsh Fusiliers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Wales_Borderers" title="South Wales Borderers">South Wales Borderers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Scottish_Borderers" title="King's Own Scottish Borderers">King's Own Scottish Borderers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cameronians_(Scottish_Rifles)" title="Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)">Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Inniskilling_Fusiliers" title="Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers">Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire_Regiment" title="Gloucestershire Regiment">Gloucestershire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worcestershire_Regiment" title="Worcestershire Regiment">Worcestershire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Lancashire_Regiment" title="East Lancashire Regiment">East Lancashire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Surrey_Regiment" title="East Surrey Regiment">East Surrey Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Cornwall%27s_Light_Infantry" title="Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry">Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington%27s_Regiment" title="Duke of Wellington's Regiment">Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Regiment" title="Border Regiment">Border Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Sussex_Regiment" title="Royal Sussex Regiment">Royal Sussex Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Hampshire_Regiment" title="Royal Hampshire Regiment">Hampshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Staffordshire_Regiment" title="South Staffordshire Regiment">South Staffordshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorset_Regiment" title="Dorset Regiment">Dorsetshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welch_Regiment" title="Welch Regiment">Welsh Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Watch" title="Black Watch">Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire_and_Buckinghamshire_Light_Infantry" title="Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry">Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essex_Regiment" title="Essex Regiment">Essex Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Foresters" title="Sherwood Foresters">Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loyal_Regiment_(North_Lancashire)" title="Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)">Loyal North Lancashire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire_Regiment" title="Northamptonshire Regiment">Northamptonshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Berkshire_Regiment" title="Royal Berkshire Regiment">Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Own_Royal_West_Kent_Regiment" title="Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment">Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Yorkshire_Light_Infantry" title="King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry">King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Shropshire_Light_Infantry" title="King's Shropshire Light Infantry">King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesex_Regiment" title="Middlesex Regiment">Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Rifle_Corps" title="King's Royal Rifle Corps">King's Royal Rifle Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiltshire_Regiment" title="Wiltshire Regiment">Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Regiment" title="Manchester Regiment">Manchester Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Staffordshire_Regiment" title="North Staffordshire Regiment">Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/York_and_Lancaster_Regiment" title="York and Lancaster Regiment">York and Lancaster Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durham_Light_Infantry" title="Durham Light Infantry">Durham Light Infantry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Light_Infantry" title="Highland Light Infantry">Highland Light Infantry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seaforth_Highlanders" title="Seaforth Highlanders">Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Highlanders" title="Gordon Highlanders">Gordon Highlanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Own_Cameron_Highlanders" title="Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders">Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Rifles" title="Royal Ulster Rifles">Royal Irish Rifles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Fusiliers" title="Royal Irish Fusiliers">Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connaught_Rangers" title="Connaught Rangers">Connaught Rangers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argyll_and_Sutherland_Highlanders" title="Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders">Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales%27s_Leinster_Regiment_(Royal_Canadians)" title="Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)">Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Dublin_Fusiliers" title="Royal Dublin Fusiliers">Royal Dublin Fusiliers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Munster_Fusiliers" title="Royal Munster Fusiliers">Royal Munster Fusiliers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rifle_Brigade_(The_Prince_Consort%27s_Own)" title="Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)">Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Territorial_Force" title="Territorial Force">Territorial Force</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Honourable_Artillery_Company" title="Honourable Artillery Company">Honourable Artillery Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_Regiment" title="Monmouthshire Regiment">Monmouthshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Regiment" title="Cambridgeshire Regiment">Cambridgeshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Regiment_(1908%E2%80%931938)" title="London Regiment (1908–1938)">London Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inns_of_Court_Regiment" title="Inns of Court Regiment">Inns of Court Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hertfordshire_Regiment" title="Hertfordshire Regiment">Hertfordshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herefordshire_Light_Infantry" title="Herefordshire Light Infantry">Herefordshire Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Cyclist_Battalion" title="Northern Cyclist Battalion">Northern Cyclist Battalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Cyclist_Battalion" title="Highland Cyclist Battalion">Highland Cyclist Battalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent_Cyclist_Battalion" title="Kent Cyclist Battalion">Kent Cyclist Battalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_(Huntingdonshire)_Battalion,_Northamptonshire_Regiment" title="5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment">Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Territorial_Force" title="Territorial Force">Territorial Battalions <br /> of Regular<br /> Infantry Regiments</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Rifles" title="Liverpool Rifles">Liverpool Rifles, King's (Liverpool Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Irish" title="Liverpool Irish">Liverpool Irish, King's (Liverpool Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Scottish" title="Liverpool Scottish">Liverpool Scottish, King's (Liverpool Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leeds_Rifles" title="Leeds Rifles">Leeds Rifles, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Battalion,_Royal_Sussex_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment">Cinque Ports Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood_Battalion" title="Robin Hood Battalion">Robin Hood 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