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East Lancashire Regiment

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and in peace time assembled for period of annual training. In time of war it could be "embodied" or mobilised. When the war that broke out in South Africa in 1899 began to absorb a large amount of the regular army's resources, the terms of service of the militia were altered to allow them to serve in
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The volunteer battalions were organised for home defence purposes, and their members were subject to regular drills and training. Like the militia battalion, elements of the volunteers fought in South Africa. While members of the Volunteer Force could not be required to serve overseas, members from
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Under the system introduced in 1881, one battalion of each infantry regiment was to serve at a home station while the other was in a foreign garrison or on active service. Due to the emergency caused by the outbreak of war in
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When the two regiments of foot merged in 1881, new badges were designed that would endure for the rest of the regiment's existence, subject to changes in the style of crown, and which would be worn on the later
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the war. The 3rd Battalion was embodied in January 1900 and served in South Africa until 1902. It was disembodied in March 1902. The battalion was awarded the battle honour "South Africa 1900–1902".
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the battalions were voluntarily formed into Active Service Companies, providing reinforcements for the regular battalion. Both volunteer battalions were awarded battle honours for the war.
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topped by a crown. The laurel wreath had formed part of the insignia of the 59th Foot. A scroll inscribed "EAST LANCASHIRE" at the base of the badge completed the design.
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Between the Wars the East Lancs served in many conflicts including Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Ireland, Turkey, Palestine and the North West Frontier of India.
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on 6 June 1944. The regiment continued to wear its East Lancashire cap badge on the black beret of the RAC. On 1 March 1945 144 RAC was redesignated
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In 1948 the regiment was reduced to a regular battalion which served in the Middle East, Malaya, the Suez Canal Zone, India and Aden. In 1957
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was devised for each regiment or corps. The badge of the East Lancs was the sphinx and "Egypt" above the rose, the whole enclosed within a
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were announced that significantly reduced the size of the army. As a result, the East Lancashire Regiment was amalgamated with The
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in early February 1900, and remained posted in South Africa until after the war ended, leaving Cape Town again in November 1902.
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was a sphinx upon a plinth inscribed "EGYPT". The sphinx had been awarded to the 30th Foot in 1802 to mark its participation in
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The regiment was awarded the following battle honours (those selected for display on the colour are indicated in bold):
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The 1st Battalion, commanded initially by Lieutenant Colonel James Willie Pendlebury, served in France in 1940 with the
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The Territorial Force was restructured into 14 infantry divisions, and the 4th and 5th battalions formed part of the
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Egypt September 1914, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916, Western Front 1917 - 1918. Redesignated as 4th Battalion in 1918
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in 1899 most home service battalions were dispatched to the conflict. The 1st East Lancashire Regiment arrived at
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was doubled in size, with each unit forming a duplicate. Secondly, a number of wartime battalions were formed.
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during its few months in action following the D-Day landings in the area of Galmanche near Epron during
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Home service until March 1917, Western Front March 1917 – February 1918, when it was absorbed by 1/4th.
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of the 1st Battalion was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Dunkirk on 31 May – 1 June 1940.
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Western Front 1915 – 1918. Disbanded February 1918., officers and men transferred to 11th Battalion
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at outbreak of war. To United Kingdom in 1940. South Africa, Madagascar and East Africa 1942 with
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George Forty (1998), "British Army Handbook 1939–1945", Stoud: Sutton Publishing, pp. 50–1, 345.
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Members of the 4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment in trenches near Givenchy on 28 June 1918
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The size of the regiment was increased during the conflict, reaching a total of 17 battalions.
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Embodied at Preston August 1914, served in home stations at Plymouth and Marske by the Sea
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Redesignated 75th Training Reserve Battalion 1916 and ceased to be part of the regiment.
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Redesignation of 5th (TF) Battalion on formation of duplicate 2/5th in September 1914
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Redesignation of 4th (TF) Battalion on formation of duplicate 2/4th in September 1914
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Home service until March 1917, Western Front March 1917 – 1918. Disbanded July 1918.
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2nd Line Territorial battalion. Formed 1939 when 4th/5th Battalion was duplicated.
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1st Line Territorial battalion. Formed 1939 when 4th/5th Battalion was duplicated.
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The East Lancashire Regiment was again increased in size for the duration of the
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the militia and volunteer force were reconstituted as the "Special Reserve" and "
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was redesignated as the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment.
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Egypt September 1914, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916, Western Front 1917 - 1918.
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units of eastern Lancashire. In 1958 the regiment was amalgamated with the
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Gallipoli July 1915, Egypt January 1916, Mesopotamia February 1916 – 1918
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Formed from the East Lancashire company of a Mixed Holding battalion at
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Western Front September – November 1915. Salonika November 1915 – 1918.
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Head-Dress Badges of the British Army: Volume One - Up to the Great War
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in South Africa at outbreak of war, Western Front November 1914 – 1918
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The militia was a reserve force that was only liable to service in the
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Egypt December 1915 – March 1916, Western Front March 1916 – 1918
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Private of the East Lancashire Regiment in pre-1914 full dress by
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Home Service. Converted to reserve battalion 1915, redesignated
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Leeds Rifles, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
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Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
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uniforms. The headdress badge selected for the centre of the
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Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
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The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
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Gibraltar 1704-05, Belle isle, Chitral, South Africa 1900-02
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Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
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Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
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1920–1932: Maj-Gen. Sir Cecil Lothian Nicholson, KCB, CMG
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Redesignation of 8th Garrison Guard Battalion July 1918.
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Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment)
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Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
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British Colours & Standards 1747 – 1881 (2) Infantry
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to replace the original 4th RTR, which had been lost at
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Raised 1940 from 50th (Holding) Battalion, converted to
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Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)
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1944–1946: Maj-Gen. Hugh Tennent MacMullen, CB, CBE, MC
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Military units and formations in Burma in World War II
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The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
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Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
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Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
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to mark the regiment's county affiliation. In 1897 a
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1958
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Military units and formations in Preston, Lancashire
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82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
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1956–1958: Maj-Gen. William Harold Lambert, CB, CBE
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Western Front 1915 – 1918. Disbanded February 1918.
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103rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
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Disbanded August 1944 due to manpower shortage 307:(raised in 1702) and the 2nd Battalion from the 3253:Liverpool Scottish, King's (Liverpool Regiment) 2878:Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) 311:(raised 1755) and the regiment was renamed the 3018:Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1464:, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, 840:Four members of the regiment were awarded the 3345:Regiments of the British Army in World War II 3263:Cinque Ports Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment 3243:Liverpool Rifles, King's (Liverpool Regiment) 2739: 2345:40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot 2204: 1955:Blue Flash: The Story of an Armoured Regiment 1942:Blue Flash: The Story of an Armoured Regiment 1839:"The East Lancashire Regiment in 1914 – 1918" 8: 3340:Regiments of the British Army in World War I 3248:Liverpool Irish, King's (Liverpool Regiment) 3063:Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 777:1916 and ceased to be part of the regiment. 452:Militia and volunteer/territorial battalions 225:. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the 3330:Military units and formations in Lancashire 3123:Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) 2973:Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) 2337:59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot 309:59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot 235:59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot 2746: 2732: 2724: 2230: 2211: 2197: 2189: 1340:King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester) 1264:30th (renumbered from 6th Battalion 1941) 587:1/5th Battalion, posthumously awarded the 267:King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester) 40: 3350:1881 establishments in the United Kingdom 2873:Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry) 2843:Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 1976:(Supplement). 26 July 1940. p. 4659. 1808:"5th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment" 1778:"4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment" 1079:to the UK. During the retreat to Dunkirk 46:Insignia of the East Lancashire Regiment. 3153:Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) 3073:Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) 2079:Kipling, Arthur L; King, Hugh L (2006). 2074: 2072: 1223:55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division 1138:42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division 1069:42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division 1042: 884: 757:Service battalion formed September 1914 746:Service battalion formed September 1914 735:Service battalion formed September 1914 716:Depot and training unit remained in UK. 713:Formed March 1915 as duplicate of 1/5th 680:Formed March 1915 as duplicate of 1/4th 605: 597: 591:for gallantry at Helles in December 1915 576: 329: 168:Spectamur agendo (judge us by our deeds) 1772: 1770: 1659: 1657: 1655: 1653: 1651: 1649: 1647: 1645: 1641: 1119:29th Independent Infantry Brigade Group 683:Depot and training unit remained in UK 519:Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 3048:Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 2329:30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot 2133:. Uckfield: Naval and Military Press. 1549:1881–1889?: (1st Battalion): Gen. Sir 1393:repelling the French invasion of Egypt 1180:59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division 770:Service battalion formed October 1914 724:Service battalion formed August 1914. 305:30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot 303:The 1st Battalion was formed from the 231:30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot 31: 3294:Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey 3053:King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) 2828:King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 2257:King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) 1864:"Army Reorganisation 1873 & 1881" 7: 2818:Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 2313:63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot 2154:"Battle Honours. County Regiments". 1395:. The collar badge selected was the 490:3rd Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps 479:2nd Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps 253:which was, in 1970, merged with the 140:Up to 12 Hostilities-only battalions 2708:Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers 2297:55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot 1241:144th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps 1121:–1943, India and Burma 1943 – 1945 3058:King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) 2361:47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot 2289:34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot 1895:"4th Royal Tank Regiment: Service" 1703:. 1 July 1881. pp. 3300–3301. 547:(formerly 2nd Volunteer Battalion) 536:(formerly 1st Volunteer Battalion) 25: 3221:Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion 2968:Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 2265:Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) 1563:1881–1889: (2nd Battalion): Gen. 1523:, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, 1328:Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) 456:The 1881 reforms also linked the 255:Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) 2682:Willward Alexander Sandys-Clarke 2388:King's Own Royal Border Regiment 1624:1958: Regiment amalgamated with 1336:King's Own Royal Border Regiment 1201:Renumbered 30th Battalion 1941. 1150:38th Infantry (Reserve) Division 1146:80th Infantry (Reserve) Division 263:King's Own Royal Border Regiment 81: 64: 3113:Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 3033:Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 3013:Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 2482:William Robert Fontaine Addison 1545:Colonels of the regiment were: 775:47th Training Reserve Battalion 626:Western Front August 1914–1918 530:3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion 2813:Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) 2029:"Duke of Lancaster's Regiment" 1814:. 15 July 2000. Archived from 1784:. 15 July 2000. Archived from 1751:. 15 July 2000. Archived from 1745:"5th Royal Lancashire Militia" 1671:. 15 July 2000. Archived from 1665:"The East Lancashire Regiment" 1484:, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916–17 1198:battalion formed August 1939. 1100:53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division 1071:. The battalion fought in the 1: 2938:Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 2933:King's Own Scottish Borderers 2108:. Oxford: Osprey. p. 9. 1221:, December 1941, served with 1163:North West Europe 1944–1945. 282:Formation and service to 1914 3171:Honourable Artillery Company 2993:South Staffordshire Regiment 2943:Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 2703:King's and Cheshire Regiment 2647:Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson 2642:Richard Basil Brandram Jones 2220:Duke of Lancaster's Regiment 2057:. Lancashire Infantry Museum 1991:. Lancashire Infantry Museum 1866:. Lancashire Infantry Museum 1407:was introduced, and a metal 1304:Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews 1213:Raised 1940, transferred to 1132:North West Europe 1940 with 471:5th Royal Lancashire Militia 18:The East Lancashire Regiment 3088:York and Lancaster Regiment 2848:King's (Liverpool Regiment) 2838:Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2792:Guards Machine Gun Regiment 2412:Queen's Lancashire Regiment 2305:King's Regiment (Liverpool) 2177:. 11 March 1957. p. 7. 2160:. 13 April 1924. p. 9. 1332:Queen's Lancashire Regiment 1322:on 1 July 1958 to form The 259:Queen's Lancashire Regiment 229:by the amalgamation of the 189:Western Front (World War I) 3376: 3211:Highland Cyclist Battalion 3206:Northern Cyclist Battalion 2823:Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 1360:Lancashire Infantry Museum 1176:2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers 211:was, from 1881 to 1958, a 3038:Northamptonshire Regiment 2281:South Lancashire Regiment 2129:Churchill, Colin (2002). 1320:South Lancashire Regiment 1289:and renumbered 8th 1940. 1012: 1007: 984: 979: 948: 945: 922: 917: 890: 887: 803:Reserve battalion of the 408: 405: 364: 354: 335: 332: 247:South Lancashire Regiment 55:1 July 1881 – 1 July 1958 39: 3320:East Lancashire Regiment 3068:King's Royal Rifle Corps 2958:East Lancashire Regiment 2948:Gloucestershire Regiment 2833:Northumberland Fusiliers 2249:East Lancashire Regiment 1989:"The Regiments Post-War" 1578:Edmund Augustus Whitmore 1229:, disbanded March 1944. 563:East Lancashire Division 313:East Lancashire Regiment 209:East Lancashire Regiment 35:East Lancashire Regiment 3287:Channel Islands Militia 3231:Territorial Battalions 3181:Cambridgeshire Regiment 3148:Royal Munster Fusiliers 3098:Highland Light Infantry 2953:Worcestershire Regiment 2893:Leicestershire Regiment 2883:East Yorkshire Regiment 2597:George Stuart Henderson 2587:Alfred Robert Wilkinson 2572:Charles Harry Coverdale 1590:1913–1920: Lt-Gen. Sir 1267:Home Defence battalion 1253:4th Royal Tank Regiment 559:East Lancashire Brigade 3216:Kent Cyclist Battalion 3201:Herefordshire Regiment 3196:Hertfordshire Regiment 3191:Inns of Court Regiment 3176:Monmouthshire Regiment 3143:Royal Dublin Fusiliers 2512:Arthur Herbert Procter 1551:George Vaughan Maxwell 1243:in 1941 and served in 1227:61st Infantry Division 1142:76th Infantry Division 1134:127th Infantry Brigade 1096:158th Infantry Brigade 1065:126th Infantry Brigade 837: 603: 592: 300: 116:1–2 Regular battalions 3093:Durham Light Infantry 2983:Royal Sussex Regiment 2928:South Wales Borderers 2923:Royal Welsh Fusiliers 2913:Royal Scots Fusiliers 2888:Bedfordshire Regiment 2858:Lincolnshire Regiment 2677:Marcus Ervine-Andrews 2502:Joseph Harcourt Tombs 2497:William Edward Heaton 2321:96th Regiment of Foot 1592:Percy Henry Noel Lake 1585:Thomas Henry Pakenham 1519:, Rhine, Ibbenburen, 1476:, Macedonia 1915–18, 1397:Red Rose of Lancaster 1245:33rd Armoured Brigade 1092:71st Infantry Brigade 871:Basil Arthur Horsfall 835: 601: 580: 294: 27:British Army regiment 2998:Dorsetshire Regiment 2963:East Surrey Regiment 2908:Lancashire Fusiliers 2898:Royal Irish Regiment 2104:Sumner, Ian (2001). 1957:, London 1952, p. 1. 1944:, London 1952, p. 2. 1600:1932–1944: F.M. 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Index

The East Lancashire Regiment

United Kingdom

British Army
Infantry
Line infantry
Militia
Special Reserve
Territorial
Volunteer
Burnley Barracks
Fulwood Barracks
Preston
Second Boer War
Western Front (World War I)
Battle of Dunkirk
Burma Campaign
line
infantry
regiment
British Army
Childers Reforms
30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot
militia
rifle volunteer
South Lancashire Regiment
Lancashire Regiment
Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)

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