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| The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) |
 | 1680 - 1959
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| | | | | | Titles | | pre 1881 | post 1881 | | 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot | The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) | | | | Earliest recognised formation: | 1680 as the 2nd Tangier Regiment (4th Foot in 1751) | | | | Motto: | ? | | | | Regimental Journal: | The Lion and the Rose | | | | WWI: | Battle Honours; 59 | Victoria Crosses; 8 | Died; 6478 | | WWII: | Battle Honours; 23 | Victoria Crosses; nil | Died; ??? | | | | Amalgamated: | 1959, with the Border Regiment to form The King's Own Royal Border Regiment. | | |
| | | | | | Two battalions operational 1804-1815 | Peninsula War 1808 - 1814 1st Battalion | Military General Service Medal. 1793 - 1814 clasps: | | Total Medals | Max clasps | Vimiera | Corunna | Talavera | Fuentes
d' Onor | Albuhera | Badajos | Salamanca | Vittoria | St.Sabastian | Nivelle | Nive | | 321 | 7 | 2 | 88 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 106 | 217 | 154 | 38 | 38 | 62 | | | Battle Honours: Corunna; Badajos; Salamanca; Vittoria; San Sebastian; Nive; Peninsula. |
| | | | | | | Battle of Waterloo 1815 1st Battalion | Waterloo Medal 1815 | | Number: | 623 | | | Battle Honour: Waterloo |
| | | | | | | Crimean War 1854 - 1856 | Crimea Medal 1854 -56 | | | | Clasp: → | ..none... | | | | | Total Medals | | Number: → | ? | 545* | 30 | 555* | ? | ? | | | *The roll is in poor condition and these numbers are from a contemporary toting annotation.
WO100/26 | | | | | Battle Casualties; | | Action. | Killed | "Wounded" | Dangerously
Wounded | Severely
Wounded | Slightly
Wounded | Missing | | Battle of Alma | - | 10 | - | - | - | 3 | | First bombardment of Sebastopol, first battle of Inkermann and minor actions | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | | The Assault on the Quarries | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | | The First Attack on the Redan | 6 | - | 4 | 11 | 3 | 2 | | 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and final bombardments of Sebastopol and minor actions | 12 | - | 6 | 29 | 51 | - | | | | | | | | | Grand Total: 146 | Men who served in the Crimea also eligible for: | Turkish Crimea Medal 1855 | | | Battle Honours: Alma; Inkermann; Sevastopol. | VCs: 1; Grady |
| | | | Two battalions operational 1858-1949 | | | | | | | | | | Abyssinian War 1867 - 68 1st Battalion | Abyssinian Medal 1867 - 68 | | number: | ? | | | Battle Honour: Abyssinia |
| | | | | | | South Africa: Zulu & Basuto War 1876-79 2nd Battalion | South Africa Medal 1877-79 | | clasp: | ...none.... | | total | | numbers : | 28 | 971 | 999 | | | Battle Honour: South Africa 1879 |
| | | | Became The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) in 1881 (1st and 2nd Battalions) | | | Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902 2nd Battalion ( Dec 1899 - end of the war) Also present a detachment of Mounted Infantry provided by the 1st Battalion | Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with or without the King's South Africa Medal 1901 - 1902 | Frequently encountered clasps: Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; also: | | | | clasp; | | | | | | numbers; | ? | ? | ? | | | | | | | | Officers | NCOs and Men | | KIA & DOW | Wounded | Missing / POW | KIA & DOW | Death from disease | Wounded | Missing / POW | | | | 11 | 9 | 1 | 128 | 40 | 249 | 66 | | | Battle Honours: Relief of Ladysmith; South Africa 1899-1902 |
| | | | | | | The Great War 1914 - 1918 (raised 17 battalions; 10 served overseas:- ) | Generally awarded the British War Medal & Victory Medal, most men overseas prior to 1/1/1916 also a 1914 or 1914-15 Star. | | Battalion → | 1 | 2* | 1/4 | 1/5 | 2/5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | date of first overseas service.
(first theatre red x ) | 23/8
1914 | 22/12
1914 | ?/5
1915 | 15/2
1915 | ?/2
1917 | 6/7
1915 | ?/7
1915 | 27/9
1915 | 4/9
1915 | 3/6
1916 | | France & Flanders | x | x | x | x | x | | x | x | x | x | | Gallipoli | | | | | | x | | | | | | Egypt & Palestine | | x | | | | x | | | | | |
Mesopotamia | | | | | |
x | | | | | | Macedonia | | x | | | | | | | x | | Star
possible ? | 1914 or 1914-15 | x | | | | | | | | | | | or 1914-15 only | | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | | VC? surname/date | Halton
12/10/17 | Christian
18/10/15 | Mayson
31/7/17
Collin
9/4/18
Hewitson
26/4/18 | | | White
7/3/17 | Miller
31/7/17 | Neely
27/9/18 | | | | Died; Extracted from : "Soldiers / Officers Died in the Great War" (consider approximate - in addition at least 160 officers are recorded with 'battalion not shown' or with battalions not shown here) | 1360 | 657 | 626 | 286 | 583 | 410 | 1185 | 193 | 122 | | 832 | | | * The second battalion was in India when war broke out and returned first to the UK | | Regular | Territorial Force | New Armies | Garrison. |
| | | Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19
47 officers and men of the The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) also qualified for this medal. | Battle Honours: Marne 1914; Ypres 1915, 1917; Somme 1916, 1918; Arras 1917, 1918; Messines 1917; Lys; France and Flanders 1914-18. Le Cateau; Retreat from Mons; Aisne 1914; Armentières 1914; Gravenstafel; St Julien; Frezenberg; Bellewaarde; Festubert 1915; Loos; Albert 1916, 1918; Bazentin; Delville Wood; Pozières; Guillemont; Ginchy; Flers-Courcelette; Morval; Le Transloy; Ancre Heights; Ancre 1916; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Arleux; Pilckem; Menin Road; Polygon Wood; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Cambrai 1917, 1918; St Quentin; Estaires; Hazebrouck; Béthune; Bapaume 1918; Drocourt-Quéant; Hindenburg Line; Canal du Nord; Selle; Valenciennes; Sambre; Struma; Doiran 1917, 1918; Suvla; Sari Bair; Egypt 1916; Tigris 1916; Kut al Amara 1917; Baghdad. | VCs: 8; Halton, Christian, Mayson, Colin, Hewitson, White, Miller, Neely. |
| | | | Title became "The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)" , 1921. | | | | | | | | | | WW2 1939 - 1945 | | Battalion → | 1st | 2nd | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | | campaign ↓ | | | | | | | | France and
Belgium 1940.
(Dunkirk ) | | | x | x | x | x | x | | North Africa & Middle East | x | x | | | | x | | | Far East | | | | | | | | | Burma | | x | | | | | | | Sicily / Italy | x | | | | | | | | N.W. Europe | | | (x) | | | | | | | Notes. | | | 234th Infantry brigade 24/10/43 - 16/11/43. Brigade captured on Leros 16/11/43. 8th redesignated the 1st, 30/1/44, and on to Italy with 25th Indian Infantry Bde 14/3/44 | 16th Infantry Brigade 11/6/41-25/9/43. 11th Indian Infantry Brigade. 26/9/43 -15/10/44..... Formed 41 and 46 Chindit Columns. Later
14th Airlanding Brigade ( 1/11/44 - 12/2/45 ) | 126th Infantry Brigade for 1940 Campaign
(converted to 107th RAC 31/10.41... served NW Europe 44-45) | under command GHQ BEF for 1940 Campaign.
evacuated Dunkirk 29/5/40
disbanded in the UK 1944 | under command GHQ BEF for 1940 Campaign.
evacuated Dunkirk
19/3/43 -end of war -
150th Indian Infantry Brigade India | under command GHQ BEF for 1940 Campaign.
evacuated Dunkirk
Malta 13/5/42-10/10/43 Absorbed survivors of the 1st Btn and Redesignated 1st, 30/1/44 | under command GHQ BEF for 1940 Campaign.
evacuated Dunkirk
converted to Artillery in the UK. | WW2 Stars common to the Battalion. (excluding 39-45 star )
Key: A = Africa, P = Pacific, B = Burma, I = Italy, F&G = France and Germany | | | A, I. | A, B | (F&G) | | | A. (see 1st Btn) | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most also entitled to the 1939-45 War Medal and many the Defence Medal | | | Battle Honours: Dunkirk 1940; North-West Europe 1940; Defence of Habbiniya; Merjayun; Tobruk Sortie; Habbiniya (1941); Merjayun (1942); Tobruk Sortie (1942); North Africa 1940-2; Montone (1944); Lamone Bridgehead (1944); Malta 1941-2; Chindits 1944. St Orner-La Bassée; Falluja; Iraq 1941; Jebel Mazar; Syria 1941; Tobruk 1941; Citta di Castello; San Martino Sogliano; Italy 1944-5; Burma 1944. |
| | | | 1st & 2nd reduced via amalgamation to a single battalion (1st) , 1949. | | | | 1st Battalion served Korea Sept 1953 - Oct 54 and hence entitled to the UN Korea Medal | | | | | | | © This website and its contents are copyright. Images are digitally watermarked. © North East Medals, All Rights Reserved |
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Selected Links | The Regimental Museum. (Located in )  | | | | | | | Selected Bibliography; | | | | Author | Title | Publisher | | (Cannon's Historical Records Series). | Historical Record of the Fourth, or The King's Own, Regiment of Foot; containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1680 and of its subsequent Services to 1839. 152 pp. | London: Longman, Orme & Co., 1839. | | Edited by Col. L. I. Cowper from material supplied by the Members of the Regimental Historical Sub-Committee. | The King's Own. The Story of a Royal Regiment. Oxford: University Press, printed for the Regiment, 1939. 2 vols.
Vol. 1. 1680-1814. Vol. 2. 1814-1914. | | | Compiled by Col. J. M. Cowper. | — Vol. 3. 1914-1950. 527 pp. | Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd. 1957 | | Lt.-Col. W. F. A. Wadham and Captain J. Crossley | The Fourth Battalion the King's Own, (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and the Great War. 150 pp. | privately printed, London, 1920. | | Howard Green. | The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (The 4th Regiment of Foot)143 pp. Famous regiment series. | London: Leo Cooper 1972. | | Compiled by Albert Hodgkinson, Capt. & Qrmr., from Battalion Records and his personal Diary. | The King's Own T.F.; being a Record of the 1/5th Battalion The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) in the European War 1914-1918. 185 pp. | Lewes: printed by The Lewes Press Ltd., 1921. | | | The History of the 107 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (King's Own), June 1940—February 1946. 93 pp. | Lengerich, Westphalia: Bischof & Klein, 1946 | | | | | | Additional Bibliography for this Page. | | | | Author/Compiler | Title | Publisher | | Officers of the Regiment. | Unpublished rolls in the care of the National Archives; WO 100/ etc. | - | | | | | | | | | | | Additional bibliography same as Northumberland Fusiliers page | | | |
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