Medals of the Regiments:
The Loyal North Lancashire
 Regiment

 
 
The late Victorian cap badge of the Regiment The 1921-1953 "King's Crown" version of the cap badge showing
 the new title introduced 1921
Kipling and King 663 Kipling and King 665

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The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

1741 - 1970
 
 
Titles
pre 1881 post 1881
47th (the Lancashire) Regiment of Foot 1st Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) 2nd Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
   
 
Earliest recognised formation: 47th: 1741, when raised as Sir John Mordaunt's Regiment of Foot, becoming the 47th Regiment of Foot in 1751.
81st: 1793, when raised as the 81st Regiment of Foot.
 
Motto: Loyauté M'Oblige = Loyalty Binds Me
 
Regimental Journal:  The Lancashire Lad
 
WWI: Battle Honours; 68 Victoria Crosses; 3 Died; 7590
WWII:    Battle Honours;  21 Victoria Crosses; 1 Died;  ???
 
Amalgamated: 1970, with the  The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) to form The Queen's Lancashire Regiment
 
 
A 2nd Battalion of both the 47th and 81st was operational 1803-14 and 1803-1816 respectively.
 

Battle of Maida 1806  (1st Battalion, 81st Regiment) and the Peninsula War 1808 - 1814   (2nd Battalion, both Regiments)

Military General Service Medal 1793 - 1814

 
2nd Battalion 47th Regiment*
 
clasp:

Barrosa

Vittoria

St Sebastian

Nivelle

Nive

Total Medals Max clasps
number: 5190 9029 41108 4
 
81st Regiment*
  1st Btn. 2nd Btn.  
clasp:

Maida

Corunna

 
number: 11998  
 

*a small number of officers and men additionally received clasps for service elsewhere.

 

Battle Honours:  Maida, Corunna; (81st) .   Tarifa, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nive; (47th).  Peninsula; (both).

 
 
 

First Anglo-Burmese War 1824-1826  47th Regiment

Army of India Medal 1799 - 1826

clasp:

Ava

number: 175
 

Battle Honour: Ava

 
 
 

Crimean War  1854 - 1856  47th Regiment

Crimea Medal 1854 -56

 
Clasp: →..none...

Alma

Balaklava

Inkermann

Sebastopol

Total Medals 
Number: ?763 41679 >1190 ?1293 ? 
 

 

 

Battle Casualties;

Action.KilledDied of Wounds'Wounded'Dangerously
Wounded
Severely
Wounded
Slightly
Wounded
MissingTotal
The Battle of the Alma 4- 64- -- -68
First bombardment of Sebastopol, first battle of Inkermann and minor actions 4  4- 16 -15
The Battle of Inkermann 20- -3 2915 269
The Assault on the Quarries 261* -7 2628 391
First Attack on the Redan -- -1 31 -5
Final Attack on the Redan 3- -1 620 -30
2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th Bombardments of Sebastopol and Minor Actions. 25- -7 4752 -131
Magazine explosion at the French Siege Train -- -1 -4 -5

Grand Total:     

414

*3025 Private John Reagan = "Wounded Mortally"

 

 

Men who served in the Crimea also eligible for:

Turkish Crimea Medal 1855

 


VCs: 1   McDermond   VC page

 
 

Battle Honours:  Alma; Inkermann Sevastopol.

 
 
 

Indian Mutiny 1857-59  81st Regiment

India Mutiny Medal. 1857 -59

 
clasp:..none...
number: 967
 

 

 
 
 

Sittana Field Force Operations 1858   81st Regiment

India General Service Medal 1854 - 95

clasp:
North West Frontier
number : 205
 
 
 
 

Fenian Raids, Canada 1866-1870  47th Regiment

Canada General Service Medal 1866-70

clasp:

Fenian Raid 1866

number: 119
 
 
 
 
 

Second Afghan War 1878-80 81st Regiment

Afghanistan Medal 1878  -1880

clasp:...none...
Ali Musjid
Kabul
Kandahar
Total medals
number: 101581 1*1** 683
 
 

General Roberts' March, Kabul to Kandahar 9-31 August 1880 

Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880

 
number: 1**
 

*582 Pte.  R. J.  Bourne.  ** 88 Pte. John Moore. (Moore with a two clasp Afghan medal)

 

Battle Honours: Ali Masjid, Afghanistan 1878-9

 
1881: The Regiments now become the 1st and 2nd Battalions, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
 

Anglo - Boer War 1899 - 1902.  1st Battalion: in theatre entire war, with a detachment serving as mounted infantry. 3rd Battalion (late Royal Lancashire Militia), present in the Mediterranean for Garrison duty 1900, also served in South Africa 1901-2 providing volunteer service companies.

Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with or without the King's South Africa Medal 1901 - 1902

Common clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; also:

 
clasp:
Defence of Kimberley

Belmont

Modder River

Paardeberg

Wittebergen

 
number: ? ? ? ? ?  
             
 

 

Casualties:

Officers NCOs and Men
KIA & DOW/ DOD Wounded Missing / POW KIA & DOW Death from disease Wounded Missing / POW
1st Battalion
4 / 3 8 2 27 57 107 110
 

Battle Honour: Defence of Kimberley,  South Africa 1899-1902  3rd Battalion: South Africa 1901-02

 
 
 

Garrison & Guard Duty, ( Boer prisoners of war) Gibraltar and Malta etc., 1899 - 1902  3rd Battalion (late Royal Lancashire Militia)

Queen's Mediterranean Medal 1899 -1902

 
Number: ?
 

Battle Honour: Mediterranean 1900-01.

 
 
 

The Great War 1914 - 1918  ( 21 battalions; 13 served overseas:- )

Generally awarded the British War Medal & Victory Medal, men overseas prior to 1/1/1916 also a 1914 or 1914-15 Star.

Battalion → 1  2* 1/4 1/5 2/4 2/5 4/5** 6 7 8 9 10 1/12
Pioneers
15
date of first overseas service.
 (first theatre red x )
13/8
1914
3/11
1914
4/5
1915
13/2
1915
8/2
1917
9/2
1917
12/2
1917
4/8
1915
17/7
1915
6/9
1915
26/9
1915
1/8
1915
22/6
1916
5/7
1918
France & Flanders x x x x x x x   x x x x x x
Gallipoli               x
(via Mudros)
           
Egypt & Palestine   x           x         x  
Mesopotamia              x            
Macedonia                         x  
German East Africa   x                        
India                            
Star
possible ?
1914 or 1914-15 x                          
or 1914-15 only   x x x       x x x x x    
VCs at a glance:                      
died
Extracted from : "Soldiers / Officers Died in the Great War" (consider approximate - in addition the regiment as a whole lost an additional  121 officers who are recorded with 'battalion not shown'  or with battalions not shown here, or who we have not yet allocated a battalion.)
1551 312 926 676 365 198 138 785 427 437 939 595 59 7
 
* In India at the start, sent to German East Africa.
** Absorbed by the 1/5th, 4/2/1915
 
Regular Territorial Force New Armies Garrison.

 

Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19
8 officers and 154 men of The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment also qualified for this medal.

 


VCs: 3; Kenny, Wilkinson,  Jones.   VC page

 

Battle Honours:Mons; Aisne 1914, 1918; Ypres 1914, 1917, 1918; Somme 1916," 1918; Lys; Hindenburg Line; Suvla; Gaza; Baghdad; Kilimanjaro.  Retreat from Mons; Marne 1914, 1918; Langemarck 1914; Gheluvelt; Nonne Bosschen; Givenchy 1914; Aubers; Festubert 1915; Loos; Albert 1916; Bazentin; Pozières; Guillemont; Ginchy; Flers-Courcelette; Morval; Ancre Heights; Ancre 1916; Arras 1917, 1918; Scarpe 1917; Arleux; Messines 1917; Pilckem; Menin Road; Polygon Wood; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; Cambrai 1917, 1918; St Quentin; Bapaume 1918; Estaires; Bailleul; Kemmel; Béthune; Scherpenberg; Soissonnais-Ourcq; Drocourt-Quéant; Epéhy; Canal du Nord; St Quentin Canal; Courtrai; Selle; Sambre; France and Flanders 1914-18; Doiran 1917; Macedonia 1917; Sari Bair; Gallipoli 1915; Egypt 1916; Nebi Samwil; Jerusalem; Jaffa; Tell'Asur; Palestine 1917-18; Tigris 1916; Kut al Amara 1917; Mesopotamia 1916-18; East Africa 1914-16.

 
1921: Regiment now re-titled -  "The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)"
 

Jewish / Arab unrest, Palestine 1936 - 39 1st Battalion

General Service Medal 1918 -62

clasp:

Palestine

numbers: ?
 
 
 
 
 

WW2 1939 - 1945  

Battalion → 1st 2nd 5th
campaign ↓      
France and Belgium 1940.
(Dunkirk )
    x
North Africa & Middle East x    
Far East   x  
Burma      
Sicily / Italy x x  
N.W. Europe      
 

Notes.

  2nd Infantry Brigade for the duration. Served North Africa, Italy, Palestine and Syria. 1st Malaya Infantry Brigade:  Captured Singapore Island by the Japanese 15/2/1942. Reformed in the UK. Served in the closing stages of the Italy campaign. Motor Cycle Battalion. Served France and Belgium 1940 with 20th Independent Infantry Brigade (Guards). (For one day at Boulogne 
22/5/40-23/5/40, then withdrawn back to 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. P, I -
       
 


VCs: 1   Sandys-Clarke    VC page

 

Most also entitled to the 1939-45 War Medal and many the Defence Medal

 

Battle Honours: Dunkirk 1940; Djebel Kess Kiss; Gueriat el Atach Ridge; North Africa 1943; Anzio; Fiesole; Monte Grande; Italy 1944-5; Johore; Singapore Island.
 North-West Europe 1940; Banana Ridge; Medjez Plain; Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943 I; Gab Gab Gap; Rome; Gothic Line; Monte Gamberaldi; Monte Ceco; Batu Pahar; Malaya 1941-2.

 
 
 

Jewish / Arab Unrest,  Palestine 1945 - 48 1st  Battalion

General Service Medal 1918 -62

clasp:
Palestine 1945-48
number:?
 
 
 
1948: Regulars reduced to a single battalion (the 1st)
 

The Malaya Emergency: Operations against Communist insurgents. 1948-60 1st Battalion (1957)

General Service Medal 1918 - 62

clasp:

Malaya

number:?
 
 
 
 
 

Aden 1964 - 67  'C' Company, 1st Battalion only (1966)  (Rest of the Battalion remained in Malta.)

General Service Medal 1962-2007

clasp:
South Arabia
numbers: ?
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Selected Links

The Regimental Museum. (Located in )

 
 
 

Selected Bibliography;

 
Author Title Publisher
Major H. G. Purdon An Historical Sketch of the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment and of the Campaigns through which they passed. 227 pp. Preston: The Guardian Printing Works, 1907
S. Rogers Historical Record of The Eighty-First Regiment, or Loyal Lincoln Volunteers; containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1793 and of its subsequent Services to 1872.  256 pp. Gibraltar: printed by the Twenty-Eighth Regimental Press, 1872.
Col. H. C. Wylly The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.  (2 vols.) London: The Royal United Services Institution, 1933
Capt. C. G. T. Dean The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), 1919-1953.   329 pp. Preston: Regimental Headquarters, 1955
 Frank Allen The Loyals in Malaya; the First Battalion The Loyal Regiment (N.L) Malaya, Dec. 1958.  24 pp. Bolton: Tillotsons Newspapers Ltd., 1959
? The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) Roll of Honour, 1939-1945. 20 pp. Preston: [printed by T. Snape & Co. Ltd.], 1948.
? The Loyal Regiment, North Lancashire (47th/81st Regiment).  60 pp. London: Malcolm Page, n.d. [c. 1954],
? 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. South African War 1899-1902. . 142 pp. Devonport: Swiss and Co., 1903
Michael Langley. The Loyal Regiment. (North Lancashire).  118 pp. London: Leo Cooper 1975
     

 

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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