The East Lancashire Regiment

Egypt Campaign 1801 (1st Battalion, 30th), The Capture of Java (1st Battalion, 59th )  and the Peninsula War 1808 - 1814   (2nd Battalions, both Regiments)

Military General Service Medal.  1793 - 1814

* Lt. Marlborough Seymour, clasp with the Commisariat Dept.

Battle Honours: Java, Badajos, Salamanca, St. Sebastian, Nive, Peninsula;  and a Sphinx superscribed Egypt was permitted to be borne on the colours

Battle of Waterloo 1815  both regiments present.

Waterloo Medal 1815 (names on roll, includes died, missing etc)

 2nd Battalion, 30th Regiment.

Casualties 16th, 17th & 18th June 1815 (extracted London Gazette 8/7/1815 & "Medals of the British Army and  how they were won" T. Carter 1861*)

Officers: 1 Major, 1 Captain, 2 Lieutenants and 2 Coronets Killed. 1 Lt. Colonel, 2 Majors, 1 Captain, 9 Lieutenants, and 1 Staff wounded.

*Sergeants, Trumpeters, Drummers, Farriers and Rank and File:

2nd Battalion, 59th Regiment.

2/59th not deployed directly in the Waterloo battle -  positioned at Hal to prevent any potential surprise attack in the direction of Brussels & the right flank. [4th Division (Collville) 6th British Brigade (Johnstone) with 2/35th, 54th and the 1/91st ]

Casualties:  2 other ranks wounded on the 26th June in the assault and taking of Cambray.

*Carter's figures are in turn extracted from the return prepared by the Adjutant-Generals office, 13th April 1816.

Battle Honour;  Waterloo. (30th Regt)

Revolt of the Rajah of Bhurtpore (1826)  59th Regiment

Army of India Medal 1799 - 1826

Battle Honour: Bhurtpore

Crimean War  1854 - 1856  30th Regiment

Crimea Medal 1854 -56

Battle Casualties;

Grand Total:     

* Lt and Adj. J. Forbes, and 3554 Private John Desmond = "wounded mortally"

Men who served in the Crimea also eligible for:

Turkish Crimea Medal 1855

VCs: 1  Walker    see VC page

Battle Honours:  Alma; Inkermann Sevastopol.

Second China War 1856-60 59th Regiment

Second China War Medal 1856-60

Battle Honour: Canton

Fenian Raids, Canada 1866-1870  30th Regiment

Canada General Service Medal 1866-70

*as a two clasp medal

Second Afghan War 1878-80 59th Regiment

Afghanistan Medal 1878  -1880

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

Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880

*Lt's H.A. Boulderson and C. Hodgkinson, 2/Lt W.G. Small, and 6 Privates.

VCs: 1  Sartorius   see VC page

Battle Honours: Ahmed Khel

Relief of Chitral 1895  1st Battalion

India Medal 1895

Battle Honour: Chitral

Anglo - Boer War 1899 - 1902.  1st Battalion, February 1900 to end of the War

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:

Casualties:

Battle Honour: South Africa 1900-1902

The Great War 1914 - 1918  ( 18 battalions; 12 served overseas:- )

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

*2nd Battalion in South Africa at the start, moved to the UK.       

** Formed in France, "Garrison" title later dropped.

Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19
 3 officers and 18 men of the East Lancashire Regiment also qualified for this medal.

VCs: 4;      Bent    Smith   Young    Horsfall   see VC page

Battle Honours:  Retreat from Mons; Marne 1914; Aisne 1914, 1918; Neuve Chapelle; Ypres 1915, 1917, 1918; Somme 1916, 1918; Arras 1917, 1918; Doiran 1917, 1918; Helles; Kut al Amara 1917.  Le Cateau; Armentières 1914; St Julien; Frezenberg; Bellewaarde; Aubers; Albert 1916, 1918; Bazentin; Pozières; Le Transloy; Ancre Heights; Ancre 1916, 1918; Vimy 1917; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Arleux; Oppy; Messines 1917; Pilckem; Langemarck 1917; Menin Road; Polygon Wood; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; St Quentin; Bapaume 1918; Rosières; Villers Bretonneux; Lys; Estaires; Hazebrouck; Bailleul; Kemmel; Hindenburg Line; Canal du Nord; Cambrai 1918; Selle; Valenciennes; Sambre; France and Flanders 1914-18; Kosturino; Macedonia 1915-18; Krithia; Suvla; Sari Bair; Gallipoli 1915; Rumani; Egypt 1915-17; Tigris 1916; Baghdad; Mesopotamia 1916-17.

WW2 1939 - 1945  

Notes.

WW2 Stars common to the Battalion. (excluding 39-45 star )
 Key: A = Africa, P = Pacific, B =  Burma, I = Italy,  F&G = France and Germany

VCs: 1  Andrews   see VC page

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

Battle Honours: Dunkirk 1940; Falaise; Lower Maas; Ourthe; Reichswald; Weeze; Aller; Madagascar; Pinwe; Burma 1944-5.  Defence of Escaut; Caen; Nederrijn; Rhineland; Rhine; Ibbenburen; North-West Europe 1940, 1944-5; North Arakan.