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| The Lincolnshire Regiment |  | 1685 - 1960
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| | | | | | Titles | | pre 1881 | post 1881 | | 10th Regiment of Foot | The Lincolnshire Regiment
( 1st and 2nd Battalions) | | | | Earliest recognised formation: | 1685 as Granville's or the Earl of Bath's Regiment, becoming the 10th Foot in 1751. | | | | Motto: | ? | | | | Regimental Journal: | The Imps. | | | | WWI: | Battle Honours; 58 | Victoria Crosses; 3 | Died; 8800 | | WWII: | Battle Honours; 46 | Victoria Crosses; 1 | Died; ???? | | | | Amalgamated: | 1960; with the Northamptonshire Regiment to form " The 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) " | | |
| | | | | | | Egypt Campaign 1801 | Military General Service Medal. 1793 - 1814 clasps: | | clasp: | | | number: | 59 | | | Two officers also received medals with clasps for later service in the Peninsula War with other regiments: 1). Lieutenant John Duffy with the 43rd Foot received a seven clasp medal; Egypt, Fuentes d' Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle and Nive. 2). Lieutenant G.S. Thwaites received a five clasp medal Egypt, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria and Pyrenees for his service with the 48th Foot. | Battle Honour: A Sphinx superscribed 'Egypt' was permitted to be borne on the colours. (also becoming the primary feature of the cap badge design - see above) | | | A second battalion was raised in 1804 and both battalions had some further service in the Napoleonic wars gaining the battle honour 'Peninsula ' - Second battalion disbanded 1816. |
| | | | | | | The First Sikh War 1845 - 1846. | The Sutlej Medal 1845 -46 | | reverse: | Sobraon | | number: | 778 | | | The Casualties of the10th Foot, 10th February1846. (Assault on the Sikh fortification at Sobraon, on the Sutlej River.) | | Killed in action | Wounded | Died of Wounds | "Died" | | 30 | 50 | 5** | 1 (+5)* | * Five died in May and June and may not be attributable to the action on the 10th February 1846.
** died of wounds generally after 10/2/46 | Battle Honour: Sobraon. |
| | | | | | | The Second Sikh War 1848 - 1849. | The Punjab Medal 1848 -49 | | clasp: | ....none... | | | | numbers: | 27 (minimum) | 843 | 790 | | | Battle Honours: Mooltan; Goojerat; Punjaub. |
| | | | Two battalions of regulars from 1858-1948 | | | India Mutiny 1857 1st Battalion | India Mutiny Medal. 1857 -59 | | clasp: | ....none.... | | | numbers: | 233 | 729 | | | | | Battle Honour: Lucknow. | VCs: 3, |
| | | | | | | | | | | Titled "The Lincolnshire Regiment " in 1881. (1st and 2nd Battalions) | | | | | | | | | | Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902 2nd Battalion (Jan 1900-end of war) (Also companies provided from the 3rd, 4th & 5th Volunteer Battalions) | Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with or without the King's South Africa Medal 1901 - 1902 | Frequently encountered clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; also: | | | | clasp: | | | | | number: | ? | ? | | | | | | | Officers | NCOs and Men | | KIA & DOW | Wounded | Missing / POW | KIA & DOW | Death from disease | Wounded | Missing / POW | | 2nd Battalion | | 1 | 8 | 1 | 34 | 59 | 68 | 101 | | | | | Battle Honours: Paardeberg; South Africa 1899-1902. |
| | | | | | | The Great War 1914 - 1918 (total of 19 battalions; 12 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 | 2/4 | 2/5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12
labour | 1st Garrison | date of first overseas service.
(first theatre red x ) | 14/4
1914 | 6/11
1914 | 2/3
1915 | 2/3
1915 | ?/2
1917 | ?/2
1917 | 12/7
1915 | 14/7
1915 | 10/9
1915 | 9/1
1916 | ?/8
1916 | ?/10
1915 | | France & Flanders | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | x | x | x | | | Gallipoli | | | | | | | x | | | | | | | Egypt & Palestine | | | x | x | | | x | | | | | | | India | | | | | | | | | | | | x | Star
possible ? | 1914 or 1914-15 | x | x | | | | | | | | | | | | or 1914-15 only | | | x | x | | | x | x | x | | | n/a | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | died
Extracted from : "Soldiers / Officers Died in the Great War" (consider approximate - in addition 215 officers are recorded with 'battalion not shown' or with battalions not shown here) | 1545 | 1482 | 758 | 980 | ** | ** | 664 | 935 | 879 | 796 | 38 | 31 | | ** O/SDGW combines figures for 1/4+2/4 and 1/5+2/5 ? | | | * The second battalion was in Bermuda when war declared, arrived France and Flanders (via Nova Scotia and the UK) 6th November 1914. | | | Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19
48 officers and men of the Lincolnshire Regiment also qualified for this medal. | | | | Regular | Territorial Force | New Armies | Garrison. |
| Battle Honours; Mons; Marne 1914; Messines 1914, 1917, 1918; Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917; Neuve Chapelle; Loos; Somme 1916, 1918; Lys; Hindenburg Line; Suvla.Le Cateau; Retreat from Mons; Aisne 1914, 1918; La Bassée 1914; Armentières 1914; Nonne Bosschen; Gravenstafel; St Julien; Frezenberg; Bellewaarde; Aubers; Albert 1916, 1918; Bazentin; Delville Wood; Pozières; Flers-Courcelette; Morval; Thiepval; Ancre 1916, 1918; Arras 1917, 1918; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Arleux; Pilckem; Langemarck 1917; Menin Road; Polygon Wood; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; Cambrai 1917, 1918; St Quentin; Bapaume 1918; Estaires; Bailleul; Kemmel; Amiens; Drocourt Quéant; Epéhy; Canal du Nord; St Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir; Selle; Sambre; France and Flanders 1914-18; Landing at Suvla; Scimitar Hill; Gallipoli 1915; Egypt 1916. | VCs; 3, |
| | | | | | | Jewish / Arab Unrest, Palestine 1936 - 39 2nd Battalion (1936) | General Service Medal 1918 - 62 | | clasp: | | | number: | ? | | | | | |
| | | | | | | WW2 1939 - 1945 four battalions with overseas service; | | Battalion → | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 6th | | campaign ↓ | | | | | | Norway 1940 | | | x | | France and
Belgium 1940.
(Dunkirk ) | | x | | x | | North Africa & Middle East | | | | x | | Burma | x | | | | | Sicily / Italy | | | | x | | N.W. Europe | | x | x | | | | Notes. | | | with the 71st Ind. Infantry Brigade for the Burma Campaign. | 9th Infantry Brigade
3/9/39 - 31/8/45
D-Day Landers. | 146th Infantry Brigade
3/9/39-19/8/42 & 9/9/42-20/10/44. & 31/10/44-31/8/44
landed NW Europe D Day +4 | 138th Infantry Brigade
3/9/39- 31/8/45 | | | | | | | WW2 Stars common to the Battalion. (excluding the 39-45 star )
Key: A = Africa, P = Pacific, B = Burma, I = Italy, F&G = France and Germany | | | B | F&G | F&G | A, I. | | | | | | | | | Most also entitled to the 1939-45 War Medal and many the Defence Medal | | | Battle Honours; Dunkirk 1940; Normandy Landing; Fontenay le Pesnil; Antwerp–Turnhout Canal; Rhineland; North Africa 1943; Salerno; Gothic Line; Ngadyedauk Pass; Burma 1943-5; Vist; Norway 1940; Cambes; Defence of Rauray; Caen; Orne; Bourguébus Ridge; Troarn; Nederrijn; Le Havre; Venraij; Venlo Pocket; Hochwald; Lingen; Bremen; Arnhem 1945; North-West Europe 1940, 1944-5; Sedjenane I; Mine de Sedjenane; Argoub Sellah; Vietri Pass; Capture of Naples; Cava di Tirreni; Volturno Crossing; Garigliano Crossing; Monte Tuga; Monte Gridolfo; Gemmano Ridge; Lamone Crossing; San Marino; Italy 1943-5; Donbaik; Point 201 (Arakan); North Arakan; Buthidaung; Ramree. | VCs; 1 | Granted the "Royal" 1946 |
| | | | | | | Re-establishment of order post WW2, South East Asia 1945 -46 1st Battalion | General Service Medal 1918 - 62 | | clasp: | | | number: | ? | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | 1st & 2nd reduced via amalgamation to a single battalion (1st) , 1948 | | | The Malaya Emergency: Operations against Communist insurgents. 1948-60 1st Battalion (1955-58) | General Service Medal 1918 - 62 | | clasp: | | | number: | ? | | |
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Selected Links | The Regimental Museum. (Located in ) |  | | | | | Selected Bibliography; | | | | Author | Title | Publisher | | Richard Cannon Esq | Historical Record of The Tenth, or The North Lincolnshire, Regiment of Foot, containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent Services to 1847. 84 pp. | Adjutant-General's Office, Horse Guards. London: Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1847. | | Albert Lee. | The History of the Tenth Foot (The Lincolnshire Regiment). 2 vols. | Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1911 | | Edited by Major-Gen. C. R. Simpson, Colonel of the Regiment. With a Foreword by the Earl of Yarborough | The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment, 1914-1918. Compiled from Diaries, Despatches, Officers' Notes and other sources. . Illustrated by Charles Simpson. 511 pp. | London: The Medici Society Ltd., 1931 | | Major L. C. Gates. Edited by Major-Gen. J. A. A. Griffin, Colonel of the Regiment. | The History of the Tenth Foot, 1919-1915. Compiled from War Diaries, Officers' Narratives and other sources 355 pp. | Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1953 | | | A Short History of the Lincolnshire Regiment (The 10th Foot). 72 pp., | Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1926. | | | A Short History of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment. . 98 pp. | Goslar: Germany: Heinrich Winkelhagen, 1954 | | Compiled by Major L. C. Gates from documents supplied by Lieut.-Col. C. A. C. Sinker and Lieut.-Col. D. P. St. C. Rissier | The History of the First Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment in India, Arakan, Burma and Sumatra, September 1939 to October 1946. 75 pp. | Lincoln: Keyworth & Sons, printers, 1949 | | | Second Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment. On Special Service in Malta and Palestine, 19th September, 1935-20th December, 1936, 52 pp., | Printed by N.A.A.F.I., 1937 | | | The History of the Second Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment in North-West Europe. Hermanville-sur-Mer 6 June 1944 to Lengerich 8 May, 1945. 79 pp. | [printed in Germany] | | H. R. Tweed. | A History of the Horncastle Detachment, 4th Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment (Territorial Army), from the raising of the original Volunteer Corps in 1803 to the present time. . 50 pp. | Horncastle: W. K. Morton & Sons, 1936 | | Col. T. E. Sandall | A History of the 5th Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment. With a Chapter on its Reconstitution by Major G. H. Teal! (Adjutant). 222 pp., | Oxford Basil Blackwell,1922. | | Lt.-Col. J. P. W. Jamie | The 177th Brigade, 1914-1918. 73 pp.,
[2/4th, 2/5th Bns. The Lincolnshire Regt.]. | Leicester: printed by W. Thornley & Sons, 1931. | | | The History of The Lincolnshire Regiment, 1914-1918. Edited by Major-Gen. C. R. Simpson. [Including the Territorial Battns.]. London: The Medici Society Ltd., 1931. 94" | | | Major L. C. Gates | The History of the Tenth Foot, 1919-1950. ( includes a chapter on the Territorial Battalions.) | Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd 1953 | | Edited by Lt.-Col A. H. Wenham. | The History of the Sixth Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment. 54 pp. | Leoben, Austria: composed and published by Lincoln Unit Printers and printed by Obersteirische Printing Press, 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. | - | | | casualty rolls for the 1st Sikh war 1846 | | | | | | | | Additional bibliography same as Northumberland Fusiliers page | | | |
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