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Revision as of 04:19, 7 November 2014
- Nationality: UK
- Service: British Army
- Type: Unit
- Regular/Territorial: Territorial
Contents
Name and Organisation Changes
- 1 April 1908: formed as 5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
- 31 August 1914: formed duplicate battalion 2/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
- 1 January 1915: merged 8 companies into 4
- January 1915? renamed 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
- 30 January 1918: absorbed part of 1/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- July 1919: disembodied
Parents
Administrative
- Lincolnshire Regiment: 1908-1919
Tactical
- 138th Infantry Brigade: 1908-1919
Children
- Battalion Headquarters
- Transport Section
- Machine Gun Section (transferred to 138th Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps, 22 February 1916)
- Lewis Gun Section (22 February 1916 to 31 May 1916)
- Companies before 1 January 1915:
- A Company
- B Company
- C Company
- D Company
- E Company
- F Company
- G Company
- H Company
- Companies after 1 January 1915 (not the same as previous A-D Companies):
- A Company
- B Company
- C Company
- D Company
Locations
Theatres
- Home: 1 April 1908-27 February 1915
- France and Flanders: 28 February 1915-8 January 1916
- Egypt: 14 January 1916-3 February 1916
- France and Flanders: 9 February 1916-25 July 1919
Battles
(These are the specific dates this unit took part in these battles, not necessarily dates of whole battle.)
- Loos: 13 October 1915
- The Somme: 1 July 1916
- Hindenburg Line: 29 September 1918
Commanding Officers
(This information might be outside the scope of this project but nowhere else is currently collecting and organising it by unit.)
- Colonel G.B. Walker (1 April 1908 to May 1912)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Sandall (May 1912 to 13 Oct 1915)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Thuillier Westmorland (Nov 1915 to 1 April 1916)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Sandall (April 1916 to May 1917)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Archibald Waring (May 1917 to 30 June 1918)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Graham Wilson (30 June 1918 to July 1919)
Sources
Personal Narratives
- William Wenham's letters relating to his capture while serving with the battalion and subsequent imprisonment in Germany:
Related Media
Official Sources
War Diaries
- WO 95/2691/2 (images can be downloaded from TNA for a fee)
- Images at Flickr free for non-commercial use
Other Official Documents
- Gallantry medal citations, Lincolnshire Regiment Collection, Lincolnshire Archives
Published Histories
- Thomas Edward Sandall, A History of the 5th Battalion the Lincolnshire Regiment (Oxford, Blackwell, 1922).
- Charles Rudyard Simpson, The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment, 1914-1918 (London, Medici Society, 1931).
Other Publications
(This would cover published books and articles other than official histories, websites about the unit, and anything else not covered by above sections.)