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Revision as of 11:37, 20 February 2015
- Nationality: UK
- Service: British Army
- Type: Admin
- Infantry Regiment
- British Infantry Regiment Number: 10
(British infantry regiments were known by numbers before 1881. After this date they were given names, and the numbers ceased to be part of their official title, but it can still be useful to know them for some WW1 era records.)
Contents
[hide]Name and Organisation Changes
(These dates are all well outside the scope of this project. There needs to be quick and standardised way of indicating that something existed before and/or after the First World War period.)
- 1881: formed from 10th Regiment of Foot, renamed Lincolnshire Regiment
- 1946: renamed Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
- 1960: merged into Royal Anglian Regiment
Parents
Children
(Compiled from The Long Long Trail: Lincolnshire Regiment and WO 95)
- 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 1/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 2/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 3/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 2/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 3/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 7th (Service) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 8th (Service) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 9th (Reserve) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 10th (Service) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 11th (Reserve) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 12th (Labour) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 13th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 1st Garrison Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
Service Numbers
(Soldiers' service numbers were allocated at regiment level or below. Understanding service number sequences can give vital clues in reconstructing a soldier's career, especially when his service record has been destroyed, as 2/3 of British ones have.)
Regimental Archives and Museums
- Lincolnshire Regiment Museum, Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Lincoln
- Lincolnshire Regiment Collection, Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln
- Royal Anglian Regiment Museum, Duxford
Sources
Personal Narratives
(See child battalions)
Related Media
Official Sources
War Diaries
(None: admin regiments didn't have them.)
Other Official Documents
Published Histories
- Charles Rudyard Simpson, The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment, 1914-1918 (London, Medici Society, 1931).
Other Publications
- The Royal Anglian & Royal Lincolnshire Regimental Association website
- John Benson, The Lincolns: The Tenth Foot 1685-1960 in pictures (Boston, Richard Kay, 2003).
- David George Nalson, The Poachers: The History of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment 1685-1969 (Lincoln, Trustees of the Royal Lincolnshire Regimental Museum, 2003).