1/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army

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1/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army
Years active:	1/4/1908 – 30/1/1918
Country:	United Kingdom
Service:	British Army
Branch:	Territorial Force
Type:	Infantry
Specific type:	Infantry battalion
Full size:	1,000
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Created:	1/4/1908.
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Name1:	4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Name1 Start:	1/4/1908
Name1 End:	1915
Reason for change:	Renumbering of territorial battalions.
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Name2:	1/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Name2 Start:	1915
Name2 End:	30/1/1918
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Disbanded:	30/1/1918.
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For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war.

Command structure
Relationship type:	Administrative
Parent unit:	Lincolnshire Regiment, UK
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Start date:	1/4/1908
End date:	30/1/1918
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Command structure
Relationship type:	Tactical
Parent unit:	138th Infantry Brigade, UK
Parent level:	Brigade
Start date:	01/04/1908
End date:	30/01/1918
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Theatre of war
Theatre name:	France, Belgium and Germany
Date entered:	01/03/1915
Date left:	30/01/1918
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Battalion disbanded 30 January 1918 and personnel reallocated as follows:

• Headquarters and about one third of personnel merged with 2/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, UK to form new 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, UK
• about one third absorbed by 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, UK
• about one third absorbed by 2/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, UK

Official sources

Unit war diaries

• Template:WarDiaryTNA
• Images on Flickr (free for non-commercial use but some images have parts of the page missing)

Unit histories

• Charles Rudyard Simpson, The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment, 1914-1918 (London, Medici Society, 1931).

Other official documents

• Gallantry medal citations, Lincolnshire Regiment Collection, Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln.

References

This page contains data imported from the UK National Archives Discovery catalogue, licensed under Open Government Licence v2.0.