1/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army

• Nationality: UK
• Service: British Army
• Type: Unit
  • Infantry Battalion
• Regular/Territorial: Territorial

Name and Organisation Changes

• 1 April 1908: formed as 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
• August/September 1914? formed duplicate battalion 2/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
• January 1915? renamed 1/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
• 30 January 1918: disbanded
  • Headquarters and about one third of personnel merged with 2/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry to form new 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
  • about one third absorbed by 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
  • about one third absorbed by 2/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry

Locations

Theatres

(as parent brigade and division)

Parents

Administrative

• Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry

Tactical

• 138th Infantry Brigade

Children

(similar to 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry)

Sources

Official Sources

War Diaries

• WO 95/2691/1 (images can be downloaded from TNA for a fee)
  • Images on Flickr (free for non-commercial use but some images have parts of the page missing)

Other Official Documents

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

Published Histories

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