Lancashire Regiment

Active| 1 July 1958 – 25 March 1970
Country|  United Kingdom
Branch|  British Army
Type| Line infantry
Size| One regular battalion Two territorial battalions
Part of| Lancastrian Brigade King's Division
Engagements| Aden Emergency

Military unit

The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) was an infantry regiment of the British Army that had a very short existence.

## History

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The regiment was formed, as a consequence of defence cuts instigated by the 1957 Defence White Paper, by the amalgamation of the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment and the 1st Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) on 1 July 1958.[1]

The regiment was first based in Hong Kong where both of its predecessor regiments had been based when they amalgamated.[1] In 1961 the regiment arrived in Hilden, West Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine.[1] Shortly after Swaziland's first-ever elections in 1964, the regiment arrived in there to maintain order.[1] The regiment remained in that country until early the following year when it returned to Britain, being based in Catterick.[1]

In 1967 the Lancashires arrived in Aden in the Middle East a number of months before Aden gained independence from the British Empire.[1] In 1968 the regiment was posted to the garrison in Malta.[1] The following year the Lancashires again returned home to the United Kingdom.[1]

On 25 March 1970, after a relatively brief existence, the regiment was amalgamated with the 1st Battalion, Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), to form the 1st Battalion, Queen's Lancashire Regiment.[2]

## Regimental museum

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The Lancashire Infantry Museum is based at Fulwood Barracks in Preston.[3]

## Alliances

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Alliances were as follows:[4]

*  Canada The Princess of Wales' Own Regiment (1958-1970)
*  Canada The West Nova Scotia Regiment (1958-1970)
*  Australia 40th Infantry Battalion (The Derwent Regiment) (1958-1960)
*  Australia The Royal Tasmania Regiment (1967-1970)
*  New Zealand The Hawke's Bay Regiment
*  Pakistan 8th Battalion, The Punjab Regiment

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Lancashire Regiment". British Army units 1945 on. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
2. ^ "Queen's Lancashire Regiment". Lancashire Infantry Museum. Archived from the original on 7 November 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
3. ^ "Official site". Lancashire Infantry Museum. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
4. ^ "The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 13 January 2008. Retrieved 9 September 2016.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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Predecessors|

| 1st generation|

* Border Regiment (1881–1959)
* East Lancashire Regiment (1881–1958)
* King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (1680–1959)
* Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (1881–1970)
* Manchester Regiment (1881–1958)
* South Lancashire Regiment (1881–1958)
* 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot (1702–1881)
* 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot (1755–1881)
* King's Regiment (Liverpool) (1685–1958)
* 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot (1744–1881)
* 96th Regiment of Foot (1798–1881)
* 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot (1702–1881)
* 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot (1755–1881)
* 40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot (1717–1881)
* 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) (1793–1881)
* 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot (1741–1881)
* 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) (1793–1881)

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2nd generation|

* King's Own Royal Border Regiment (1959–2006)
* King's Regiment (1958–2006)
* Lancashire Regiment (1958–1970)
* Queen's Lancashire Regiment (1970–2006)

Victoria Cross
recipients|

* Thomas Grady
* Harry Christian
* James Miller
* Jack White
* Tom Fletcher Mayson
* Albert Halton
* Joseph Henry Collin
* James Hewitson
* Thomas Neely
* William Robert Fontaine Addison
* Harry Hampton
* Henry James Knight
* William Edward Heaton
* Joseph Harcourt Tombs
* Edward Felix Baxter
* Arthur Herbert Procter
* David Jones
* Oswald Reid
* Jack Thomas Counter
* James Pitts
* Robert Scott
* James Leach
* John Hogan
* Issy Smith
* William Forshaw
* George Stringer
* George Evans
* Charles Harry Coverdale
* Walter Mills
* Wilfrith Elstob
* Alfred Robert Wilkinson
* James Kirk
* George Stuart Henderson
* John McDermond
* Mark Walker
* John Lucas
* Euston Sartorius
* Spencer Bent
* Henry Edward Kenny
* William Young
* Alfred Victor Smith
* Richard Basil Brandram Jones
* Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson
* Gabriel Coury
* John Readitt
* William Ratcliffe
* John Thomas Davies
* Basil Horsfall
* Marcus Ervine-Andrews
* Willward Alexander Sandys-Clarke

See also|

* King's Division
* King's and Cheshire Regiment
* Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers
* Lancashire Militia

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