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The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was raised on June 20, 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel, John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath PC was an English royalist statesman, whose highest position was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland....

. In 1751 it was numbered like most other Army regiments and named the 10 Regiment of Foot. After the Childers Reforms

Childers Reforms

The Childers Reforms restructured the infantry regiments of the British army. The reforms were undertaken by Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers in 1881, and were a continuation of the earlier Cardwell reforms....

of 1881 it became the Lincolnshire Regiment after the county where it had been recruiting since 1781. After the Second World War it was honoured with the name Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, before being amalgamated in 1960.

Eighteenth century

The regiment would see action during the War of the Grand Alliance

War of the Grand Alliance

The Nine Years' War – often called the War of the Grand Alliance, the War of the Palatine Succession, or the War of the League of Augsburg – was a major war of the late 17th century fought between King Louis XIV of France, and a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch...

, the War of the League of Augsburg and the War of the Spanish Succession

War of the Spanish Succession

The War of the Spanish Succession was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch. As France and Spain were among the most powerful states of Europe, such a unification would have...

at the Battle of Blenheim

Battle of Blenheim

The Battle of Blenheim , fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis XIV of France sought to knock Emperor Leopold out of the war by seizing Vienna, the Habsburg capital, and gain a favourable peace settlement...

, Battle of Ramillies

Battle of Ramillies

The Battle of Ramillies , fought on 23 May 1706, was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession. For the Grand Alliance – Austria, England, and the Dutch Republic – the battle had followed an indecisive campaign against the Bourbon armies of King Louis XIV of France in 1705...

and the Battle of Malplaquet

Battle of Malplaquet

The Battle of Malplaquet, fought on 11 September 1709, was one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, which opposed the Bourbons of France and Spain against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, Great Britain, the United Provinces and the Kingdom of...

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In 1751 the regiment was given the title of the 10th Regiment of Foot

10th Regiment of Foot

The 10th Regiment of Foot was raised on 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath...

, as all British regiment were given numbers instead of Colonel's name for identification. The regiment would next see action during the American War of Independence at the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill

Battle of Bunker Hill

The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War...

, the New York Campaign, the Battle of Germantown

Battle of Germantown

The Battle of Germantown, a battle in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War, was fought on October 4, 1777, at Germantown, Pennsylvania between the British army led by Sir William Howe and the American army under George Washington...

, the Battle of Monmouth

Battle of Monmouth

The Battle of Monmouth was an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The Continental Army under General George Washington attacked the rear of the British Army column commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton as they left Monmouth Court...

and the Battle of Rhode Island

Battle of Rhode Island

The Battle of Rhode Island, also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill and the Siege of Newport, took place on August 29, 1778. Continental Army and militia forces under the command of General John Sullivan were withdrawing to the northern part of Aquidneck Island after abandoning their siege of...

. In 1778 the 10th returned home to England after 19 years service overseas. In 1781 the regiment was linked to the County of Lincolnshire for recruiting. During the French Revolutionary Wars

French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states...

and the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

, the 10th Regiment would see service in Egypt and in Portugal and Spain in the Peninsular War

Peninsular War

The Peninsular War was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French and Spanish armies crossed Spain and invaded Portugal in 1807. Then, in 1808, France turned on its...

Nineteenth century

In 1842 the 10th Foot were sent to India and were involved in the First Anglo-Sikh War

First Anglo-Sikh War

The First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company between 1845 and 1846. It resulted in partial subjugation of the Sikh kingdom.-Background and causes of the war:...

and the bloody Battle of Sobraon. The 10th would also see action in the Second Sikh War in the Punjab

Sikh Confederacy

The Sikh Empire was an imperial power from the Indian Subcontinent. The empire, based around the Punjab region, existed from 1799 to 1849. It was forged, on the foundations of the Khalsa, under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh from a collection of autonomous Punjabi Misls...

. They took part in the Battle of Goojerat (or Gujrat, Gujerat) and the siege of Mooltan

Siege of Multan

The Siege of Multan was a prolonged contest between the city and state of Multan and the British East India Company. The siege lasted between 19 April 1848, when a rebellion in the city against a ruler imposed by the East India Company precipitated the Second Anglo-Sikh War, and 22 January 1849,...

. In 1857, at the outbreak of the Sepoy Mutiny the Regiment was stationed at Dinapore and went on to play an important role in the relief of Lucknow

Siege of Lucknow

The Siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defense of the Residency within the city of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. After two successive relief attempts had reached the city, the defenders and civilians were evacuated from the Residency, which was abandoned.Lucknow was the capital of...

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The 10th Foot, 1st Battalion served in Japan from 1868 through 1871. The battalion was charged with protecting the small foreign community in Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

. The leader of the battalion's military band, John William Fenton

John William Fenton

John William Fenton was an Irish musician, the leader of a military band in Japan at the start of the Meiji period...

, is honoured in Japan as "the first bandmaster in Japan" and as "the father of band music in Japan." He is also credited for initiating the slow process in which Kimi ga Yo
Kimi ga Yo
is the national anthem of post-1868 Japan. It is also one of the world's shortest national anthems in current use, with a length of 11 measures and 32 characters. Its lyrics are based on a Waka poem written in the Heian period , sung to a melody written in the imperial period...

came to be accepted as the national anthem

National anthem

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.- History :Anthems rose to prominence...

of Japan.

In 1881, the 10th Regiment of Foot became known as the Lincolnshire Regiment, when all British regiments were given County names.

During the war in the Sudan, 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment took part in the Battle of Omdurman

Battle of Omdurman

At the Battle of Omdurman , an army commanded by the British Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad...

in 1898. The 2nd Battalion saw action in South Africa during the Boer War (1899–1902).

Twentieth century

The Regiment started the Great War with two regular battalions one militia battalion and two territorial battalions. The 1st Lincolns were stationed in Portsmouth, the 2nd Lincolns on Garrison in Bermuda, and the 3rd in Lincoln. The 4th and 5th Battalions were the Territorial battalions.

The Commanding Officer of 2nd Lincoln's, Lieut.-Col. George B. McAndrew, found himself acting Governor, Commander-In-Chief, and Vice-Admiral of Bermuda

Bermuda

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...

in the absence of the Governor, Lieut.-General Sir George Bullock, and oversaw that colony's placement onto a war footing. The battalion returned to England on 3 October 1914, and was sent to the Western Front soon after. A Contingent from the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps

Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps

The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps was created in 1894 as an all-white racially segregated reserve for the British Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison...

was detached in December 1914 to train for the Front. It was hoped this could join 2nd Lincolns, but it arrived in England too late and served, with a second Contingent that arrived the following year, on attachment to 1st Lincolns. Both the 1st and 2nd battalions served on the Western Front throughout the War. At the end of the War in 1918, 3rd Lincolns and 1st Lincolns were sent to Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

to deal with the troubles in the unrecognised Irish Republic.
Thirteen other battalions were raised during the course of the War, including the 10th, the Grimsby Chums

Grimsby Chums

The Grimsby Chums was a British First World War Pals battalion of Kitchener's Army raised in and around the town of Grimsby in Lincolnshire. When the battalion was taken over by the British Army it was officially named the 10th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment...

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World War II was declared on 3 September 1939 and the two Territorial Army battalions, the 4th and the 6th, were called-up immediately. The 2nd battalion embarked for France in October 1939 and were followed by the 6th battalion in April 1940 and managed to return from the Dunkirk evacuation. The 1st battalion, in India, didn't come into action until 1942.

The Territorials of the 4th battalion were sent to Norway and were among the first British soldiers to come into contact against an advancing enemy in the field in World War II. Ill-equipped and without air support they had soon to be evacuated. Within a few weeks they were sent to garrison neutral Iceland

Invasion of Iceland

The invasion of Iceland, codenamed Operation Fork, was a British military operation conducted by the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines and a small Canadian task force during World War II....

. They trained as alpine troops during the two years they were there.

The 6th battalion left for Algiers in January 1943. In September 1943 they took part in the landings at Salerno in Italy. They returned to Egypt to refit in March 1944, by which time they had lost 518 killed, wounded or missing. They returned to Italy in July 1944 and after more hard fighting they sailed for Greece in December to help the civil authorities to keep order. In April 1945 the 6th Lincolns returned to Italy and then moved into Austria for occupation duties.

Currently the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment

Royal Anglian Regiment

The Royal Anglian Regiment is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division.The regiment was formed on 1 September 1964 as the first of the new large infantry regiments, through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the East Anglian Brigade.* 1st Battalion from the...

is the modern unit descended partly from the Lincolnshire Regiment. After forming up as a new squadron in Lincolnshire, 674 Squadron Army Air Corps adopted the Sphynx as the major emblem within its crest in honour of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, this honour being bestowed on the squadron by the then Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Michael Walker.

Battle honours
Battle honours of the British and Imperial Armies
The following battle honours were awarded to units of the British Army and the armies of British India and the Dominions of the British Empire. From their institution until the end of the Second World War, awards were made by, or in consultation with, the British government, but, since 1945, the...

Steenkirk 8 July 1692,
War of the Spanish Succession 1702-1713,
Blenheim 13 August 1704,
Ramillies 23 May 1706,
Oudenarde 11 July 1708,
Malplaquet 11 September 1709,
Bouchain 13 September 1711,
Lexington 19 April 1775,
Bunker's Hill 17 June 1775,
Peninsula 1816,
Sobraon 10 February 1846,
Mooltan 21 December 1848,
Goojuarat 21 February 1849,
Punjab 1857,
Lucknow 1858, 1863,
Atbara 1898,
Khartoum 1898,
Boer War 1899-1902,
Pardeberg 19 February 1899,
South Africa 1900-1902,

Great War: Mons,
Le Cateau,
Retreat from Mons,
Marne 1914,
Aisne 1914, '18,
La Bassée 1914,
Messines 1914, 1917, 1918,
Armentières 1914
Ypres 1914, '15, '17,
Nonne Bosschen,
Neuve Chapelle,
Gravenstafel,
St. Julien,
Frezenberg,
Bellewaarde,
Aubers,
Loos,
Somme 1916, '18,
Albert 1916, '18,
Bazentin,
Delville Wood,
Pozières,
Flers-Courcelette,
Morval,
Thiepval,
Ancre 1916, '18,
Arras 1917, '18,
Scarpe 1917, '18,
Arleux,
Pilckem,
Langemarck 1917,
Menin Road,
Polygon Wood,
Broodseinde,
Poelcappelle,
Passchendaele,
Cambrai 1917, '18,
St. Quentin,
Bapaume 1918,
Lys,
Estaires,
Bailleul,
Kemmel,
Amiens,
Drocourt Quéant,
Hindenburg Line,
Épéhy,
Canal du Nord,
St. Quentin Canal,
Beaurevoir,
Selle,
Sambre,
France and Flanders 1914-18,
Suvla,
Landing at Suvla,
Scimitar Hill,
Gallipoli 1915,
Egypt 1916,

Second World War:
Vist,
Norway 1940,
Dunkirk 1940,
Normandy Landing,
Cambes,
Fontenay le Pesnil,
Defence of Rauray,
Caen,
Orne,
Bourguébus Ridge,
Troarn,
Nederrijn,
Le Havre

Le Havre

Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...

,
Antwerp-Turnhout Canal,
Venraij,
Venlo Pocket,
Rhineland,
Hochwald,
Lingen,
Bremen,
Arnhem 1945,
North-West Europe 1940, '44-45,
Sedjenane I,
Mine de Sedjenane,
Argoub Selah,
North Africa 1943,
Salerno,
Vietri Pass,
Capture of Naples,
Cava di Terreni,
Volturno Crossing,
Garigliano Crossing,
Monte Tuga,
Gothic Line,
Monte Gridolfo,
Gemmano Ridge,
Lamone Crossing,
San Marino,
Italy 1943-45,
Donbaik,
Point 201 (Arakan),
North Arakan,
Buthidaung,
Ngakyedauk Pass,
Ramree,
Burma 1943-45

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Eighteenth century

Nineteenth century

Twentieth century

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