King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

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HOME Museum & Collections Sales Donations Events Contact Us REGIMENTAL HISTORY 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century First World War Second World War Actions & Movements Battle Honours FAMILY HISTORY Resources Further Reading PHOTO GALLERY ENQUIRIES FURTHER READING LINKS		Battle Honours to Volunteer, Militia and Territorial Units of the King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster The Crimean War 1854-1856 Mediterranean 1st Royal Lancashire Militia The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 South Africa 1900-02 3rd Militia Battalion King’s Own R Lancaster Regiment South Africa 1900-01 4th Militia Battalion King’s Own R Lancaster Regiment South Africa 1900-1902 Volunteer Active Service Companies of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - later 4th and 5th Battalions The First World War 1914-1919 At the outbreak of the First World War the 4th and 5th (TF) Battalions of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment were mobilised for active service. Both battalions expanded in size and the result was the creation of a second line battalion to the 4th - the 2/4th and two additional battalions to the 5th - the 2/5th and 3/5th. Only the 1/4th, 1/5th and 2/5th Battalions served in overseas in France and Flanders, however many men who enlisted into the 2/4th and 3/5th battalion saw active service with other units after the conclusion of their training. Ypres 1915 1915 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1915 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Gravenstafel 1915 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment St Julien 1915 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Frezenberg 1915 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Festubert 1915 1915 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Loos 1915 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Pozieres 1916 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1916 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Guillemont 1916 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Ginchy 1916 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1916 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Flers-Courcelette 1916 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1916 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Morval 1916 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Ypres 1917 1917 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1917 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Messines 1917 1917 2/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Pilcken 1917 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1917 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Menin Road 1917 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1917 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Passchendaele 1917 2/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Cambrai, 1917 1917 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1917 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Lys 1918 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Hazebrouck 1918 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1918 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Bethune 1918 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1918 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Drocourt-Queant 1918 2/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Canal du Nord 1918 2/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Selle 1918 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Valenciennes 1918 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Sambre 1918 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment France and Flanders 14-18 1/4th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 2/5th Battalion TF King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment The Second World War 1939-1945 St Omer-La Bassee 1940 5th Battalion TA King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster DUNKIRK 1940 1940 5th Battalion TA King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster NORTH WEST EUROPE 1940 5th Battalion TA King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster The 5th Battalion TA, which became the 107th Regiment RAC (King’s Own) during the war, received the Honorary Distinction of the badge of the Royal Armoured Corps with the year dates 1944-45 and the scroll ‘NORTH WEST EUROPE’. The former 4th Battalion TA, which was converted to the 56th Anti-Tank Regiment (King’s Own) RA TA in 1938, served as part of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium in 1940. The unit then went on to serve in Burma. 223 Battery from the 56th Anti-Tank Regiment became 1st Air-Landing Anti-Tank Battery RA in November 1941 and served with the 1st Airborne Division in Sicily in July 1943 and Arnhem in September 1944. 1st Air-Landing Anti-Tank Battery RA was the first Royal Artillery unit to be flown in to battle - at Primosole Bridge, near Catania, Sicily on 13th July 1943.