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Actions, Movements & Quarters
1914-1959
1st Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
4 August
1914 |
Mobilised
for service at Dover, England with the 12th Infantry Brigade, 4th
Division |
|
23 August
1914 |
Arrived in
France at Boulogne |
|
August 1914 |
Retreat from
Mons |
|
26 August
1914 |
Battle of Le
Cateau |
|
7-10
September 1914 |
Battle of
The Marne |
|
12-15
September 1914 |
Battle of
The Aisne |
|
13 October -
2 November 1914 |
Battle of
Armentieres |
|
13 October 1914 |
Capture of Meteren |
|
21 October 1914 |
Battle of Armentieres |
|
22 April to 25 May 1915 |
1st Battle
of Ypres |
|
2 May 1915 |
Repulse of Gas Attack (Wieltje Farm) |
|
24 May 1915 |
Repulse of Gas Attack (La
Brique) |
|
24-25 May
1915 |
Battle of
Bellewaerde Ridge |
|
12 April 1916 |
Raid at Rausart |
| 1 July to 18
November 1916 |
The Somme |
|
1 July 1916 |
Assault of North of Beaumont Hamel (Serre) |
|
1-13 July
1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Albert |
|
23 October 1916 |
Capture of Spectrum Trench |
|
9 April - 4
May 1917 |
The Battles
of Arras |
|
9 April 1917 |
Capture of Fampoux |
|
11 April 1917 to 11 May 1917
|
Capture of Roeux |
|
3 May 1917 |
Attack near Fampoux |
|
September to October 1917 |
3rd Battle of Ypres |
| 9 October
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Poelcappelle |
| 12 October
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Passchendaele
Capture of Poelcappelle |
| 28 March
1918 |
Defence of
Arras - Battle of River Scarpe |
|
29 March 1918 |
Repulse of German attack River
Scarpe |
|
April 1918 |
Battle of Lys |
|
18 April
1918 |
Battle of
Bethune
Loss and Recapture of Riez du Vinage |
|
2 September
1918 |
3rd Battle of the Somme
Battle of
the Drocourt-Queant Line |
|
October to November 1918
|
Advance to Victory |
|
27 October 1918 |
Capture of Querenaing |
| 2 November
1918 |
Battle of
Valenciennes and Capture of Querenaing and Presseau. |
|
21 June 1919 |
Return to England |
2nd Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
August 1914 |
Lebong, India |
|
November 1914 |
Mobilised to be part of 83rd Infantry Brigade, 28th Division, at
Winchester. |
|
16 January 1915 |
Landed at Le Havre, France. |
|
17 February 1915 |
Bayonet Charge at Zwartelen |
|
21 February 1915 |
Repulse of Attack near Ypres |
|
3 May 1915 |
Repulse of attack near Zonnebeke |
|
8 - 13 May
1915 |
2nd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Frezenberg |
|
8 May 1915 |
Repulse of attack at Frezenberg |
|
25 September
- 8 October 1915 |
The Battle
of Loos |
|
November 1915 |
Embarked for Egypt |
|
January 1916 |
Landed in Macedonia (Salonika) |
|
13 October 1916 |
Capture of Barakli Dzuma |
|
March 1917 |
Battle of
Doiran 1917 |
|
23 June 1917 |
Raid at Brest |
|
25 February 1918 |
Raid on Bursuk |
|
18 September
1918 |
Battle of
Doiran 1918 and advance into Bulgaria. |
|
10 November 1918 |
Moved to Chanak |
| December
1918 |
Turkey |
|
13 March 1919 |
Reduced to Cadre |
|
March 1919 |
Returned to Tidworth |
|
July 1919 |
Disbanded
and reformed |
3rd Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
August 1914 |
Mobilised |
|
Mid 1915 |
Draft training
unit based at Saltash. |
1st/4th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment1914-1918
|
4 August 1914 |
Mobilised at
Barrow in Furness |
|
Winter 1914-1915 |
Stationed in Southern England |
| 3rd May 1915 |
Arrived in
France Landed at Boulogne. Joined 154th Infantry
Brigade, 51st Infantry Division |
|
15 June 1915 |
Battle of
Festubert |
|
7 January 1916 |
Joined 164th Infantry Brigade of 55th West Lancashire Division |
|
8 August
1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Guillemont
Attack on Trones Wood |
|
11 September
1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Ginchy
Attack on Delville Wood |
|
27 September
1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Flers |
|
28 September 1916 |
Attack near Mametz |
|
23 December 1916 |
Raid on Cameroon Trench |
|
9 June 1917 |
Raid on Ibex Trench |
|
31 July 1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Pilckem Ridge
Attack on Wieltje |
|
20 September
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of the Menin Road Ridge |
|
November
1917 |
Battle of
Cambrai |
|
20 November 1917 |
Attack near Guillemont Farm |
|
30 November 1917 |
Repulse of Counter attack near Epéhy |
|
March and April 1918 |
Retreat |
|
9 - 11 April
1918 |
Battle of
Estaires - First Defence of Givenchy |
|
26 April 1918 |
Counter attack on Givenchy Craters |
|
24 August
1918 |
Givenchy
Craters |
|
October and November 1918 |
Advance to Victory |
|
4 November
1918 |
Battle of
the Sambre - Advance on Ath |
|
12 December 1918 |
Moved to Brussels |
|
April 1919 |
Returned to England |
2nd/4th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
|
Second line
Territorial Battalion, did not serve overseas but provided drafts of
men to other units. |
1st/5th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
4 August 1914 |
Mobilised at
Lancaster |
|
September
1914-February 1915 |
Didcot,
Oxford and Sevenoaks |
|
15 February
1915 |
Arrived in
France at Le Havre |
|
March 1915 |
Attached to the 14th Brigade of the 5th Division |
|
April 1915 |
Transferred to the 83rd Brigade of the 28th Division |
|
April and May 1915 |
Second Battle of Ypres |
|
23 April 1915 |
Counter attack near St Jean |
|
8 May 1915 |
Attack on Frezenberg |
|
28 September 1915 |
Battle of Loos |
|
October 1915 |
Transferred to the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division |
|
January 1916 |
Joined the 166th Infantry Brigade of the 55th Division |
|
July to October 1916 |
Battle of the Somme |
|
August 1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Guillemont |
|
15 September 1916 |
Battle of Flers |
|
10 May 1917 |
Occupation of Blakeley Crater |
|
31 July 1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battles of Pilckem Ridge |
|
31 July 1917 |
Attack near Wieltje |
|
20 September
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
Further attack on Wieltje |
|
20 to 30
November 1917 |
Battle of
Cambrai |
|
30 November 1917 |
Attack near Epéhy |
|
30 November 1917 |
Defence of Limerick Post |
|
9 April 1918 |
Festubert-Givenchy |
|
24 August
1918 |
Givenchy
Craters |
|
4 November
1918 |
Battle of
the Sambre - Advance on Ath |
|
12 December 1918 |
Moved to Brussels |
|
1 April 1919 |
Moved to Cologne |
|
5 September 1919 |
Returned to England then to Ireland |
|
16 October 1919 |
Cadre returned to Lancaster |
2nd/5th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
7 February
1917 |
Arrived in
France at Le Havre |
|
February 1917 |
Joined 170th Infantry Brigade of the 57th Division |
|
July to October 1917 |
Third Battle of Ypres |
|
October 1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Poelcappelle |
|
26 October 1917 |
Attack on Shaap-Balie |
|
December
1917 |
Houlthoust
Wood |
| |
Attack on
Hindenburg Line |
|
25 August
1918 |
Battle of
the Scarpe: Hendicourt, Cagnicourt |
|
29 August
1918 |
Battle of
the Scarpe: Riencourt |
|
September 1918 |
Advance near Marcoinge |
|
27 September
1918 |
Battle of
Canal du Nord |
|
8 October
1918 |
Battle of
Cambrai
Capture of Riencourt |
|
8 October 1918 |
Attack near Paris Copse |
|
May 1919 |
Returned to United Kingdom |
3rd/5th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
|
Third line
Territorial Battalion, did not serve overseas but provided drafts of
men to other units. |
6th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
9 August 1914 |
Raised in Lancaster |
|
13 June 1915 |
Embarked for Egypt |
|
6 July 1915 |
Arrived in
Gallipoli |
|
5 August 1915 |
Joined 38th Infantry Brigade of the 13th Division |
|
August 1915 |
Attack on
Saribair |
|
9 August 1915 |
Repulsed attack near Aghyl Dere |
|
20 December 1915 |
Evacuated Gallipoli |
|
23 January 1916 |
Disembarked Port Said |
|
27 February
1916 |
Arrived in
Mesopotamia, Basrah |
|
April 1916 |
Actions at
Hannah, Sanniyat, Abu Roman on Tigris |
|
28 September
1916 |
Battle of
Kut-el-a-mara |
|
March 1917 |
Crossing of
Diyalah River |
|
7 March 1917 |
Passage of Dialah River |
|
March 1917 |
Capture of
Baghdad |
|
18 April 1917 |
Capture of Turkish position on Narhwan Canal |
|
24 April 1917 |
Attack near Barurah |
|
30 April 1917 |
Attack at Adhaim |
|
Autumn 1917 |
Pursuit of
Turks |
|
29 April 1918 |
Capture of Tuz |
|
Spring 1918 |
Occupation
of Kirkuk |
|
1919 |
Moved to Rawalpindi, India |
|
August 1919 |
Returned to England |
7th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
September 1914 |
Raised at Lancaster |
|
18 July 1915 |
Arrived in
France at Boulogne |
|
August 1915 |
Joined Lahore Division |
|
September 1915 |
Joined 56th Infantry Brigade of the 19th Division |
|
25 September 1915 |
Battle of Loos |
|
July to October 1916 |
Battle of Somme |
|
4 July 1916 |
The Somme: Attack at Boiselle |
|
6 July1916 |
The Somme:
The Battle of La Boisselle |
|
7 July 1916 |
The Somme: Further advance |
|
23 Jul 1916 |
The Somme: Bazentin le Petit |
| 30 July 1916 |
The Somme: Attack near Pozieres |
|
September 1916 |
Battle of Arras |
|
November
1916 |
The Battle of Grandcourt |
|
13 November 1916 |
Attack on Zollern Trench |
|
June 1917 |
The Battle
of Messines |
|
5 June 1917 |
Raid at Bois Quarante |
|
7 June 1917 |
Attack on Messines Ridge |
|
11 June 1917 |
Advance near Oosterverne |
|
31 July - 29
September 1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres |
|
31 July 1917 |
Attack on Warneton Line |
|
22 September 1917 |
Attack on Comines Canal |
|
2 November 1917 |
Raid near Basseville Beek |
|
Winter 1917-18 |
Fighting in Cambrai Salient |
|
6 February 1918 |
Disbanded |
8th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
Oct 1914 Raised at Lancaster |
|
|
28 September
1915 |
Arrived in
France at Havre Joined the 76th Brigade of the 25th
Division |
|
2 October 1915 |
Attached to the 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade |
|
2 March 1916 |
The Bluff
(Battle of Loos) |
|
3 April 1916 |
Action at
St. Eloi Craters (Battle of Loos) |
|
July to October 1916 |
Battle of the Somme |
|
18 July 1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Delville Wood |
|
16 August 1916 |
Attack near Talus Boise |
|
18 August
1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Guillemont |
|
13 November
1916 |
The Somme:
Attack on Serre |
|
9 April 1917 |
The Battle
of Arras: The Battle of the Scarpe |
|
9 April 1917 |
Attack near Tilloy |
|
11 April 1917 |
Attack on Gurmappe |
|
27 April 1917 |
Repulse of counter attack near Monchy le Preux |
|
12 May 1917 |
Attack on Devils Trench |
|
18 June 1917 |
Repulse of counter attack on Hook Trench |
|
September and October 1917 |
Third Battle of Ypres |
|
16 September
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Zonnebeke |
|
26-28 September 1917 |
Attack on Polygon Wood |
|
March 1918 |
Second Battle of the Somme |
|
21 March
1918 |
The Battle
of St. Quentin |
|
24 March 1918 |
Repulse of Attack near Wancourt |
|
28 March 1918 |
Repulse of further attack |
|
April 1918 |
Battle of Lys |
|
21 August
1918 |
Battle of
Albert: Courcelles and Railway Embankment |
|
23 August
1918 |
Battle of
Albert: Gomiecourt |
|
August 1918 |
Second Battle of Arras |
|
31 August 1918 |
Capture of Francourt Trench |
|
1 September
1918 |
Noreuil |
|
September 1918 |
Battle of the Hindenburg Line |
|
27 September 1918 |
Attack near Flesquieres |
|
28 September
1918 |
Battle of
Canal du Nord: Flesquieres and Ribe Court |
|
1 October 1918 |
Attack near Rumilly |
|
2 October
1918 |
Battle of
the Selle: Rumilly |
|
9 October 1918 |
Attack near Masnieres |
|
23 October 1918 |
Attack near Romieres |
|
11 December 1918 |
Stationed at Krombach |
|
4 March 1919 |
Moved to Cologne |
|
7 April 1919 |
Moved to Bramville |
|
21 May 1919 |
Cadre moved to Antwerp |
|
26 March 1919 |
Cadre returned to England |
9th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
September 1914 |
Raised at Seaforth |
|
5 September
1915 |
Arrival in
France |
|
20 September 1915 |
Joined 65th Brigade of the 22nd Division |
| 8 November
1915 |
Arrived at Salonika (Macedonia) |
|
9 December 1915 |
Retreat of
10th Division from Serbia |
|
28 April 1916 |
Attack at Hill 380 |
|
Autumn 1916 |
Attack on
Petit Mitrailleuse |
|
14 September 1916 |
Attack near Makin Rova |
|
Spring 1917 |
Attack on
Petit Couronne |
|
23 November 1917 |
Repulse of raids on Mamelon Post |
|
25 July 1918 |
Repulse of raids on Mamelon Post |
|
September
1918 |
Battle of
Doiran, 1918 and the final and successful attack on Bulgar Lines, and
advance into Bulgaria, 1918. |
|
28 October 1918 |
Landed at Dedeagateh |
|
November 1918 |
Returned to Stavros |
|
15 January 1919 |
Moved to Sarigol |
|
15 April 1919 |
Moved to Dardanelles |
|
29 November 1919 |
Disbanded at Haidar Pasha |
10th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
|
Draft training
unit based in Saltash, Kingsbridge and Swanage during the war. |
11th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
June 1915 |
Raised |
|
3 June 1916 |
France |
|
31 July - 10
November 1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres |
|
20 November
- 3 December 1917 |
Battle of
Cambrai |
|
17 February
1918 |
Disbanded |
12th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
February 1916 |
Raised as
additional draft finding battalion. |
1st Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
November
1918 |
In the Field
France and Flanders |
|
June 1919 |
Bowerham
Barracks, Lancaster |
|
July 1919 |
Dublin |
1920: The King’s
Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
April 1920 |
On Active
Service in Ireland |
|
December 1922 |
Shorncliffe |
|
October 1926 |
Aldershot |
|
October 1930 |
Haifa,
Palestine |
|
February 1932 |
Cairo, Egypt |
|
October 1934 |
Wellington
Barracks, India |
|
September 1937 |
Madras |
2nd Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
11 November
1918 |
Chanak, Turkey |
|
March 1919 |
Lancaster
(Cadre only) |
|
April 1919 |
Tidworth |
|
November 1919 |
Bombay, India |
|
December 1919 |
Rangoon, Burma |
|
December 1919 |
Maymyo, Burma |
1920: The King’s
Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
March 1925 |
Rawalpindi,
India |
|
December 1929 |
Khartoum,
Atbara and Gebeit |
|
December 1930 |
Whttington
Barracks, Lichfield |
|
November 1934 |
Aldershot |
|
September 1938 |
Haifa,
Palestine |
Second World War
1939-45
1st Battalion King’s Own Royal
Regiment, Lancaster
|
September 1939 |
Karachi, India |
|
April 1941 |
Habbaniya,
Iraq |
|
February
1942 |
Egypt &
Western Desert |
|
27 August
1942 |
Cyprus |
|
14 May
1943 |
Syria |
|
November
1943 |
Leros,
Greece |
|
November
1943 |
Palestine |
Almost totally
wiped out at Leros the few survivors joined the 8th Battalion which was
redesignated 1st Battalion.
|
March 1944 |
Italy |
|
January 1946 |
Trieste and
Pola, Yugoslavia |
2nd Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
August 1940 |
Egypt |
|
February
1941 |
Syria |
|
September/October 1941 |
Tobruk |
|
December
1941 |
Egypt |
|
February
1943 |
Ceylon |
|
|
Bangalore,
India |
|
March 1944 |
Burma |
|
July 1944 |
Cawnpore,
India |
|
1947 |
Calcutta, India |
|
October 1947 |
Fanara, Egypt |
|
1948 |
Asmara, Eritrea |
|
January 1949 |
Khartoum |
|
April 1949 |
Amalgamated
with 1 King’s Own in Trieste |
56th Anti-Tank
Regiment Royal Artillery (TA) (The King’s Own) The former 4th Battalion.
|
September 1939 |
Mobilised for
Service |
|
April 1940 |
France and
Belgium |
|
June 1940 |
Home |
|
March 1942 |
India |
|
October 1943 |
Assam |
|
March 1944 |
Burma |
|
January 1946 |
Suspended
Animation |
5th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
4 September
1939 |
Mobilised for
Service at Carnforth |
|
17 April
1940 |
France and
Belgium |
|
2 June 1940 |
North East and
Yorkshire |
|
September 1940 |
Southern
England |
|
1941 |
East Anglia |
|
November 1941 |
Converted to
tanks to become 107th RAC |
6th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
14 February
1940 |
Formed |
|
25 April
1940 |
France and
Belgium |
|
May 1940 |
Yorkshire |
|
1941 |
Lincolnshire |
|
November 1942 |
Norfolk |
|
January 1946 |
Disbanded |
7th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
14 February
1940 |
Formed at Dover |
|
25 April
1940 |
France and
Belgium |
|
May 1940 |
Newark |
|
14 Dec 1940 |
Northern
Ireland |
|
29 June 1942 |
Gibraltar |
|
14 December
1943 |
Travelled to
India, via South Africa |
|
March 1943 |
Lahore,
India |
|
January 1947 |
Disbanded at
Bangalore, India |
8th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
14 February
1940 |
Formed |
|
26 April
1940 |
France and
Belgium |
|
31 May 1940 |
South West
of England |
|
1 Jan 1941 |
Scilly Isles
and South West of England |
|
1 Aug 1941 |
Malta |
|
5 November
1943 |
Egypt |
|
December
1943 |
Palestine |
|
January 1944 |
Merged with
1st Battalion |
9th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
February 1940 |
Formed |
|
April 1940 |
France and
Belgium |
|
May 1940 |
South Coast |
|
November 1941 |
Converted to 90
Anti/Tank Regiment Royal Artillery |
|
21 December
1943 |
90 Anti-Tank
disbanded |
10th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
Autumn 1940 |
Formed |
|
January 1941 |
Northumberland |
|
January 1942 |
Converted to
Tanks and became 151st RAC |
107th Regiment
Royal Armoured Corps The King’s Own
|
November 1941 |
Converted from
5th Battalion |
|
December 1943 |
Disbanded |
|
January 1944 |
Reformed from
the 151st Regt RAC |
|
July 1944 |
France,
Belgium and Germany |
|
February 1946 |
Disbanded |
151st Regiment
Royal Armoured Corps The King’s Own
|
January 1942 |
Converted from
10th Battalion |
|
August 1942 |
Kent |
|
January 1944 |
To become 107th
RAC |
1st Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster
|
May 1945 |
Ferrara,
Northern Italy |
|
August 1945 |
Gorizia, Italy |
|
September 1945 |
Bolzano, Italy |
|
January 1946 |
Trieste |
|
October 1946 |
Pola,
Yugoslavia |
|
January 1947 |
Trieste |
|
22nd April 1949 |
Amalgamation
Parade of 1st and 2nd Battalions at San Sabba Stadium, Trieste |
|
May 1950 |
Hadrian's Camp,
Carlisle |
|
August 1950 |
Saighton Camp,
Chester |
|
February 1951 |
Bulford Camp |
|
December 1951 |
British Army of
the Rhine, Belfast Barracks, Osnabruck |
|
August/September 1953 |
Move to Korea,
via Aden and Hong Kong |
|
October 1953 |
Korea |
|
September 1954 |
Hong Kong |
|
October 1956 |
Harrington
Barracks, Formby |
|
January 1957 |
Deerbolt Camp,
Barnard Castle |
|
July 1958 |
Kenya |
|
July 1958 |
Aden and
Bahrain |
|
October 1958 |
Gil Gil Camp,
Kenya |
|
July 1959 |
Westwick Camp,
Barnard Castle |
|
October 1959 |
1st Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster was amalgamated with the 1st
Battalion Border Regiment. |
1680 to 1702
1702 to 1800
1800 TO 1914
1959 to 2005
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