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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 |
|
23 August
1914 |
Arrived in
France |
|
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 |
|
22 April to
25 May 1915 |
1st Battle
of Ypres |
|
24-25 May
1915 |
Battle of
Bellewaerde Ridge |
|
1 July to 18
November 1916 |
The Somme |
|
1-13 July
1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Albert |
|
9 April - 4
May 1917 |
The Battles
of Arras |
|
9 October
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Poelcappelle |
|
12 October
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Passchendaele |
|
28 March
1918 |
Defence of
Arras - Battle of River Scarpe |
|
18 April
1918 |
Battle of
Bethune |
|
2 September
1918 |
Battle of
the Drocourt-Queant Line |
|
2 November
1918 |
Battle of
Valenciennes and Capture of Querenaing and Presseau. |
2nd Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
August 1914 |
India |
|
January 1915 |
France |
|
8 - 13 May
1915 |
2nd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Frezenberg |
|
25 September
- 8 October 1915 |
The Battle
of Loos |
|
November
1915 |
Macedonia (Salonika) |
|
March 1917 |
Battle of
Doiran 1917 |
|
September
1918 |
Battle of
Doiran 1918 and advance into Bulgaria. |
|
December
1918 |
Turkey |
|
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
|
August 1914 |
Mobilised |
|
3rd May 1915 |
Arrived in
France |
|
15 June 1915 |
Battle of
Festubert |
|
8 August
1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Guillemont |
|
11 September
1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Ginchy |
|
27 September
1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Flers |
|
31 July 1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Pilckem Ridge |
|
20 September
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of the Menin Road Ridge |
|
November
1917 |
Battle of
Cambrai |
|
9 - 11 April
1918 |
Battle of
Estaires - First Defence of Givenchy |
|
24 August
1918 |
Givenchy
Craters |
|
4 November
1918 |
Battle of
the Sambre - Advance on Ath |
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
|
August 1914 |
Mobilised |
|
September
1914 |
Didcot and
Oxford |
|
15 February
1915 |
Arrived in
France |
|
May 1915 |
2nd Battle
of Ypres |
|
August 1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Guillemont |
|
31 July 1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battles of Pilckem Ridge |
|
20 September
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of the Menin Road Ridge |
|
20 to 30
November 1917 |
Battle of
Cambrai |
|
24 August
1918 |
Givenchy
Craters |
|
4 November
1918 |
Battle of
the Sambre - Advance on Ath |
2nd/5th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
7 February
1917 |
Arrived in
France |
|
October 1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Battle of Poelcappelle |
|
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 |
|
27 September
1918 |
Battle of
Canal du Nord |
|
8 October
1918 |
Battle of
Cambrai |
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 Battaion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
6 July 1915 |
Arrived in
Gallipoli |
|
August 1915 |
Attack on
Saribair |
|
27 February
1916 |
Arrived in
Mesopotamia |
|
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 |
|
March 1917 |
Capture of
Baghdad |
|
Autumn 1917 |
Pursuit of
Turks |
|
Spring 1918 |
Occupation
of Kirkuk |
7th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
18 July 1915 |
Arrived in
France |
|
6 July1916 |
The Somme:
The Battle of La Boisselle |
|
30 July 1916 |
The Somme:
The Battle of Bazentin |
|
November
1916 |
The Somme:
The Battle of Grandcourt |
|
7 June 1917 |
The Battle
of Messines |
|
31 July - 29
September 1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres |
8th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
28 September
1915 |
Arrived in
France |
|
2 March 1916 |
The Bluff
(Battle of Loos) |
|
3 April 1916 |
Action at
St. Eloi Craters (Battle of Loos) |
|
18 July 1916 |
The Somme:
Battle of Delville Wood |
|
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 |
|
16 September
1917 |
3rd Battle
of Ypres: Zonnebeke |
|
21 March
1918 |
The Battle
of St. Quentin |
|
21 August
1918 |
Battle of
Albert: Courcelles and Railway |
|
23 August
1918 |
Battle of
Albert: Gomiecourt |
|
1 September
1918 |
Noreuil |
|
28 September
1918 |
Battle of
Canal du Nord: Flesquieres and Ribe Court |
|
2 October
1918 |
Battle of
the Selle: Rumilly |
9th Battalion
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1918
|
September
1915 |
Arrival in
France |
|
8 November
1915 |
Arrival in
Macedonia (Salonkia) |
|
December
1915 |
Retreat of
10th Division from Serbia |
|
Autumn 1916 |
Attack on
Petit Mitrailleuse |
|
Spring 1917 |
Attack on
Petit Couronne |
|
September
1918 |
Battle of
Doiran, 1918 and the final and successful attack on Bulgar Lines, and
advance into Bulgaria, 1918. |
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 |
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