2/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army

• Nationality: UK
• Service: British Army
• Group Type: Unit
  • Infantry Battalion
• Regular/Territorial: Territorial

Name and Organisation Changes

• 13 September 1914: duplicated from 1/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry as 4th (Reserve) Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (initially for home service and training replacements to be sent out to 1/4th)
• January 1915? renamed 2/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
• 1 June 1915: formed duplicate battalion 3/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry (debatable: more research needed)
• 30 January 1918: merged with part of 1/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry to form new 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry

Locations

Theatres

• Britain: September 1914-April 1916
• Ireland: April 1916-January 1917 (Fighting against the Easter Rising was officially classed as home service at the time but needs to be distinguished somehow.)
• Britain: January-February 1917
• France and Flanders: February 1917-January 1918

Parents

Administrative

• Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry

Tactical

• 177th Infantry Brigade (July 1915-30 January 1918)

Children

(similar to 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry)

Sources

Official Sources

War Diaries

• WO 95/3023/1 January-February 1916 (images can be downloaded from TNA for a fee)
• WO 95/3023/2 February 1917-January 1918 (images can be downloaded from TNA for a fee)

Published Histories

• Charles Rudyard Simpson, The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment, 1914-1918 (London, Medici Society, 1931).