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*John David Hills, ''The Fifth Leicestershire: A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919'', (Loughborough, Echo Press, 1919).
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**[https://archive.org/details/leicestershire00hilluoft Page images at Internet Archive]
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**[https://archive.org/details/thefifthleiceste17369gut Text from Project Gutenberg]
  
 
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Revision as of 04:56, 1 March 2015

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1/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, British Army
Years active: 1/4/1908 – unknown
Country: United Kingdom
Service: British Army
Branch: Territorial Force
Type: Infantry
Specific type: Infantry battalion
Full size: 1,000
Sources for overview:
Created: 1/4/1908. 
Sources for created:
Name1: 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
Name1 Start: 1/4/1908
Name1 End: 1915
Reason for change: Renumbering of territorial battalions.
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Name2: 1/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
Name2 Start: 1915
Name2 End: unknown
Reason for change:
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Alternate names:
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Disbanded: unknown. 
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For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war.
Command structure
Relationship type: Administrative
Parent unit: Leicestershire Regiment, UK
Parent level:
Start date: unknown
End date: unknown
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Command structure
Relationship type: Tactical
Parent unit: 138th Infantry Brigade, UK
Parent level: Brigade
Start date: 01/03/1915
End date: 31/05/1919
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Theatre of war
Theatre name: France, Belgium and Germany
Date entered: 01/03/1915
Date left: 31/05/1919
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