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| 1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army | |
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| Years active: | 1/4/1908 – 30/6/1919 |
| 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. |
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| Name1: | 5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment |
| Name1 Start: | 1/4/1908 |
| Name1 End: | 1/1/1915 |
| Reason for change: | Renumbering of territorial units |
| Sources for name1: | |
| Name2: | 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment |
| Name2 Start: | 1/1/1915 |
| Name2 End: | 30/6/1919 |
| Reason for change: | |
| Sources for name2: | |
| Alternate names: | 5th Lincolns |
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| Disbanded: | 30/6/1919. |
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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 | |
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| Relationship type: | Administrative |
| Parent unit: | Lincolnshire Regiment, UK |
| Parent level: | |
| Start date: | 1/4/1908 |
| End date: | 30/6/1919 |
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| Command structure | |
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| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Parent unit: | 138th Infantry Brigade, UK |
| Parent level: | British brigade |
| Start date: | 1/4/1908 |
| End date: | 30/6/1919 |
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Contents
Name and Organisation Changes
- 1 April 1908: formed as 5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
- 31 August 1914: formed duplicate battalion 2/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
- 1 January 1915: merged 8 companies into 4
- January 1915? renamed 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
- 30 January 1918: absorbed part of 1/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
- July 1919: disembodied
Children
- Transport Section
- Machine Gun Section (transferred to 138th Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps, 22 February 1916)
- Lewis Gun Section (22 February 1916 to 31 May 1916)
- Companies before 1 January 1915:
- A Company
- B Company
- C Company
- D Company
- E Company
- F Company
- G Company
- H Company
- Companies after 1 January 1915 (not the same as previous A-D Companies):
- A Company
- B Company
- C Company
- D Company
Locations
Theatres
- Home: 1 April 1908-27 February 1915
- France and Flanders: 28 February 1915-8 January 1916
- Egypt: 14 January 1916-3 February 1916
- France and Flanders: 9 February 1916-25 July 1919
Personal Narratives
William Wenham
- William Wenham's letters relating to his capture while serving with the battalion and subsequent imprisonment in Germany:
Related Media
Official Sources
Unit war diaries
- Template:WarDiaryTNA
- Flickr images of whole TNA diary, free for non-commercial use.
Other Official Documents
- Gallantry medal citations, Lincolnshire Regiment Collection, Lincolnshire Archives
Official Unit Histories
- Thomas Edward Sandall, A History of the 5th Battalion the Lincolnshire Regiment (Oxford, Blackwell, 1922).
- Charles Rudyard Simpson, The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment, 1914-1918 (London, Medici Society, 1931).
