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Revision as of 06:03, 9 March 2015
| 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. |
| Sources for created: | |
| Name1: | 5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment |
| Name1 Start: | 1/4/1908 |
| Name1 End: | 1915 |
| Reason for change: | Renumbering of territorial battalions. |
| Sources for name1: | |
| Name2: | 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment |
| Name2 Start: | 1915 |
| Name2 End: | 30/6/1919 |
| Reason for change: | |
| Sources for name2: | |
| Alternate names: | 5th Lincolns |
| Sources for alternate names: | |
| Disbanded: | 30/6/1919. |
| Sources for disbanded: | |
| 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 |
| Sources: | |
| Command structure | |
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| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Parent unit: | 138th Infantry Brigade, UK |
| Parent level: | Brigade |
| Start date: | 01/04/1908 |
| End date: | 30/06/1919 |
| Sources: | |
| Theatre of war | |
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| Theatre name: | British Isles |
| Date entered: | 01/04/1908 |
| Date left: | 27/2/1915 |
| Sources: | |
| Theatre of war | |
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| Theatre name: | France, Belgium and Germany |
| Date entered: | 28/02/1915 |
| Date left: | 8/1/1916 |
| Sources: | |
| Theatre of war | |
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| Theatre name: | Egypt, Palestine and Syria |
| Date entered: | 14/1/1916 |
| Date left: | 3/2/1916 |
| Sources: | |
| Theatre of war | |
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| Theatre name: | France, Belgium and Germany |
| Date entered: | 9/02/1916 |
| Date left: | 30/6/1919 |
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Contents
Personal narratives
William Albert Wenham, 2683, 240601
Lance Corporal Template:RefLives sent letters home relating to his capture while serving with this battalion and subsequent imprisonment in Germany. The form notifying his family that he was missing gives his battalion as 1/5th Lincolnshire Regiment, and the battalion's war diary mentions him by name (Template:RefWarDiary).
- Images and transcripts at From the Page
- Images on Flickr
- Images and transcripts are also availabe at the Great War Archive.
Related media
- Photo of pre-war D Company
- Photo of battalion football team, October 1914
- Photo of Wiliam Wenham probably taken while serving with this battalion
Official sources
Unit war diaries
- Template:WarDiaryTNA
- Flickr images of whole TNA diary, free for non-commercial use.
Unit histories
- Thomas Edward Sandall, A History of the 5th Battalion the Lincolnshire Regiment (Oxford, Blackwell, 1922).
Other official documents
Gallantry medal citations, Lincolnshire Regiment Collection, Lincolnshire Archives
Other sources
References
