1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army

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

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

Parents

Administrative

Tactical

Children

  • Battalion Headquarters
  • 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

Battles

(These are the specific dates this unit took part in these battles, not necessarily dates of whole battle.)

  • Loos: 13 October 1915
  • The Somme: 1 July 1916
  • Hindenburg Line: 29 September 1918

Commanding Officers

(This information might be outside the scope of this project but nowhere else is currently collecting and organising it by unit.)

  • Colonel G.B. Walker (1 April 1908 to May 1912)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Sandall (May 1912 to 13 Oct 1915)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Thuillier Westmorland (Nov 1915 to 1 April 1916)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Sandall (April 1916 to May 1917)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Archibald Waring (May 1917 to 30 June 1918)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Graham Wilson (30 June 1918 to July 1919)


Sources

Personal Narratives

Related Media

Official Sources

War Diaries

Other Official Documents

  • Gallantry medal citations, Lincolnshire Regiment Collection, Lincolnshire Archives

Published 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).

Other Publications

(This would cover published books and articles other than official histories, websites about the unit, and anything else not covered by above sections.)