4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army

Disambiguation: This unit existed from January to November 1918. "4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment" can also refer to 1/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry from 1908 to 1915

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

Name and Organisation Changes

• 30 January 1918: formed from merger of 2/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry and part of 1/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry
• 8 May 1918: reduced to cadre
• 8 November 1918: disbanded

Locations

Theatres

• France and Flanders: January-November 1918

Parents

Administrative

• Lincolnshire Regiment, British infantry

Tactical

• 177th Infantry Brigade (July 1915-30 January 1918)
• 49th Infantry Brigade (2 June 1918-17 June 1918)
• 102nd Infantry Brigade (17 June 1918-27 June 1918)
• 117th Infantry Brigade (27 June 1918-27 July 1918)
• 118th Infantry Brigade (27 July 1918-28 September 1918)
• 116th Infantry Brigade (28 September 1918-8 November 1918)

Children

(4 companies)

Sources

Official Sources

War Diaries

• WO 95/2590/4 February-November 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).