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Also known as '''The Buffs'''
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'''The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment'''  
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== Chronology ==
 
== Chronology ==
 
*'''1685''' raised as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
 
*'''1685''' raised as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
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*'''1781''' became the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
 
*'''1781''' became the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
 
*'''1881''' became The Lincolnshire Regiment  
 
*'''1881''' became The Lincolnshire Regiment  
*'''1935''' became The Buffs, (Royal East Kent Regiment)
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*'''1946''' became '''The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment'''
*'''1961''' amalgamated with 50th/97th The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment to form 3rd/50th/97th The Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment
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*'''1960''' amalgamated with [[48th Regiment of Foot|The Northamptonshire Regiment]], to form 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
*'''1966''' merged and became 2nd Battalion (Queen's Own Buffs), The Queen's Regiment
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*'''1964''' united with 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot), and The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, to form The Royal Anglian Regiment
*'''1992''' amalgamated with The Royal Hampshire Regiment to form The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
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== Service in British India ==
 
== Service in British India ==
 
*'''1798''' India
 
*'''1798''' India
*'''1801''' Egypt
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*'''1801''' [[Egyptian Campaign 1801|Egypt]]
 
*'''1842''' India
 
*'''1842''' India
 
*'''1845''' [[1st Sikh War]]
 
*'''1845''' [[1st Sikh War]]
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*'''1936''' [[Bombay]]
 
*'''1936''' [[Bombay]]
 
*'''1939''' [[Dinapore]]  
 
*'''1939''' [[Dinapore]]  
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:A detachment of the 2nd Battalion was in Port Blair, [[Andaman Islands]] in January 1871  and [[Rangoon]] in August 1871.<ref>JeffH01.  10th Regiment of Foot (North Lincolnshire Regt) ''Rootsweb British Army Message Board'' 21 October 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2015, but since  deleted.</ref> ''The Army Medical Department Report for 1871'' advises eleven and a half months in Rangoon, with a detachment at Port Blair.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=onQCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA143 Page 143] ''Army Medical Department Report for 1871'' Google Books</ref>
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== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
===Historical Books Online===
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_(North_Lincoln)_Regiment_of_Foot 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>
''Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1847''  by Richard Cannon 1847 [http://books.google.com/books?id=sAYRAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google BooksIndian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=sAYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 page 46] in 1799 in Madras
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Lincolnshire_Regiment Royal Lincolnshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_of_Wales%27s_Royal_Regiment Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment] Wikipedia
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071216173200/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/010Lincs.htm The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071215220751/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/010-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071116223803/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/010-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.
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*[http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/index.shtml The Royal Anglian & Royal Lincolnshire Regimental Association]
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**[http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/museum_exhibits.shtml The Regimental Museum]
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**[http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/albertedwards.shtml Albert 'Dick' Edwards] was with the  2nd Battalion  Lincolnshire Regiment, in India 1924-1928 and in the 1930s Ships Sergeant Major on the  troop ship "HMT Neuralia" to and from India.
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*[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/index.html The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum] Covers the Royal Norfolk Regiment ([[9th Regiment of Foot|9th Foot]]), the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (10th Foot), the Suffolk Regiment ([[12th Regiment of Foot|12th Foot]]), the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment ([[16th Regiment of Foot|16th Foot]]), the Royal Leicestershire Regiment ([[17th Regiment of Foot|17th Foot)]], the Essex Regiment ([[44th Regiment of Foot|44th]]/ [[56th Regiment of Foot|56th Foot]]), and the Northamptonshire Regiment ([[48th Regiment of Foot|48th]]/ [[58th Regiment of Foot|58th Foot]]).
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**[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/lincolnshire.html The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (10th Foot)]
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20040811035937/http://www.yesteryearsgen.com/10th_Foot_sutlej_roll.htm Sutlej Medal 1845/6 Roll for the 10th Regiment of Foot, with clasp "Sobraon"] from the archived website [http://web.archive.org/web/20040830235235/http:/www.yesteryearsgen.com YesterYears]
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====Historical books online====
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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=sAYRAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1847''] by Richard Cannon (1847) Google Books. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=sAYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 page 46] in 1799 in Madras.
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*[https://archive.org/stream/recollectionsoft00gordrich#page/84/mode/2up Page 85] ''Recollections of thirty-nine years in the Army : Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843, the gold coast of Africa, 1847-48, the Indian mutiny, 1857-58, the expedition to China, 1860-61, the siege of Paris, 1870-71, etc.'' by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon,  Surgeon- General 1898 Archive.org. The author transferred into the 10th Regiment of Foot in 1851 by purchase.
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*''Barracks and battlefields in India; or, The experiences of a soldier of the 10th Foot (North Lincoln) in the Sikh wars and Sepoy Mutiny'', edited by the Rev Caesar Caine 1891 [1971 reprint edition] [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.507263 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The soldier was Thomas Malcolm. This book, 1891 edition,  is also available on a restricted access basis, probably accessible by those in North America on the  [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100382741 Hathi Trust Digital Library]
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*''The History of the Tenth Foot (the Lincolnshire Regiment)'' by Albert Lee 1911. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062977288 Volume I], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062977296?urlappend=%3Bseq=13  Volume II [1813-1910<nowiki>]</nowiki>]  Includes [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062977296?urlappend=%3Bseq=379 Alphabetical List of Officers 1685-1910]. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
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*''The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1918'' – edited by Major-General C R Simpson  1931.  [Advised elsewhere "in fact Everard Wyrall was employed to compile the work"]
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:Available on the pay website [[findmypast]]<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-records-and-regimental-histories British Army Records & Regimental Histories] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records. findmypast. Click on 'Browse Title', select title, then click on 'View Results'. </ref>. If signed in to findmypast, the links are [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0730%2f0004 Title page] (image 4), [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0730%2f0012 Contents] (image 12), [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE/ENECLANNPDFS/GB0730/0158&parentid=IRE/ENECLANNPDFS/GB0730/0158 The Dardanelles] page 141 (image 158) -  6th (Service) Battalion).
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:Also available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-lincolnshire-regiment-1914-1918/''History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1918'']   Naval & Military Press</ref>,  which in turn is available as  an online book on the Ancestry owned [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI197C8BXwyv pay website fold3].
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:Note the fold3 version is easier to read online than the findmypast version.
  
===Other===
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== References ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_(North_Lincoln)_Regiment_of_Foot 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Lincolnshire_Regiment Royal Lincolnshire Regiment] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_of_Wales%27s_Royal_Regiment Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment] Wikipedia
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Revision as of 06:34, 23 April 2019

The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

Chronology

  • 1685 raised as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
  • 1751 became the 10th Regiment of Foot
  • 1781 became the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
  • 1881 became The Lincolnshire Regiment
  • 1946 became The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
  • 1960 amalgamated with The Northamptonshire Regiment, to form 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire)
  • 1964 united with 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk), 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot), and The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, to form The Royal Anglian Regiment

Service in British India

A detachment of the 2nd Battalion was in Port Blair, Andaman Islands in January 1871 and Rangoon in August 1871.[1] The Army Medical Department Report for 1871 advises eleven and a half months in Rangoon, with a detachment at Port Blair.[2]

External Links

Historical books online

Available on the pay website findmypast[3]. If signed in to findmypast, the links are Title page (image 4), Contents (image 12), The Dardanelles page 141 (image 158) - 6th (Service) Battalion).
Also available in a reprint edition[4], which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.
Note the fold3 version is easier to read online than the findmypast version.

References

  1. JeffH01. 10th Regiment of Foot (North Lincolnshire Regt) Rootsweb British Army Message Board 21 October 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2015, but since deleted.
  2. Page 143 Army Medical Department Report for 1871 Google Books
  3. British Army Records & Regimental Histories located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records. findmypast. Click on 'Browse Title', select title, then click on 'View Results'.
  4. History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1918 Naval & Military Press