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King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
British Army - Infantry

The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment

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4th Regiment of Foot

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62nd Foot

The Duchess of York and Albany's Regiment of Foot

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The King's Own Regiment of Foot

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Queen's Own Regiment of Mariners

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King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)

The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. In 1959 the regiment was amalgamated with the Border Regiment to form the King's Own Royal Border Regiment.

Active - 1680-1959

Motto -

Colours - Blue Facings, Gold Braided Lace

Corps March -

• Quick: Corn Riggs are Bonnie
• Slow: And Shall Trelawny Die?

Nick-names - Barrell's Blues, The Lions

Timeline

1680 - Raised as 2nd Tangier or Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Foot by the Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth
1684 - Re-designated The Duchess of York and Albany's Regiment of Foot
1685 - Re-designated The Queen's Own Regiment of Foot
1688 - Re-designated The Queen Consort's Regiment of Foot
1702 - Served as Marines 1703-15 and named Queen's Own Regiment of Mariners during that time.
1715 - Re-designated The King's Own Regiment of Foot
1747 - Ranked as 4th Regiment of Foot
1751 - known as 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot
1757 - 2nd Battalion 4th Foot raised and re-designated as 62nd Foot in 1758
1799 - 2nd Battalion 4th Foot raised and disbanded 1802
1804 - 2nd Battalion 4th Foot re-formed - disbanded 1815
1857 - 2nd Battalion 4th Foot re-formed 1867 - Re-designated 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
1898 Badge

The 2nd Battalion embarked for South Africa in December 1899, to serve in the Second Boer War, and saw action at the Battle of Spion Kop in January 1900

1874 - 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot and 2nd Battalion 4th Foot were combined to form 1st and 2nd Battalions of 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
c1874 - 4th Foot (King's Own Royal)
1881 - Formed the 1st and 2nd Battalions of The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
after 1898 - Badge (right) was introduced.
1921 - Re-designated King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)

Battle honours

Colours of Barrell's Regiment, carried at Culloden

• Namur 1695, Gibraltar 1704-05, Guadeloupe 1759, St. Lucia 1778, Corunna, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nive, Peninsula, Bladensburg, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Abyssinia, South Africa 1879, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902
• The Great War (16 battalions): Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Bapaume 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18
• The Second World War: St Omer-La Bassée, Dunkirk 1940, North-West Europe 1940, Defence of Habbaniya, Falluja, Iraq 1941, Merjayun, Jebel Mazar, Syria 1941, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, North Africa 1940-42, Montone, Citta di Castello, San Martino Sogliano, Lamone Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Malta 1941-42, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

Notable Personnel

Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Other links take you to external biographical web pages.

Victoria Cross Recipients

• Private (later Sergeant) Thomas Grady, Crimean War WIKI
• Private Albert Halton, 1st Battalion, Great War WIKI
• Private Harry Christian, 2nd Battalion, Great War WIKI
• Lance-Sergeant Tom Fletcher Mayson, 1/4th Battalion, Great War WIKI
• Second Lieutenant Joseph Henry Collin, 1/4th Battalion, Great War WIKI
• Lance-Corporal (later Corporal) James Hewitson, 1/4th Battalion, Great War WIKI
• Lance-Corporal Jack White, 6th (Service) Battalion, Great War WIKI
• Private James Miller, 7th (Service) Battalion, Great War WIKI
• Corporal Thomas Neely, 8th (Service) Battalion, Great War WIKI

Colonels

• 1680 Col. Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth (bastard son of Charles II, d. 1680)
• 1680 Lt-Gen. Hon Percy Kirke (senior)
• 1682 Col. Charles Trelawny

The Queen Consort's Regiment of Foot - (1688)

• 1688 Col. Sir Charles Orby, 2nd Bt.
• 1688 Maj-Gen. Charles Trelawny [re-appointed]
• 1692 Brig-Gen. Henry Trelawny
• 1702 Lt-Gen. William Seymour

The King's Own Regiment of Foot - (1715)

• 1717 Brig-Gen. The Hon. Henry Berkeley
• 1719 Gen. Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan
• 1734 Lt-Gen. William Barrell
• 1749 Lt-Gen. Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet
• 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot - (1751)
• 1756 Lt-Gen. Alexander Duroure
• 1765 Col. The Hon. Robert Brudenell

4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot - (1767)

• 1768 F.M. Studholme Hodgson
• 1782 Lt-Gen. Sir John Burgoyne
• 1792 Gen. George Morrison
• 1799 Gen. John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, KG
• 1835 Gen. John Hodgson
• 1846 Gen. Sir Thomas Bradford, GCB, GCH
• 1853 Gen. Sir John Bell, GCB
• 1876 Gen. Studholme John Hodson

The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) - (1881)

• 1890 Gen. William Sankey, CB
• 1892 Lt-Gen. William Wilby, CB
• 1894 Gen. Sir William Gordon Cameron, GCB, VD
• 1913 Gen. Sir Archibald Hunter, GCB, GCVO, DSO, LLD, TD

The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) - (1921) 1926 Lt-Gen. Sir Oswald Cuthbert Borrett, KCB, CMG, CBE, DSO 1945 Maj-Gen. Russell Mortimer Luckock, CB, CMG, DSO 1947 Brig. John Herbert Hardy, CBE, MC 1957 Maj-Gen. Richard Neville Anderson, CB, CBE, DSO (continued 1961 in King's Own Royal Border Regiment; also 10th Gurkha Rifles)

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Sources, References and Further Reading

• Brereton, J M A Guide to the regiments and Corps of the British Army on the Regular Establishment (Bodley Head) 1985
• Griffin, P D Encyclopedia of Modern British Army Regiments (Sutton Publishers) 2006
• Lumley, Goff Amalgamations in the British Army 1660-2008 (Partizan Press 2009)
• WIKI
• WIKI 2nd Tangier Regiment

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