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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
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The Lancashire
Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
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| 1958.07.01 | The
Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) formed by amalgamation of The East Lancashire Regiment, and The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) |
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| 1970.03.25 | amalgamated with The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), to form The Queen's Lancashire Regiment | |
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| Lancastrian Brigade [1958-1968] | ||
| King's Division [1968-1970] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1958-1970] | ||
| Territorials
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| 4th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment [1958-1971] | ||
| 4th Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment [1958-1967] | ||
| Lancastrian Volunteers [1967-1970] | ||
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[combined battle honours of The East Lancashire Regiment, and The South Lancashire Regiment, with the following emblazoned:] Gibraltar 1704-5, Louisburg, Belleisle, Martinique 1762, Havannah, St. Lucia 1778, Cape of Good Hope 1806, Monte Video, Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna, Talavera, Java, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Niagara, Waterloo, Bhurtpore, Candahar, Ghuznee 1842, Cabool 1842, Maharajpore, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Lucknow, Canton, New Zealand, Ahmad Khel, Afghanistan 1878-80, Chitral, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, Messines 1914 '17 '18, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Neuve Chappelle, Somme 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Lys, Doiran 1917 '18, Helles, Sari Bair, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Baluchistan 1918 Afghanistan 1919 The Second World War: Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Bourguébus Ridge, Falaise, Lower Maas, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Weeze, Aller, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Madagascar, North Arakan, Kohima, Pinwe, Nyaungu Bridgehead, Burma 1943-45 |
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| Uniform: | 1958-1970:
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| 1958.07.01 | Maj-Gen. William Harold Lambert, CB, CBE [from East Lancs Regt] | |
| 1966.05.01 | Maj-Gen. Hon. Miles Francis Fitzalan Howard, KCVO, CB, CBE, MC [also Hon. Col. Cambridge Univ OTC; continued 1970 in Q Lancs Regt] | |
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| Freedoms: | Haslingden (Rossendale) (18 Apr. 1964); inherited from predecessors: Warrington, Blackburn | |
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| Miscellaneous Tradition Links: | ||
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The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment | 1958-1970 | |
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The West Nova Scotia Regiment | 1958-1970 | |
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40th Infantry Battalion (The Derwent Regiment) | 1958-1960 | |
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The Royal Tasmania Regiment | 1967-1970 | |
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The Hawkes Bay Regiment | ||
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8th Battalion, The Punjab Regiment | ||
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Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum, Preston (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Lancashire County and Regimental Museum, Preston (Simonides listing) | |
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Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum, Preston (Simonides listing) | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The regimental journal of The Lancashire Regiment (PWV). Warrington | |
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