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Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army raised on 20 June 1685 as the Earl of Bath's Regiment for its first Colonel, John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath. In 1751, it was numbered like most other Army regiments and named the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot. After the Childers Reforms of 1881, it became the Lincolnshire Regiment after the county where it had been recruiting since 1781.

Earl of Bath's Regiment
10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot
Lincolnshire Regiment
Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

1685–1960

 Kingdom of England (1685–1707)
 Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800)
 United Kingdom (1801–1960)

 British Army

Line infantry

Infantry

Varied

The Old Barracks, Lincoln (1873–1880)
Sobraon Barracks, Lincoln (1880–1960)

"The Yellow Bellies"[1]
"the Springers"[2]

Nine Years' War
War of the Spanish Succession (Blenhein, Ramillies & Malplaquet)
American War of Independence (Lexington, Bunker Hill, New York and New Jersey campaign, Germantown, Monmouth, & Rhode Island)
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
Peninsular War
First World War
Second World War

After the Second World War, it became the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, before being amalgamated in 1960 with the Northamptonshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) which was later amalgamated with the 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. 'A' Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglians continues the traditions of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

Regimental museum[edit]

The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry collections are displayed in Lincoln's Museum of Lincolnshire Life.[84] Artefacts concerning the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps contingents that served with the Lincolnshires during the two world wars are displayed in the Bermuda Maritime Museum (part of the British Overseas Territory's territorial museum) in the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda.[85][86]

Earlier Wars

Steenkirk, 8 July 1692

Great War:

Retreat from Mons

Second World War:

Norway 1940

The regiment's battle honours are as follows:[87]

Private , Indian Mutiny (12 August 1857/14 March 1858)

Denis Dempsey

Lieutenant , Indian Mutiny (16 July 1857)

Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan

Private , Indian Mutiny (4 June 1857)

John Kirk

Lance-Sergeant First World War (2 September 1918)

Arthur Evans

Captain , First World War (9 August 1915)

Percy Hansen

Temp Major , Second World War (16 February 1944)

Charles Ferguson Hoey

Acting Corporal , First World War (9 May 1915)

Charles Richard Sharpe

Captain , Second World War (9 December 1944)

John Brunt

Victoria Crosses awarded to men of the Regiment were:

Colonel-in-Chief[edit]

1888–1902: F.M. Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar, KP, GCB, GCVO

1685–1688: Col.

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath

1688: Col. Sir

Charles Carney

1688–1693: Col. [reappointed]

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath

1693–1703: Lt-Gen. Sir

Bevil Granville

1703–1715: Lt-Gen.

William North, 6th Baron North & Grey

1715–1737: Lt-Gen. Henry Grove

1737–1746: Lt-Gen. Francis Columbine

1746–1749: F.M. (Lord Kilmaine)

James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley

1749-1763: Lt-Gen.

Edward Pole

who won the VC in Italy while attached to the regiment

John Brunt

who won the VC in Burma while attached to the regiment

Charles Ferguson Hoey

The Lincoln and Welland Regiment

Brice, Beatrix (2014). The Battle Book of Ypres: A Reference to Military Operations in the Ypres Salient 1914-18. Pen & Sword.  978-1473821231.

ISBN

Cannon, Richard (1847). . CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series, no. 48345. Parker, Furnivall and Parker. ISBN 9780665483455.

Historical record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire Regiment containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent services to 1847

Heathcote, Tony (1999). The British Field Marshals 1736–1997. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword.  0-85052-696-5.

ISBN

Müller, PF (1873). Wilhelm III von Oranien und Georg Friedrich von Waldeck, Volume II (in German). The Hague.

Spring, Colonel F. G. (2008). The History of the 6th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Poacher Books.  9780955991417.

ISBN

Swinson, Arthur (1972). A Register of the Regiments and Corps of the British Army. : The Archive Press. ISBN 0-85591-000-3.

London

Ray Westlake, Tracing the Rifle Volunteers, Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010,  978 1 84884 211 3.

ISBN

Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (10th Foot)

Regiments.Org: The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

Official Webpage of 2 Royal Anglian Regiment

Grimsby Branch, The Royal Lincolnshire & Royal Anglian Regimental Association

Lincoln Branch, The Royal Lincolnshire & Royal Anglian Regimental Association

1914–1918 Net: The Lincolnshire Regiment in the Great War

in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life

Army Museums Ogilby Trust: Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry Collections

Tenth Foot. American War of Independence period re-enactors

Orbat of British Military Operations, 1919–1939