Travels & Treasures of the Lancashire Infantry
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1 Travels and Treasures of the LANCASHIRE INFANTRY 1717 to 2004 2 A celebration of the treasures and travel achievements of the East Lancashire, South Lancashire and the Loyal North Lancashire Regiments; their Heirs and Successors: Ÿ They captured an Eagle Ÿ Found a Prime Minister Ÿ Won 17 Victoria Crosses Fought on every inhabited continent Their legacy is now part of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment 3 In 1689 King William the Third raised a Regiment first known as the Castleton Regiment after its 1st Colonel, before eventually being renamed the 30th Foot. This was the early beginning of what was, some 300 years later, to become the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. 4 Drummer & Musketeer Lord Castleton’s Regiment 1689 5 Private Officer Mordaunts Regiment of Foot 1741 Later to become the 47th Foot before eventually The Loyal North Lancs 6 7 Chew House, Germantown, Philadelphia [American revolution led by George Washington] 8 A Private Soldier of the 40th Foot, 1742 when the Regiment was stationed at Annapolis, Canso and Placentia 9 General Wolfe dying after the Battle of Quebec 1759 10 Light Infantry Grenadier N.C.O North America 1759 11 MAIDA 4 July 1806 12 Silver Snuff Box Battle of Maida 4 July 1806 13 Officers Coatee 1796 to 1816 Coatee worn by Lt AENEAS McPHERSON 59th Foot 1811-1813 The cloak belonged to Capt Thomas Franklyn of the 40th Foot 14 The Forlorn Hope Storming of San Sebastian 11 August 1813 15 82nd Prince of Wales (South Lancashires) Napoleonic Wars 16 Sergeant Light Coy Private Grenadier Coy Officer Battalion Coy 2/59th ( 2nd Nottinghamshire Regiment) 17 The SALAMANCA EAGLE Captured by Lt. John Pratt Of the 30th Foot Battle of Salamanca 22 July 1812 18 Watch given to Sgt John Ward Of the 30th Foot 1812 Battle of Salamanca 19 The Waterloo Drum Captured by the 30th Foot 18 June 1815 19a La Haye Saint 20 Battle of Pyrenees 21 Officer’s Coatee 1829 Showing Tarifa Buttons 22 Carib War on the West Indian Island of St. Vincent 1796 - 1798 23 Silver Sphinx Commissioned by Officers of the 40th Foot 1802 24 The Asserghur Gong India 1819 [The siege of the rock fortress of Asserghur] Pvte Grenadier Sergeant 25 Private and Officer 30th Foot 1849 Home Service 26 Crimea September 10th 1855 27 The Crimea Medal 1855 Lt. Colonel James Mauleverer Medal includes the rare ‘Balaclava’ clasp Uniform worn during the Crimean War 28 Private John McDermond VC 47th Foot [later Loyal North Lancs] The portrait hangs in the Regimental Council Chamber 29 Presented to Captain Henry Gallwey Vice Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate [later Nigeria] 1892 30 The Kimberley Star 31 Pieter Hill. 1900 Boer War The 1st Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment’s final charge of Pieter Hill, during the relief of Ladysmith, 27 February 1900 . [from a painting by W B Wollen] Pieter Hill from a painting by J A Lamb, a private in the 32 Private of The East Lancashire Regiment, wearing the 1902 - 1913 pattern tunic 33 Drummer Spencer John Bent !St Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment 34 Drummer John (Joe ) Bent VC East Lancashire Regiment’s first WWI VC Pre 1914 Dress Uniform 35 Private Stanley Bewsher 11th Battallion East Lancashire Regiment ‘The Accrington Pals’ 36 ‘The Accrington Pals’ Sheffield Memorial Park. Serre 37 38 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinsion VC 7th Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Lieut Wilkinson won the Victoria Cross at La Boiselle on 5th July 1916 by stopping a German attack with a Maxim gun 39 The DUNKIRK DRUM 1st Battalion Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) side drum 40 Captain H M Ervine - Andrews of 1st Battalion the East Lancashire Regiment winning the Victoria Cross Dunkirk, 1940 41 Battle of the Fly-Over ANZIO 1944 (Found by the Friends of the Museum 2008) 42 2nd Battalion Loyal North Lancs MALAYSIA and KOREA 43 Sir Douglas Bairs 1940 - 1947 44 Loyal North Lancs in Malaya [Battalion Tracking Team] L/Cpl Bill Procter and dog Rufus (kneeling right) From the London Gazertte: The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the following recognition of Gallant and Distinguished Conduct in Malaya for the period 1 July to 31 December 1958. A/L/Cpl William Procter 23394977 Lower Barn Farm, Ribchester 45 Shirts worn by Sgt Dewhurst and Lt Scrase Members of The Lancashire Regiment (PWV) 1967 46 Returned to Britain by The Queens Lancashire Regiment 47 Playing cards 2nd IRAQ War 48 Regimental Drums and Colours Queens Lancashire Regiment 49 50 Lucas Kenny Wilkinson Readitt Clarke 1861 1915 1916 1917 1943 Smith Walker Davies Coury 1915 1854 1918 1916 Andrews Ratcliffe McDermond Bent 1940 1917 1854 1914 Horsfall Young Jones Sartorious 1918 1915 1916 1879 51 2006 The Kings Own Border Regiment The Queens Lancashire Regiment The Kings Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester) The Duke Of Lancaster Regiment 52 Colours of The DUKE of LANCASTER’S REGIMENT The Queen’s Colour The Regimental Colour.