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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