Lincolnshire Regiment

Dates Locations Higher Formation/Remarks
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. 4th Battalion, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment .
1947.01.01 Reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at Lincoln 147 (Midland) Lorried Infantry Brigade
1950.07.01 Re-organised as 4th/6th Battalion, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment by absorbing duplicate 6th Battalion 147 (Midland) Lorried Infantry Brigade
1960.06.01 Transferred to the corps of 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) .
1964.09.01 Transferred to the corps of The Royal Anglian Regiment .
1967.04.01 Disbanded and concurrently reconstituted as two units: .
. Part of 2nd (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) Company, 5th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, formed in TAVR II at Lincoln .
. The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (Territorials) formed in TAVR III with HQ at Lincoln, absorbing 863 (County of Lincoln) Movement Light Squadron RE .
. A Company at Lincoln .
. B Company at Gainsborough .
. C Company at Boston .
1969.01.01 TAVR III element reduced to cadre as The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment at Lincoln, sponsored by 5th (V) Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment .
1971.04.01 Reorganised as two companies: .
. Part of 2nd (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) Company, 5th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, at Lincoln .
. A (Royal Lincolnshire) Company, 7th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment reconstituted from cadre at Scunthorpe with detachments at Gainsborough and Grimsby .
1978 2 Company at Lincoln (with plns at Gainsborough and Boston) redesignated as B (Lincolnshire) Company, 7th Battalion absorbing elements A Company .
1992.04.01 A (Royal Lincolnshire) Company, 7th (V) Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment reduced to one coy at Lincoln with pls at Grimsby and Boston, amalgamation of old A Company and B Company, less some elements to form 147 Port and Reclamation Company, REME .
1999.07.01 B (Lincolnshire) Company, The East of England Regiment at Lincoln with 4 Pln at Grimsby, redesignation of A Company .
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