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1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment were in Portsmouth at the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 serving with 9th Brigade, 3rd Division.
They proceeded to France witt the BEF, landing at Le Havre on the 14th of August 1914.
They saw action in The Battle of Mons and the rearguard action at Solesmes, The Battle of Le Cateau, The Battle of the Marne, The Battle of the Aisne, at La Bassee, Messines and the First Battle of Ypres. On the 14th of November 1915 the 1st Lincolns transferred to 62nd Brigade, 21st Division, who had suffered heavy casualties at at Loos. In 1916 They were in action in the Battles of The Somme, including The Battle of Morval in which the Division captured Geudecourt. In 1917 they were in action during The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, the Arras offensive, the Third Battles of Ypres and The Cambrai Operations. In 1918 they fought on The Somme then moved north and were in action during the Battles of the Lys,,the Battle of the Aisne, The Somme, the Battles of the Hindenburg Line and the Final Advance in Picardy. At the Armistice the Division were around Berlaimont, on the 12th they moved to Beaufort, then in mid December they moved west of Amiens and demobilisation began being completed by the 19th of May 1919.
5th August 1914 Mobilization
11th August 1914 Advance Party arrives
14th August 1914 Quartering Arrangements Completed
16th August 1914 Movement Orders
17th August 1914 On the Move
18th August 1914 On the Move
19th August 1914 Changes in quartering arrangements
20th August 1914 Changes in quartering arrangements
21st August 1914 Taking up stations in assigned areas.
22nd August 1914 Taking up stations in assigned areas.
23rd August 1914 German attack crosses Canal
24th August 1914 Withdrawals
25th August 1914 Ongoing Retirement
26th August 1914 In Action
26th August 1914 Retirement
26th August 1914 Ongoing Retirement
27th Aug 1914 Rear Guard
27th August 1914 Continued withdrawals
28th Aug 1914 Rear Guard
28th August 1914 Initial Intelligence Report
29th August 1914 Ongoing Retirement
30th August 1914 Demolitions on withdrawals
31st August 1914 Continued withdrawals
4th September 1914 Enemy across the Marne
6th September 1914 Attack Made
7th September 1914 Attack progressing
8th September 1914 Ongoing Battles
9th September 1914 Ongoing Action
10th September 1914 Davance
11th September 1914 Continued progress
12th September 1914 Bad Weather
13th September 1914 Strong Opposition
14th September 1914 Further Advance
15th September 1914 Shelling
16th September 1914 Difficulties
17th September 1914 Heavy Bombardment
18th September 1914 Night Attacks
19th September 1914 Attack Repulsed
20th September 1914 Ongoing Action
20th September 1914 Reliefs
21st September 1914 Attacks
22nd September 1914 Reliefs
23rd September 1914 Patrols
24th September 1914 Artillery Exchange
26th September 1914 Aircraft Assists
27th September 1914 Continuing action around bridges
28th September 1914 Bridges
29th September 1914 Ongoing fighting on all fronts
30th September 1914 September Intelligence Summary
1st October 1914 Commencement of Move
16th Oct 1914 Advance Continues
20th Oct 1914 Holding the Line
25th Oct 1914 In Action
30th Nov 1914 Reliefs
9th Dec 1914 Reliefs
18th Feb 1915 Reorganisation
21st Feb 1915 Misty Day 
22nd Feb 1915 Thick Mist
23rd Feb 1915 Infantry Make Attack
24th Feb 1915 Artillery Support
26th Feb 1915 Reliefs
27th Feb 1915 Conference
28th Feb 1915 Shelling
8th May 1915 Smokes in the trenches
20th May 1915 New Fellows in the Company
21st May 1915 Night Patrols
22nd May 1915 An Exchange of Grenades
14th Jun 1915 Communication
15th Jun 1915 Into Position
15th Jun 1915 On the March
16th Jun 1915 The Great Charge of the Lincolns
16th Jun 1915 Attack Made
16th Jun 1915 In Action
24th Jun 1915 Stranded after Attack
30th Jun 1915 5th Lincs into the Trenches
15th of July 1915 Reliefs
17th Sep 1915 Trench Work
27th of September 1915 Moving Again
23rd Oct 1915 A Remarkable Incident
1st Mar 1916 Shelling
2nd Mar 1916 Reliefs
3rd Mar 1916 Bombardment
4th Mar 1916 Shelling
5th Mar 1916 Sleet
6th Mar 1916 Observation Balloons
7th Mar 1916 Snow
8th Mar 1916 Aeroplanes Active
11th Jun 1915 Recce Made
12th Jun 1915 Recce
15th Jun 1915 Preparations
16th Jun 1915 Preparations
1st Jul 1916 Carrying Parties
2nd Jul 1916 In Touch
3rd Jul 1916 In Action
7th Sep 1916 Route March
1st Oct 1917 Preparations
2nd Oct 1917 Preparations
3rd Oct 1917 Preparations
4th Oct 1917 Attack Made
4th Oct 1917 Report
10th of April 1918 Into Battle
28th May 1918 Hard Fighting
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Those known to have served with1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Adlard Arthur. Pte. (d.12th Nov 1914)
- Atkinson Henry Edward. L/Cpl. (d.12th June 1915)
- Bainton Joseph. Pte.
- Baker William Arthur. Pte. (d.3rd Jul 1916)
- Barlow C. C. L.. Mjr.
- Bradford William. Pte. (d.19th Feb 1915)
- Bradley Alfred John. Pte. (d.24th Aug 1914)
- Brannan Alfred George. Pte. (d.12th April 1917)
- Chapman MM. Frank. Pte.
- Cocks Frederick Thomas. Pte. (d.11th Apr 1917)
- Colam Fred. L/Cpl.
- Colam Joseph James.
- Collins G. E.. Pte. (d.15th February 1915)
- Draper Frank. Pte. (d.11th Nov 1919)
- Duffin Charles. Pte. (d.19th June 1915)
- Featherstone George Stephen. Pte. (d.16th June 1915)
- Fensome Leonard. Pte. (d.16th April 1918)
- Fisher Bert. Pte. (d.3rd Jul 1916)
- Frank Hatchett W. Pte. (d.28th Aug 1914)
- Frith Harold Elijah. L/Sgt. (d.11th April 1917)
- Garbett William. Pte. (d.15th December 1915)
- Gibson Charles Hugh Langford. Sgt. (d.4th October 1917)
- Goldsworthy Albert Edward . Pte. (d.1st Nov 1914)
- Goodman John. Pte. (d.31st Jan 1916)
- Green Frederick George . CQMS. (d.28th Aug 1914)
- Griffiths Ellis. Pte. (d.19th Sep 1918)
- Grooby Albert. Pte. (d.4th Dec 1918)
- Hills Lawrence Clifford. 2nd Lt (d.3rd Jul 1916)
- Holroyd Alec Hill. L/Sgt. (d.15th Apr 1918)
- Knott John Henry. Pte. (d.2nd July 1916)
- Lawson George Harry. Pte. (d.21st Aug 1918)
- Lenton Walter . Pte. (d.16th April 1918)
- Macgouran Alfred George. Cpl. (d.30th Sep 1914)
- McQuaid John C.. Sgt.
- Mullin Cecil Frederick. Pte
- Norman Claude. Pte. (d.17th Oct 1914)
- Ogden MM. Robert. Sgt.
- Parrott Thomas. Pte. (d.8th Jun 1917)
- Perfett Frank William. Private
- Redden William. CSM. (d.14th September 1914)
- Riley Charles Horace. CSM.
- Robinson R.. Pte. (d.28th April 1915)
- Sleight Walter. Pte. (d.26th August 1914)
- Smith MM. Joseph. Sgt. (d.12th Apr 1917)
- Smith Walter George. Pte (d.11th April 1917)
- Staples Isaac James. Sgt.
- Taylor Henry. Sgt. (d.3rd July 1916)
- Thacker Charles Albert. Pte. (d.1st November 1914)
- Thacker Frederick Edward. Pte.
- Treherne William Henry. L/Cpl.
- Tuplin William Parish May. Pte. (d.29th October 1914)
- Twinn John Edward. Cpl. (d.3rd July 1916)
- Waghorn Charles Frederick. Pte (d.16th June 1917)
- Walker Horace. Pte. (d.29 October 1914)
- Wright Alfred. Pte (d.2nd Sep 1915)
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Pte. Alfred John Bradley 1st Btn. Royal Linconshire Regiment (d.24th Aug 1914)  Alfred Bradley had a tattoo of St George and the dragon on his chest. His hobby was boxing and his sparring partner was Billy Wells (the strong man who hit the gong in Rank film introduction). He was known for being friendly, practical, independent and liking country cottages.
Alfred ran away from home to join the British Army because he didn't get on with his stepfather Mr Hooper. Served in the Army in India 1898 - 1902; 1903 South Africa (burying the dead after the Boer War); 1904- 1910 India. Returned to England as a reserve and got work as a motor tyre repairer. He was married on 25th of Dec 1912 to Ada Hunt and thier son Alf was born in Sept 1913.
The 1st Lincolnshire Regiment was part of the 9th Brigade, 3rd Division. The Division left by sea on the SS Norman on 13 August 1914, for France, part of the original British Expeditionary Force. They disembarked at Le Havre on 14th August 1914.
They marched to Mons where they fought their first action on the 23rd but had to break off their engagement on the 24th and join what was a general retreat. On 24 August in Frameries they acted as a rearguard for the withdrawal of 9th Brigade.
The 24 August 1914 is believed to be the day that Alf Bradley died further to engaging the German forces.
The partial map of Frameries showing burial places of the English soldiers incl Pte Bradley. He died along with about 40 others the same day.
The army records his death as taking place at Marne on 8th Sept 1914 but friend and locals say he was killed on the 24th of August. A friend saw him buried in a garden by local peasants then. Local people made a map in 1915 which showed where the British soldiers were buried. In 1918 he was reburied by the army at Bezu-le-Guery communal cemetery near Chateau Thierry in a shared grave with other soldiers killed at around the same time. The date of death on the memorial stone is 8th Sept 1914, but the date of death on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records signed as checked in 1921 (after earlier versions of the document had been variously amended) record that this was a reburial from another place. The confusion about dates reflects the fast pace of action and loss at the time.
It's known that Alf's regiment fought in Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien's delaying action at Le Cateau and then joined the rest of the British Army as they fell back to the Marne Valley. On the night of the 7th of September 1914 the 1st Lincolns were in billets at the village of La Bretonniere which they left at 6am the following morning. At around 10.30am they had stopped to rest in a field near Bezu when their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Smith, received a message from Brigade informing him that 'a German battery was doing serious damage by shelling our column approaching the Marne.' Captain Drake, along with C and D Companies, worked their way through the woods to the west of Bezu and crept to within 150 yards of the guns before rushing forward and shooting down the German gunners and their escort almost to a man. When they dashed out of the thicket to secure the guns they were spotted by the 65th (Howitzer) Battery Royal Artillery who mistook them for Germans and opened fire on them. They were forced to seek cover and this burst of "friendly fire" cost the Lincolns casualties of one officer killed with three wounded and some thirty other ranks killed or wounded. Robert Drake was one of the officers wounded but he died later the same day.
This action tends to explain the choice of cemetery for the deaths in Bezu and those of the members of the regiment who had died in Frameries only days earlier.
   
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Pte. Hatchett W Frank 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.28th Aug 1914) Frank Hatchett enlisted in the Queens Regiment in July 1908 and then enlisted in April 1910 as 8878 Private Edward Locke in the 1st Battalion the Lincolnshire Regiment under which name he served during WW1. He died on the 28th August 1914 and is buried in St Quentin Northern Community Cemetery.
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Pte. William Arthur Baker 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.3rd Jul 1916) William Baker was the son of William Crane Baker and Sarah Chart. He was born in 1875 at Newport, Wales. He married Rose Annie Nicholls in 1895 and they had at least five children. Unfortunately, Rose passed away in 1908. Subsequently, he married Emma Rouse in 1909 and they had no children.
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Pte. Charles Duffin 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.19th June 1915) Charlie Duffin was born in 1894 in Hungerton, Lincolnshire. The son of Henry and Martha Duffin. He had eight brothers and six sisters. He served in 1st Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.
He died from his wounds on the 19th of June 1915 in France at the age of 21 and was laid to rest at Aeroplane Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium.
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Pte. Frederick Edward Thacker 1st Btn Lincolnshire Regiment Frederick Thacker was born on 5th of December 1879 in the Lincolnshire village of Edlington. His father was Edward Thacker and Sarah Ann Thacker, his mother, was a tailoress.
He was baptised in 1880 in Birmingham. A year later he was living at Seas End, Moulton, near Spalding in Lincolnshire with his mother, now a widow.
At the age of twenty-one Thacker, then employed as a farm labourer, enlisted with the Lincolnshire Regiment and training was undertaken at Hutment Barracks in Fleetwood, Lancashire.
By 1911 he was living at 2 Clayton Street, Grimsby and employed as a postman. At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 he enlisted as a Private with his former regiment the Lincolnshires and deployed with the 1st Battalion on 13th of September 1914. He landed in France the following day and his first major engagement was the First Battle of Ypres in October-November 1914.
Whilst on the Western Front he transferred to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment. For his involvement during the campaign he received the Victory Medal, British War Medal and the 1914 Mons Star.
It would appear he remained in the Army. An application was submitted for the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.
He died aged 74, in 1954, in Chelmsford, Essex.
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Sgt. Henry Taylor 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.3rd July 1916) Harry Taylor was my great uncle. He was a professional soldier but also a pipe and drummer. He was injured by losing his trigger finger and returned home to recover. Whilst at home he was approached to help run a training programme but refused. He said he could not take an easy option when his men were fighting.
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Pte. Walter Sleight 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.26th August 1914) Walter Sleight was part of the British Expeditionary Forces.
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CSM. Charles Horace Riley 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment My grandfather, Charles Riley was a Company Sergeant Major in the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. He fought in several of the battles of WW1. He volunteered in August 1914 when he was 23 years old.
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Pte. Claude Norman 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.17th Oct 1914) Claude Norman was born 14th October 1886 to William and Elizabeth. In 1913 he married Elsie Broughton in Wakefield.
He joined the Army and went to war with 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment on 13th of August 1914. Two months later, he was killed in action. He was awarded a victory medal or British war medal.
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Pte. Leonard Fensome 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.16th April 1918) Leonard Fensome served with the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment in WW1. He married Clara Indge in Apr/May/June 1917 at Leighton Buzzard, Beds.
They had a son, Norman Leonard Fensome, born 1918 but this child never got to meet his father.
Leonard died 16th of April 1918 and has no known grave. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial Panel 35 to 37, Belgium.
After the war, Clara re-married. Her son Norman had son, Raymond Leonard Fensome.
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Pte. William Garbett 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.15th December 1915) William Garbett was a coal miner and worked at Warsop Main Colliery in Nottinghamshire. He was married to Beatrice Hodgkinson and fathered three children. At the outbreak of WW1 he enlisted at Mansfield and served with the 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment.
William's wife died in October 1914, leaving three very young children to be looked after by Billy's Mother, Sarah.
William Garbett lost his life when the trench he was working in was hit by German shell fire, on 15th of December 1915. He was aged 33 years and is buried in Houplines Community Cemetery Extension in France. Unfortunately his name on his headstone as been etched as Garbutt.
The three children were brought up by their Grandmother Garbett.
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Pte Charles Frederick Waghorn 1st Btn Lincolnshire Regiment (d.16th June 1917) Charles Waghorn served with the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment in WW1. He died 16th of June 1917 and is buried Bailleul Road East Cemetery at St Laurent-Blangy where he has a Special Memorial stating he is Buried near this spot.
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Pte. Frederick Thomas Cocks 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.11th Apr 1917) Thomas Cocks died 11th Apr 1917. He is buried in Wancourt British Cemetery in France.
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CSM. William Redden 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.14th September 1914) William Redden was the first husband of my Great Aunt Harriet, on my father's side. He joined the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1901 and died in the Battle of The Aisne. His memorial can be found in La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre. He was born in Holbech, Lincolnshire in 1883.
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Pte. Bert Fisher 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.3rd Jul 1916) My Grandfather, Bert Fisher joined the army in August 1914 and served from then until his death in France.
I know that he worked for a Col. Cheaney, who lived in Whimple, Devon.
His death, as with so many others, had a catastrophic effect upon my mother's family.
I think that he was a drover, but beyond that know nothing about him.
Granpa I salute you.
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Joseph James Colam 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment Joseph Colam served with the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.
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L/Cpl. Fred Colam 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment Fred Colam served with the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.
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Sgt. Charles Hugh Langford Gibson 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.4th October 1917) Charles Gibson served with the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing.
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L/Sgt. Harold Elijah Frith 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.11th April 1917) Harold Frith was killed in action on 11th of April 1917 and buried initially in the Lincoln Cemetery, St Martin Sur Cojeul, 8km south-east of Arras, France alongside 21 comrades killed on the same day. He was reburied after the Armistice in the nearby British Cemetery, Wancourt.
He was born on 22nd October 1893 in Rowston, Lincolnshire. His father, Robert, was a shepherd.
Harold was the 6th child (12 in all) of Robert Frith (1862-1930) and Mary Ann Simpson Wainfer (1866-1939) of Hemingby, Lincolnshire and Wrangle, Lincolnshire respectively.
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Sgt. Isaac James Staples 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment My grandfather, Isaac Staples had been born in or near Spalding, Lincs, and moved to Portsmouth prior to embarkation for WW1. He met and married my grandmother, Emily May Steptoe, and set up home in Portsmouth. Whether this was during WW1 or immediately after is unclear.
He was seemingly gassed in WW1, whereabouts unknown and possibly invalided out of the service.
He had 2 sons, James and William, in 1926 and 1928 respectively. I know very little of my Grandfather, he passed away when my father was 2. Both my father and his elder brother have also passed away now.
My father would never eat mustard, and would not talk of reasons why. My grandmother never married again and raised her sons single handed through the 1930's. In 1940, due to war damage, the family moved to Gosport, which was my home town.
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