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The Lincoln and Welland Regiment

[1936-present]
© DND
Ontario, Canada  
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons
  Badges and Uniforms

  Colonel-in-Chief
  Honorary Colonels
 Traditions
 Alliances
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time Reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage
1936.12.15 The Lincoln and Welland Regiment
formed at St. Catharines by amalgamation of The Lincoln Regiment, and The Lincoln and Welland Regiment
 
  • A Company at Niagara Falls
  • B Company at Niagara Falls
  • C Company at Fort Erie
  • D Company at St. Catharines
1940 reorganised for war:
  • 1st Battalion, mobilised 15 Aug. 1940 in CASF; disbanded 15 Feb. 1946
  • 2nd Battalion, formed in Reserve Army
1946.04? reconstituted in Militia
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
The Lincoln and Welland Regiment (Regimental site) by Alan D. Woolley
The Lincoln and Welland Regiment, by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
History of the Regiment, by Alan D. Woolley
History of The Lincoln and Welland Regiment (Museum site)
The Lincoln and Welland Regiment, by Colin Stevens.
   
Cadets:
Cadets, by Alan D. Woolley
1st Battalion Deployment and Service:
 
Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
  1939.09.01 details mobilised for local protective duty  
  1939.12 demobilised  
       
1940.08.15 mobilised
  1940.08 Niagara Peninsula 13 Inf Bde
  1941 British Columbia: Nanaimo training
1941.09.28 Newfoundland: Gander Airport
  1942.05 St. Johns  
1943.05.07 ?
1943.07.16 at sea
1943.07 UK
  1943.08.19 UK 10 Inf Bde, 4 Can Armd Div
1944.07.16 France: Normandy 10 Inf Bde, 4 Can Armd Div
1944.07 NW Europe 10 Inf Bde, 4 Can Armd Div
1945.05 Germany
  1946.01 at sea
  1946.01.29 Canada: St. Catharines
1945.02.15 disbanded at St. Catharines
       
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external sites have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
[no external sites have been found]
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
The Lincoln and Welland Regimental Museum, Niagara-on-the-Lake (Museum site)
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

[combined battle honours of The Lincoln Regiment, and The Lincoln and Welland Regiment, with the following emblazoned:] Ypres 1915 '17, Somme 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Amiens, Pursuit to Mons

[plus:]

The Second World War: Falaise, Falaise Road, The Laison, Chambois, The Seine 1944, Moerbrugge, The Scheldt, Breskens Pocket, The Lower Maas, Kapelsche, Veer, The Rhineland, The Hochenwald, Veen, Twente Canal, Friesoythe, Küsten Canal1, Bad Zwischenahn1, North-West Europe1944-45

1. belatedly awarded Oct. 1995
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

The Regimental Colours, by Alan D. Woolley [internet archive]
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges: Armorial Description: Within an annulus bearing the words LINCOLN & WELLAND, an escallop; below, a scroll inscribed NON NOBIS SED PATRIAE; the whole surmounted by the Crown.
Uniform: scarlet; facings: blue
   
   
     
   
  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
2004.10.13 HRH The Princess Sophie, Countess of Wessex
  Honorary Colonels
1936 Maj-Gen. Charles Rudyerd Simpson, CB
[from Lincoln Regt; also Lincolnshire Regt]
  Gen. Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, GBE, KCB, DSO, MC, DL
[also CinC 2nd Army, 14th Army, ALFSEA. Middle East; Col. Cmdt. RMP; Col. Royal Berkshire Regt, SAS; Hon. Col. 21st SAS]
19uu Col. Edward W. Tyrrill, CD, QC
19uu Col. George R. Greer, ED, CD
19uu Col. James Fletcher Swayze, DSO, CD, QC
19uu Col.Charles Donald Muir, CD
19uu Col. Alan R. Earp, OC, CD
19uu Col. Ronald William Yorke, CD
<2004> Col. Ian A. Purdie, CD, ADC
  Traditions
 
Motto: Non nobis sed patriae
Nicknames: the Lincs; the Lincs and Winks
Anniversaries: Regimental Birthday (6 June [1792 Lincoln Militia]); Bergen-op-Zoom (Sunday nearest 28 Oct.)
Freedoms: St. Catharines, Welland, Niagara Falls, Fort Erie, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Queenston
Marches: The Lincolnshire Poacher
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances Introduction to Alliances

The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

1936-1960
1936-1959
1959-1994
1960-1964
1964-present
1994-present
1954-1960
1967-present
1964-1999
The Wellington (City of Wellington) and Hawke's Bay Regiment 1999-present
1965-present
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
Rogers, Robert Louis. History of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment. [Ottawa? : s.n.], 1954.
Rogers, Robert Louis. History of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment. [reprint] [Ottawa? : s.n.], 1979.
   
Second World War:
Hayes, Geoffrey William. The Lincs : a history of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment at war. Alma, Ont. : Maple Leaf Route, 1986. ISBN: 0919907059
Hayes, Geoffrey William. The friction of war a study of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment, 1940-1945. Thesis (M.A.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 1985. [available from National Library of Canada, Ottawa, 1986; 3 microfiches (261 fr.); Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes; ISBN: 0315231807]
 
Special Topics:
Kipp, Charles D. (Charles Disbrowe) ; Sykes, Linda. Because we are Canadians : a battlefield memoir. Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 2002. ISBN: 1550549553 [WW2 autobiography]