Eagle-eyed readers will note duplicate names in the list of Lincolnshire Regiment other ranks, below.
The information regarding NCOs and men serving with the Lincolnshire Regiment who became prisoners of war before 25th December 1914 is taken from two Imperial War Museum sources:
- B.O.2 1/233 which is a ten-page typed document sent by the Lincolnshire Regiment Prisoners of war Care Committee and dated 21st December 1918.
- B.O.2 1/234 which is a six-page typed document date-stamped 17th January 1919
There are discrepancies in some forename initials (which could just as well be my typos as they could be errors made at the time) and in some ranks. A check of medal index cards would no doubt get to the truth quickly enough.
These original entries may also include other information which I have not included here such as battalion, home address, next of kin and next of kin address.
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8292 Private J Ainger
6011 Sergeant C Atkinson
6011 Sergeant C Atkinson
7226 Private C H Bailey
7226 Private C Bailey
5476 Private J Baines
7610 Private J W Baker
7352 Private Arthur W Barber
7552 Private B Barefoot
7552 Corporal B Barefoot
9319 Lance-Corporal J Barlow
9319 Private J Barlow
6865 Corporal C Barnes
6865 Corporal C P Barnes
6888 Private W Barrell
6888 Private W A Barrell
6718 Private C G Barton
8145 Private C A Beare
7180 Private G Bell
7636 Private W H Beverley
7915 Private F Blackburn
7915 Private F P Blackburn
8835 Private J F Blagden
9242 Private J Boon
7102 Private E Boyall
7565 Private W Bradley
9478 Private J Brightman
9022 Private A Bristow
9022 Private A Bristowe
7550 Private Frederick William Brooks
6956 Private G Brown
7855 Private J Brown
7855 Lance-Corporal J W C Brown
7850 Private B Buzzard
7850 Private B Buzzard
6490 Private J Campbell
7389 Private W Cannon
7389 Private W Canon
8042 Private W Carden
8042 Private W R Carden
7331 Sergeant F Cargill
7331 Sergeant F Cargill
9579 Private S Challis
9579 Private S F Challis
7119 Private W Chatterton
9503 Private F Clare
7452 Private F W Clarke
7425 Private R Clarke
6337 Private R F Clarke
6337 Private Richard Clarke
6430 Private R Coldron
6430 Private R Coldron
7443 Drummer J Colebrook
9670 Private H Collins
9351 Private F Conner
8012 Private F Cooper
6512 Private G W Cooper
9467 Private T Crilley
8745 Private P Crimper
7193 Private F J Cuzner
9294 Private P Davidson
7040 Private M Dennison
7569 Private Albert William Didwell
7569 Drummer W Didwell
4986 Private W Dobbs
6986 Private William Dobbs
6933 Private J Downward
7945 Private W G Ducker
7495 Private William Ducker
7777 Sergeant W Duffey
9624 Private A Evans
8724 Private E Fawcett
8724 Private E W Fawcett
5962 Lance-Corporal R Ferguson
5962 Private R Ferguson
6392 Private J Foss
7571 Private J W Fowler
14054 Sergeant H Gent
9238 Lance-Corporal J W Gibbs
9238 Private J W Gibbs
7178 Private T Gresham
6161 Private A Grooby
6161 Private A Groony
6815 Private F C Hall
8748 Lance-Corporal H Hare
8748 Private H A W Hare
9610 Private C T Harris
6184 Private F C Harston
8027 Lance-Corporal A Harvey
8027 Private A Harvey
7887 Private A Henley
9486 Private T Herbert
8031 Private A Hill
7673 Drummer A Hobbs
7673 Private A Hobbs
5365 Private J N Hollingsworth
5365 Lance-Corporal Hollingworth
6866 Private E Hootch
6866 Lance-Corporal E Hooton
6444 Private H Horry
8545 Drummer A Hughes
8545 Private A W Hughes
6495 Private W Humphreys
6495 Lance-Corporal J Humphries
7005 Private H Hunt
7005 Private H Hunt
7163 Private W Idle
9119 Private B Jackson
5294 Sergeant C T Jackson
5294 Private C T Jackson
7190 Private J Jackson
7787 Private J Jackson
9119 Private J Jackson
3795 Private W Jeans
9645 Lance-Corporal F Jessop
9635 Lance-Corporal Frank Forman Jessop
9252 Private G W Johnson
9654 Private H Johnson
9654 Private H Johnson
4685 CSM A E Jones
7282 Private J Kendall
7270 Private J Key
7108 Sergeant H C Kingdom
7108 Sergeant H Kingdon
5421 Private L Kirby
7533 Private Carl Lenz
6999 Private J W Lewis
6300 Private W Lewis
9480 Private R Lindsay
9480 Private R R Lindsay
8671 Private S Lovelock
6186 Corporal G Lowe
6186 Private G Lowe
7535 Lance-Corporal F Lowery
7535 Private T W Lowery
9427 Private R Lynn
6925 Private John Maguire
7827 Private M Maltby
7827 Private M S Maltby
7822 Sergeant C Mann
7822 Corporal C D Mann
6860 Private P Marshall
7802 Private C Mawer
7802 Private G H Mawer
6925 Private J McGuire
8817 Corporal J Mealing
8817 Sergeant T Mealing
7599 Lance-Corporal J Merryweather
7599 Private J Merryweather
6400 Private F J Metcalf
6400 Private T Metcalfe
7612 Corporal F C Millington
7816 Private J Mitchell
7904 Private F C Monk
7137 Lance-Corporal H Morgan
7137 Private H Morgan
7223 Private J Morley
7223 Private J Morly
9465 Private H Morris
9465 Private Henry Pritchard Morris
7763 Private P Morris
7763 Private Percy John Morris
5287 Private W H Morris
5287 Private William Henry Morris
9159 Private D Morse
9159 Lance-Corporal D B Morse
5417 Private D Muir
5417 Private P Muir
6922 Private P Mulholland
9513 Private H Newell
9513 Private H L Newell
8188 Private J Newell
4991 Private G Osborne
7527 Private J Parkinson
6474 Drummer J Parsons
6474 Private J Parsons
7363 Lance-Corporal C L Peart
8019 Private B Pellett
9097 Private J W Perkins
8019 Lance-Corporal B Pettett
3947 CSM C F Phillips
7709 Private H G Phillips
6901 Private J Popple
7416 Private H Potter
8654 Private G Rampling
5479 Private H Raynor
6208 Private A Redford
6807 Private A Reed
6807 Private W Reed
6035 Lance-Corporal A Reid
6035 Private A Reid
7093 Private E Robinson
7069 Corporal J B Robinson
7093 Private L Robinson
9606 Private J R Rudkin
6941 Private J W Rusling
6941 Private W Rusling
6219 Private T Ryan
7704 Private T W Scott
7704 Private T W Scott
4291 Lance-Corporal W Seale
4291 Private W Seale
7907 Private F Shaw
9645 Private G Simmons
7231 Private H Simpson
7449 Private W Simpson
7875 Lance-Corporal W Simpson
7449 Private W J Simpson
7110 Private W Slater
7110 Private William Slater
8037 Bandsman H Smalley
8037 Private H Smalley
7466 Sergeant C Smith
7648 Bandsman F Smith
7466 Sergeant F Smith
7648 Private F Smith
8376 Private H Southwick
8593 Private J E Stephenson
8176 Private A J Stiff
5787 Private J W Stow
5041 Private Joseph Stringer
8962 Private C Stubbs
8962 Private C W Stubbs
6471 Private E Summersgill
6826 Private F Tacey
6367 Private H Thompson
7851 Private C T Tindall
5399 Lance-Corporal H Tomison
5399 Corporal H Tomison
8536 Private W H Tow
9470 Private E Towl
7280 Lance-Corporal E Townsend
4673 Private C Tuckwood
7111 Private H Uttley
8673 Private William Wallace
7540 Private W Waller
7540 Private William Waller
7293 Corporal G Waring
9457 Private W Watts
9457 Private William Watts
9468 Private W Westall
9468 Private William Westall
7397 Private H Wilkinson
7397 Private H J Wilkinson
6806 Private F Williams
6794 Private F Williams
6806 Private F T Williams
7436 Private W Woodhouse
7436 Private W C Woodhouse
4923 Private J Woolley
4923 CSM J Woolley
7578 Private C J Wormall
7578 Sergeant Charles James Wormall
5585 Private W Wormall
5585 Sergeant William M Wormall
7543 Private T Wright
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This post will look at numbering in the Lincolnshire Regiment service battalions in 1914 and 1915. The battalions in question then, are the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th (Service) Battalions and the information below comes from a study of Lincolnshire Regiment service records and pension records in the WO 363 and WO 364 series respectively, held at the National Archives in London.
As I mentioned in an earlier post on numbering in the regular battalions of the Lincolnshire Regiment it looks to me as though the regiment had reached around 9762 when Great Britain declared war on Germany. The 6th (Service) Battalion was the first New Army Lincolnshire Regiment battalion to be formed (in August 1914) and it was followed by the 7th and 8th (Service) Battalions in September 1914, and the 9th (Service) Battalion in November 1914.
Men joining the service battalions were given numbers from the same series that had been in use by the regular battalions.
c9763 to 107**
Issue of these numbers dates to August 1914 and therefore, by definition, mostly to men joining the 6th Battalion.
108** to 119**
A mixture of August and September 1914 joining dates, with 7th Battalion numbering commencing in the 109**s and 8th Battalion numbering commencing in the 118**s. Note however, that there do not appear to have been distinct blocks allocated for a particular battalion. Hypothetically therefore, 11801 could have been issued to an 8th Battalion man, 11802 to a 7th Battalion man, and 11803 to a 6th Battalion man.
120** to 133**
September and October 1914 joining dates with the vast majority of these issued in September. From my research, there appear to have been very few October 1914 enlistments, presumably because the 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions had reached establishment by then and the 9th Battalion had yet to be formed.
134** to 138**
November 1914.
139** to 142**
Back to September 1914. From my research, men with numbers in this range had previously served with the Leicestershire Regiment, attesting in late August or early September 1914. They were then transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment in September 1914; most of the men on my database transferring on the 8th and 9th September. Interestingly, some of these transferees were initially transferred to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion (which at that time was still using its own series of numbers) and so it is common to see men with three numbers on their attestation papers: their original Leicestershire Regiment number, their Lincolnshire Regiment special reserve number and their Lincolnshire Regiment service battalion number. Numbering in the Lincolnshire Special Reserve certainly leapt from 8435 on 4th September 1914 to 9124 on 7th September 1914 and these Leicestershire Regiment transferees must have accounted for a lot of these numbers.
143**
November and December 1914
144** to 146**
December 1914
147** to 151**
January 1915
152** to 155**
February 1915
156** to 161**
March 1915
162** to 164**
April 1915
165** to 168**
May 1915
I have a 169** appearing in April 1915 and then nothing currently for numbers in the range 170** to 179**.
180**
May and June 1915
181** to 182**
June 1915
183** to 185**
July 1915
186**
July and August 1915
187**
August 1915
188*
August and September 1915
189** to 190**
October 1915
191**
November 1915
192**
Nothing currently on my database for numbers in this range
193**
December 1915
I'll extend this series into 1916 and beyond when I have significant additional information to include.
Also see my other posts regarding the Lincolnshire Regiment:
The 1st & 2nd Battalions, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The 4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The 5th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The Lincolnshire Regiment - 10th Battalion - Grimsby Chums
Donald Banks - A Lincolnshire Terrier
And also:
The Lincolnshire Yeomanry
View Lincolnshire Regiment service records, pension records and medal index cards on-line via the Ancestry.co.uk website
The Naval & Military Press has re-published the HISTORY OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT 1914-1918 and has this to say about the book:
"When war broke out in August 1914 the Lincolnshire Regiment consisted of two Regular, one Special Reserve and two Territorial battalions; during the course of the war a further 14 battalions were raised including a Labour Battalion (12th). Ten went on active service, all on the Western Front, one of them (6th) was also at Gallipoli. This volume gives an account of the doings of those ten battalions, concluding with the Roll of Honour of the officers, arranged in alphabetical order but without identifying battalion, and then the WOs, NCOs and Men, listed in alphabetical order but by battalions. A third appendix contains the list of Honours and Awards, also listed alphabetically but without dates or reference to battalion. This section of the book takes up 106 pages. There is a very short index which does at least feature each battalion, making up for the lack of such references in the contents, so you can find the battalion you are looking for. The total dead amounted to 8,800; three VCs were won and 58 Battle Honours awarded.
"This history has been compiled, principally, from War Diaries of battalions in the field, supplemented by the notes of officers who read the original draft, as well as by reference to despatches and to official and other records. The contents are arranged in chronological order in a series of nine parts, each covering a specific period in the war and describing the actions of the various battalions engaged. It reads easily, and when describing battles or engagements it mentions personalities and gives casualty figures incurred. Books like this are published primarily for those who served in the regiment, and so there should be plenty of names which not only served at the time to keep the memory fresh but also provide a bonus for those engaged in historical or genealogical research."
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The 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment was a Territorial Force Battalion formed on 1st April 1908 out of the embers of the old 3rd Volunteer Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
In early 1914, the distribution of battalion headquarters and the eight companies was as follows: HQ and A and B Companies at Grimsby, C Company at Spilsby, D Company at Louth, E Company at Barton, F Company at Alford, G Company at Frodingham, and H Company at Gainsborough. (Courtesy Ray Westlake's The Territorial Force 1914).
Here are some army service numbers and corresponding joining dates for the 5th Lincolns:
480 joined on 28th April 1908
716 joined on 5th March 1909
1075 joined on 10th May 1910
1175 joined on 12th January 1911
1359 joined on 19th March 1912
1520 joined on 24th February 1913
1723 joined on 19th March 1914
1785 joined on 3rd August 1914
2851 joined on 9th September 1914
3031 joined on 1st October 1914
3331 joined on 11th November 1914
3624 joined on 19th January 1915
3681 joined on 9th February 1915
3736 joined on 15th March 1915
3847 joined on 14th April 1915
4130 joined on 18th May 1915
4204 joined on 15th June 1915
4292 joined on 22nd July 1915
4330 joined on 10th August 1915
4415 joined on 6th September 1915
4435 joined on 11th October 1915
4484 joined on 6th November 1915
4553 joined on 28th December 1915
4580 joined on 26th January 1916
4786 joined on 8th February 1916
4908 joined on 7th March 1916
5479 joined on 10th May 1916
My data becomes thinner from here on in and numbering patterns are less reliable. By the end of 1916 however, the battalion was numbering in the 6200s (6265 joined on 31st December 1916). When the Territorial Force was re-numbered in 1917, men from the 5th Lincolns were re-numbered within the series 240001 to 265000. Here are some sample numbers and dates from this series:
240001 originally joined on 1st April 1908
240044 originally joined on 12th January 1911
240113 originally joined on 1st July 1912
240194 originally joined on 26th November 1913
240229 originally joined on 8th April 1908
240262 originally joined on 7th August 1914
240418 originally joined on 2nd September 1914
240689 originally joined on 2nd October 1914
240865 originally joined on 23rd November 1914
240933 originally joined on 9th February 1915
240977 originally joined on 25th March 1915
241077 originally joined on 7th May 1915
241164 originally joined on 8th June 1915
241233 originally joined on 22nd July 1915
241273 originally joined on 30th August 1915
241310 originally joined on 5th November 1915
241365 originally joined on 26th January 1916
241530 originally joined on 8th February 1916
241785 originally joined on 10th May 1916
242057 originally joined on 3rd October 1916
242219 originally joined on 31st December 1916
Number 1, Number 2 and Number 3 Supernumerary Companies were also attached to the 5th Lincolns (and there may have been other supernumerary companies as well) but the numbers issued to men joining these companies were from the same series as those issued to the regular 5th Battalion men - at least initially. Thus 46 year old Alfred Dows who attested with Number 1 and Number 2 Supernumerary Companies (attached to the 2/5th Lincolns) on 10th May 1915 was given the number 3954 which, if you consult the first list above, falls correctly between these numbers/dates:
3847 who joined on 14th April 1915 and 4130 who joined on 18th May 1915
However, Alfred transferred (and the word "transferred" appears on his service record rather than "posted") to Number 3 Supernumerary Company on 4th September 1915 and was given a new five digit number: 20270. This is an entirely new numbering series which was probably introduced around June/July 1915 for men joining the supernumerary companies attached to the 5th Lincolns.
Incidentally Alfred, who had joined the National Reserve, was an old soldier who had originally enlisted with the Border Regiment in March 1889, transferring to the Lincolnshire Regiment that same November. He saw service in East India and Singapore before being discharged medically unfit in June 1894. He would later be discharged from his supernumerary company duties in November 1915 for the same reason.
Also see my other posts regarding the Lincolnshire Regiment:
The 1st & 2nd Battalions, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The 4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The Lincolnshire Regiment - Service Battalions
The Lincolnshire Regiment - 10th Battalion - Grimsby Chums
Donald Banks - A Lincolnshire Terrier
And also:
The Lincolnshire Yeomanry
View Lincolnshire Regiment service records, pension records and medal index cards on-line via the Ancestry.co.uk website
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The superb, undated photograph above is re-published here courtesy of Mike Briggs and shows men of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment probably around 1907 or 1908. Follow the discussion about this photograph via the Great War Forum and click on it for a larger version.
In early 1914, the distribution of battalion headquarters and the eight companies that comprised the 4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment was as follows: HQ and A, E and H Companies at Lincoln, B Company at Grantham, C Company at Boston, D Company at Stamford, F Company at Spalding, and G Company at Horncastle. (Courtesy Ray Westlake's The Territorial Force 1914).
If only numbering in the 4th Lincolnshire Regiment was as straightforward.
The battalion was born in April 1908 out of the old 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions of the Lincolnshire Regiment. Prior to 1908 there had been three Lincolnshire Regiment Volunteer battalions and the County Association now decided that the new 4th (Territorial Force) Battalion would be comprised of men from the City of Lincoln and Horncastle districts of the old 1st Volunteer Battalion, and an area in the south of the county from which the old 2nd Volunteer Battalion had formerly recruited.
There appear to have been at least two numbering sequences running and I'm guessing that one sequence was used for the Lincoln/Horncastle men and one for men from the south of the county. These two number series certainly appear to have been in use up until 1909/1910; how else to explain this pattern from 1909 (and noting at the same time, that number 731 had been issued in December 1908):
1094 joined on 22nd January
1260 joined on 3rd March
321 joined on 3rd June
756 joined on 22nd September
1274 joined on 1st October
From 1910 the numbering appears to follow a more logical, sequential path and so I’ll start the army service numbers and corresponding joining dates from here. Please contact me though, if you can shed any light on numbering in the 4th Lincolns in 1908 and 1909.
150 joined on 11th April 1910
396 joined on 17th January 1911
1293 joined on 8th March 1912
1792 joined on 5th February 1913
2003 joined on 19th February 1914
2186 joined on 4th August 1914 (the day Britain went to war with Germany)
2814 joined on 24th September 1914
2944 joined on 13th October 1914
3251 joined on 9th November 1914
3480 joined on 2nd December 1914
3501 joined on 12th January 1915
3572 joined on 22nd February 1915
3589 joined on 4th March 1915
3652 joined on 9th April 1915
3788 joined on 10th May 1915
4426 joined on 12th June 1915
4560 joined on 2nd July 1915
4621 joined on 16th August 1915
4646 joined on 20th September 1915
4659 joined on 1st October 1915
4942 joined on 24th November 1915
4996 joined on 3rd December 1915
5076 joined on 13th January 1916
5386 joined on 21st February 1916
5447 joined on 1st March 1916
5598 joined on 27th April 1916
5693 joined on 12th May 1916
5823 joined on 3rd June 1916
6023 joined on 20th July 1916
6311 joined on 1st August 1916
6323 joined on 1st September 1916
6881 joined on 27th October 1916
6898 joined on 2nd November 1916
When the Territorial Force re-numbered in 1917, the 4th Lincolns were allocated numbers in the range 200001 – 240000. Here are some sample numbers and joining dates for this range of numbers.
200007 originally joined on 8th April 1908
200009 originally joined on 3rd June 1909
200015 originally joined on 29th December 1910
200017 originally joined 17th January 1911
200116 originally joined on 16th April 1912
200179 originally joined on 18th February 1913
200263 originally joined 19th February 1914
200362 originally joined on 5th August 1914
200659 originally joined on 2nd October 1914
200850 originally joined on 10th November 1914
201033 originally joined on 28th January 1915
201058 originally joined on 22nd February 1915
201072 originally joined on 4th March 1915
201106 originally joined on 9th April 1915
201212 originally joined on 14th May 1915
201606 originally joined on 28th June 1915
201646 originally joined on 16th August 1915
201665 originally joined on 20th September 1915
201716 originally joined on 25th October 1915
201808 originally joined on 24th November 1915
201830 originally joined on 6th December 1915
201879 originally joined on 20th January 1916
202093 originally joined on 21st February 1916
202148 originally joined on 3rd March 1916
202179 originally joined on 27th April 1916
202218 originally joined on 12th May 1916
202308 originally joined on 3rd June 1916
202387 originally joined on 20th July 1916
202547 originally joined 1st August 1916
202555 originally joined 1st September 1916
202847 originally joined on 27th October 1916
202865 originally joined 2nd November 1916
Note that the same idiosyncracies that appear in the original TF series for this battalion, appear to repeat in the six digit series - for early enlistments at least. Thus 200040 was not issued after January 1911 (as one might suppose on looking at the series above) but in December 1908 to a man whose original number was in the 700s.
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Prior to the creation of the Special Reserve in 1908, the Lincolnshire Regiment had two militia battalions, the 3rd and 4th. The 3rd Battalion was converted into the 3rd (Special) Reserve Battalion and the 4th Battalion was disbanded.
Here are some army service numbers and corresponding joining dates for the 3rd Special Reserve Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment, (which continued with the numbering system previously used by the 3rd Militia Battalion).
6611 joined on 19th December 1908
6665 joined on 4th January 1909
6932 joined on 13th June 1910
7098 joined on 12th July 1911
7379 joined on 27th November 1912
7445 joined on 22nd March 1913
7534 joined on 16th April 1914
7679 joined on 8th August 1914
8338 joined on 1st September 1914
9353 joined on 1st October 1914
9474 is currently the last number on my database for the 3rd Lincolnshire Regiment, and this man joined on 29th October 1914.
Also see my other posts regarding the Lincolnshire Regiment:
The 1st & 2nd Battalions, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The 4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The 5th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The Lincolnshire Regiment - Service Battalions
The Lincolnshire Regiment - 10th Battalion - Grimsby Chums
Donald Banks - A Lincolnshire Terrier
And also:
The Lincolnshire Yeomanry
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There are over 42,000 Lincolnshire Regiment service and pension records (for this regiment - and its antecedents) in various War
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service record collection.
Prior to 1st July 1881, the Lincolnshire Regiment was the 10th Regiment of Foot. It started a new regimental number series from this date, some samples from which I list below. Use this list as a guide to determine when your own ancestor might have joined this regiment - but note that this list is for regular enlistments only. Special Reserve and Territorial Force battalions operated their own distinct regimental number series.
Here are some sample army service numbers and corresponding joining dates for the (Regular) 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Lincolnshire Regiment.
124 joined on 13th October 1881
329 joined on 28th August 1882
584 joined on 2nd September 1883
918 joined on 5th November 1884
1364 joined on 18th October 1885
1620 joined on 15th October 1886
1959 joined on 15th June 1887
2168 joined on 9th May 1888
2362 joined on 14th June 1889
2480 joined on 8th January 1890
2700 joined on 12th February 1891
3129 joined on 16th June 1892
3490 joined on 23rd January 1893
3860 joined on 29th January 1894
4133 joined on 23rd March 1895
4506 joined on 30th January 1896
4720 joined on 1st May 1897
4916 joined on 4th January 1898
5305 joined on 24th March 1899
5584 joined on 26th January 1900
5839 joined on 15th February 1901
6078 joined on 27th January 1902
6310 joined on 19th January 1903
7030 joined on 16th May 1904
7561 joined on 31st May 1905
7700 joined on 20th February 1906
7886 joined on 7th January 1907
8411 joined on 27th January 1908
8615 joined on 13th January 1909
8902 joined on 9th April 1910
9198 joined on 9th August 1911
9455 joined on 12th October 1912
9607 joined on 23rd June 1913
9745 joined on July 6th 1914
As far as I can work out, the Lincolnshire Regiment had reached around 9762 by the time Britain declared war on Germany on 4th August 1914. The service battalions which began forming shortly afterwards, then followed the same numbering sequence that the regular battalions had maintained since 1881, and over the next four and a half years there was no distinction in numbering between men who enlisted for wartime service only and those who enlisted as career soldiers for Seven and Five.
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Also see my other posts regarding the Lincolnshire Regiment:
The 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The 4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The 5th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
The Lincolnshire Regiment - Service Battalions
The Lincolnshire Regiment - 10th Battalion - Grimsby Chums
Donald Banks - A Lincolnshire Terrier
And also:
The Lincolnshire Yeomanry
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