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	Queen's Lancashire Regiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King's Division.
		The regiment was also the last British battalion to serve in Berlin prior to the final withdrawal in 1994.
		The regiment saw extensive service in Iraq as part of Operation Telic, and was at the centre of the first serious accusations of abuse against Iraqi prisoners levelled at British soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queen's_Lancashire_Regiment (387 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: The Lancashire Queens Regiment Museum
		The Lancashire Queens Regiment Museum is a military museum in Preston.
		The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) is an infantry regiment of the British Army.
		It is the county town of Lancashire, and is on the Ribble river.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Lancashire-Queens-Regiment-Museum (281 words)

	Preston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the administrative centre of Lancashire, and is on the River Ribble.
		Preston was granted the status of a city in 2002, becoming England's 50th city in the 50th year of Queen Elizabeth's reign.
		During the Roman period the road from the Setantian port of Neb of the Nese passed one mile north of Preston and intersected the road from Languavallium in Cumberland to Condate in Cheshire in Preston at Tulketh-hall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Preston (1518 words)

	History
		The Regiment proudly traces its history back to six Regiments of Foot, the 30th, 40th, 47th, 59th, 81st and 82nd, the first of which was formed over 300 years ago.
		Lancashire battalion were particulary involved in the battles of Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915 and Loos, where Private Kenny of the 47th earned a Victoria Cross.
		On the 1st July 1958 The East Lancashire Regiment and South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) were Amalgamated and the1st Battalion The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) was formed in Hong Kong.
	www.army.mod.uk /qlr/history.htm (4568 words)

	UNIFORMS - LoveToKnow Article on UNIFORMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Infantry.The uniforms of the four Foot Guard regiments are distinguished by the ctiffs, which have slashed flaps and buttons, by the blue shoulder-straps and by the embroidery patches on the collar, cuff-flaps and skirts, which are analogous to the GardeLitzen of continental armies.
		The 108th is a rifle regiment, and wears a green tunic with fl red-edged collar and cuffs, dark grey trousers and a shako with fl plume looped to one side in the Austrian fashion.
		I a the 1st Guard regiment the collar and cuffs are white, the braid light blue and white, the helmet ornament a silver lion, the cap- band white; in the 2nd Carabineers collar and cuffs fl, braid fl and white, helmet ornament a brass spike, cap-band fl.
	www.1911ency.org /U/UN/UNIFORMS.htm (13726 words)

	KENNEDY (FAMILY) - LoveToKnow Article on KENNEDY (FAMILY) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At first the headquarters of a regiment was stationed there; this was reduced to,a wing, and recently to military poli-ce.
		Kenmure was taken prisoner at Preston on the i3th of November, and was sent to the Tower.
		He died somewhat mysteriously at Dieppi late in 1558 when returning from Paris, where he had attendee the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots, and the dauphin of France He was the father of the " king of Carrick " and the brother o Quintin Kennedy (1520-1564), abbot of Crossraguel.
	65.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KE/KENNEDY_FAMILY_.htm (2522 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: The King's Own Royal Border Regiment
		In 2004, as part of the restructuring of the infantry, it was announced that the King's Own Royal Border Regiment would amalgamate with the King's Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form the new Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border).
		The Kings Regiment is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Kings Division.
		The Duke of Lancasters Regiment (Kings, Lancashire and Border) is one of the new large infantry regiments of the British Army.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-King%27s-Own-Royal-Border-Regiment (660 words)

	Queens Cemetery Puisieux, Pas-de-Calais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Queens Cemetery Puisieux is the second cemetery along the dirt track.
		In the spring of 1917, the battlefields of the Somme and Ancre were cleared by V Corps and a number of new cemeteries were made.
		Queens Cemetery (originally known as Queens V Corps Cemetery No 4) is on the old front line of July 1916, south of Mark Copse, one of four small plantations that were on or close behind the line between Serre and Hebuterne.
	www.silentcities.co.uk /cemeteryq/Queens%20Cemetery%20Puisieux.htm (364 words)

	The Queen's Lancashire Regiment - Gentleman's Military Interest Club
		The Lancashire Fusiliers wore the primrose (Yellow) coloured brush plume in the fusilier fur cap until 1914, and it was not until after the Second World War that all Fusilier Regiments readopted the coloured plumes.
		Primrose (pale yellow) was the facing colour of the 30th Foot 1702-1881 and was carried again in 1916 when 1st Battalion the East Lancashire Regiment wore patches of that colour on their helmets and sleeves at the battle of the Somme.
		QLR is the result of amalgamations of 30, 40, 47, 59, 81 and 82 Regiments of Foot.
	www.gmic.co.uk /index.php?showtopic=81 (1995 words)

	Rossendale and Darwen Conservatives - News - Adams: Save Queens Lancashire Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment have given years of glorious service and now the county's own military regiment is under threat from a Government defence review.
		If the Regiment was to be lost, it would mean the loss of an exclusively Lancashire fighting force for the first time since 1689.
		A decision on the regiment's future is expected to be made by the Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon, this Autumn.
	www.rossendaleanddarwenconservatives.com /page/3/75 (301 words)

	40thregt.html
		The 40th Regiment was born, but as common at this period Regiments were known by their Commanding Officer, and in this case, "Phillips Regiment of Foot", - later Cornwallis'.
		In 1881, the 82nd Regiment -(Prince of Wales' Volunteers) was grouped with the 40th and became 1st and 2nd battalions of the "South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales' Volunteers)".
		In 1948 at a ceremony held at Trieste, the 1st and 2nd battalions of the regiment were amalgamated to form the 1st battalion South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales' Volunteers.
	www.labyrinth.net.au /~tyoung/40thregt.html (1169 words)

	British Editor Fired for Use of Fake Photos of Iraq Abuse
		The board members apologized "unreservedly" for the damage done to the reputation of the Queens Lancashire Regiment, whose soldiers were implicated by the sensational Mirror report on May 1 that included the photographs.
		Roger Goodman, a spokesman for the Queens Lancashire Regiment, told the BBC on Friday evening that Mr.
		The special investigation branch of the Royal Military police is reported to be close to recommending the prosecution of several soldiers who have been accused of brutalizing eight Iraqi detainees arrested at a hotel in Basra last September.
	www.wadinet.de /news/iraq/nw2362_fakephotos.htm (477 words)

	Queens Lancashire Regiment
		The Regiment's 1st Battalion is always one of the best recruited in the Army, and is one of the few whose soldiers still come almost entirely from its home area.
		In December 2004, it was announced that The Queen's Lancashire's were to amalgamate with the Kings Own Royal Border and King's Regiments to form a new North West England infantry regiment.
		The 1st Battalion The Queen's Lancashire Regiment re-deployed from Cyprus to Belfast Barracks, Osnabruck, Germany, in early December 2005.
	www.army.mod.uk /qlr/index.htm (263 words)

	Commemorations of The Somme
		The Royal Newfoundland Regiment has a traditional Mess dinner on the eve of July 1, which will take place this year as it has annually since the regiment was reconstituted in 1950, and previously by the Veterans of the Regiment since 1919.
		The Regiment moved off in previously arranged formations, i.e., A and B Coy., A on the left in the first line in lines of platoons in file of single file at 40 paces interval and 25 paces between sections, followed by C and D Coy.
		Lancashire Fusiliers attacked from here and Geoffrey Malins, the 1916 movie camera-man who was filming the battle, included a shot of them waiting in the lane, bayonets fixed.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/somme.html (19956 words)

	Queens' College Record 2001 - First World War - Roll of Honour
		Those who were admitted to Queens' but never matriculated are designated DNM in the text, otherwise the date after each name refers to the year of matriculation.
		Second Lieutenant Ronald W A Watts (1912), M.C., Worcestershire Regiment (previously a Private in the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)).
		Captain John I Cohen (1911), East Lancashire Regiment (previously an officer in the Labour Corps).
	www.quns.cam.ac.uk /Queens/Record/2001/History/ww1.html (3107 words)

	Soldiers back home after Irish duty
		Gunner Anthony Fisher, 19, Private Peter Quinn, 19 and Lance Corporal Squire all from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment have recently completed their six month tour of duty and are looking forward to a well earned rest, catching up with friends and family.
		Around 500 troops from the Queens Lancashire Regiment were responsible for supporting the Royal Ulster Constabulary in maintaining law and order in South Armagh between April and September of this year.
		The Queen's Lancashire Regiment recruits almost exclusively from the Lancashire area.
	archive.thisislancashire.co.uk /2001/10/04/654832.html (264 words)

	Sightseeing in England and Wales
		One of Lancashire's finest 16th century buildings, Rufford is famed for its spectacular Great Hall, with intricately carved moveable wooden screen and dramatic roof.
		An intriguing museum, which depicts the history of the Lancashire Fusiliers between 1688-1968, some of the particularly interesting items include a history of General Wolfe, Napoleonic relics, details on the Gallipoli Campaign and a medal collection.
		Housed in one of Preston's finest 19th century listed buildings is the museum and chapel of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.
	www.golftravelengland.com /whileurhere/lancashire.asp (420 words)

	British Light Infantry Regiments & National Service
		The 30Foot raised in 1696, the 59th Foot in 1741, they became the 1st and 2nd Battalions The East Lancashire in 1881.
		The East Lancashire's distinguished themselves in 1944 when liberating the Dutch city of Hertogen-bosch, a five day battle with 25per cent casualties.
		In 1958 they were amalgamated with the South Lancashires to form The Queens Lancashire Regiment.
	www.britisharmedforces.org /i_regiments/eastLan_index.htm (272 words)

	Wellington Regiment history
		Below is shown the Insignia of the 9th Hawkes Bay Regiment (Circa WW I) and the insignia of the Wellington Regiment which is permitted to be worn on the dress uniform belt buckle today by members of the Regimental Band.
		Worn on the upper sleeves of the tunic and behind the cap/beret badge, the star is from the New Zealand Rifle Brigade 1914-1918 (This permission was granted ONLY to the Wellington Regiment and subsequently passed on to ONLY the current Regiment).
		The Regiment has both a Queens Colour and Regimental Colour presented to the then 7th Battalion in 1979 by the Governor General Sir Keith Holyoake GCMG, CH.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-nz/wellington.htm (429 words)

	livhist.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 40th Regiment Living History Unit, which is part of The Colonial Re-Enactment Society Inc, based in Melbourne Australia, is a group of people dedicated to portraying the British Soldier of the 1850's in uniform,accoutrements and drill of the period.
		This gives us a British Reg't that was involved in Victoria's history at a time of growth and expansion owing to the discovery of gold, and the 40th's part in the Eureka Stockade.
		Our unit has been formed with full sanction from the Queens Lancashire Regiment to re-activate the "Flank and 5th Company", and we are also an affiliated member of the Regimental Association of the Queens Lancashire Reg't.
	www.labyrinth.net.au /~tyoung/livhist.html (471 words)

	Gloucestershire Regiment - Gloucestershire Message Boards - Gloucestershire chat and information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I really hope not John B The gloucester regiment is a very proud regiment going back a long way and the only one to be honored will the back badge...
		I see that your famous Gloucester Regiment is to be merged in the Geoff Hoon and General Mick Jackson mergers in the UK...
		Seems the Duke of Wellington Regiment too are not happy and they had a rally in HALIFAX recently.
	www.softdata.co.uk /forums/index.php?showtopic=269&view=getlastpost (702 words)

	UK launches probe into Iraq abuse allegations - Sify.com
		Nicosia: Military authorities are investigating the alleged abuse of prisoners in Iraq by soldiers of Britain's Queen's Lancashire Regiment since their return to their base in Cyprus, a British forces spokesman said Tuesday.
		Men of the 1st Battalion of the Queens Lancashire Regiment (QLR), normally stationed in the British base of Dhekelia, on Cyprus's south coast, are alleged to have abused Iraqi prisoners during a tour in Basra, southern Iraq, from June to November.
		Due to the serious nature of the charges all 600 soldiers in the QLR battalion have been briefed to say "nothing to the press" while investigations are on-going.
	sify.com /movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=13468149 (524 words)

	British Light Infantry Regiments & National Service
		The 47th was raised in 1740 as Mordaunts Regiment, it became Lancashire Regiment in 1782.
		In 1881 the title was The Loyal North Lancashire and in 1970 the Loyals were absorbed into The Queens Lancashire Regiment.
		Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum, Preston (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
	www.britisharmedforces.org /i_regiments/loyal_index.htm (325 words)

	Queens Regiment war diaries
		The following are excerpts from the War Diaries of that Regiment for the period June and July 1915, his first two months in France.
		A coy of the R West Kent Regiment was at Reserve Farm (Bn Hqrs) in reserve.
		On the right were 5th Royal Berkshires and 7th Suffolk(35 Brigade), and on the left the 6th Queens and 6th Royal West Kents.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Ridge/7291/diary.html (1972 words)

	Thought for the Day, 12 May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Yes, of course, those who mistreat prisoners and so let down their comrades as well as their cause, and endanger their comrades as well as themselves, deserve to be exposed and brought to justice.
		There is no one here in the north west, the home of the Queens Lancashire Regiment, who does not believe that.
		We are right to demand that detainees should be treated with humanity and decency, to be treated, in a word, as we would have ourselves treated if roles were reversed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/programmes/thought/documents/t20040512.shtml (509 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Manchester \| Hero soldier dies on his birthday
		He was the first person from the regiment to be awarded the MC since 1967.
		A spokesman for the Queens Lancashire Regiment said the small force protected a police station from being overrun despite rifle fire and missile and grenade attacks.
		He was informed he had won the MC by the commanding officer of the unit, Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca, on Thursday afternoon, the day before the awards were officially announced.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/manchester/3663891.stm (314 words)

	Stories for 15 May 2004
		TWO Lancashire police officers are at the centre of an internal probe after a taxi driver was cleared of falsely imprisoning them.
		HART Common professional and Lancashire coach Gareth Benson showed he can still impress around the greens, when he qualified for the final of the Glenmuir National Club Professional Championship at Southport and Ainsdale in August.
		DAILY Mirror editor Piers Morgan has resigned after the name of the Queens Lancashire Regiment was tainted by accusations of violence against Iraqi prisoners and fake torture photographs.
	archive.thisislancashire.co.uk /2004/5/15 (3985 words)

	"Queens Lancashire Regiment Museum hotels", hotels and accommodation near Queens Lancashire Regiment Museum ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Queens Lancashire Regiment Museum hotels, hotels and accommodation near Queens Lancashire Regiment Museum Lancashire.
		Housed in one of Preston's finest 19thC Listed buildings are the museum and chapel of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.
		The extensive collection, archive and library contain artefacts, documents and books relating to the 30th, 40th, 47th, 59th, 81st and 82nd Regiments of Foot, the East Lancashire Regiment, the South Lancashire Regiment and the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment as well as Militia, Rifle Volunteers, Territorials and Home Guard.
	www.hotels-england.co.uk /lancs/queens-lancashire-regiment-museum.htm (341 words)

	The Queen's Lancashire Regiment [UK]
		The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers), and The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
		The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers), and The Loyal Regiment]
		Walsh, R. Raymond); Walsh, Jean M. Presentation of new colours to the first battalion, the Queen's Lancashire Regiment by Her Majesty the Queen, Weeton 9 July 1990.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/inf/030QLR.htm (161 words)

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