ALLIED SHIPS & REGIMENTS

OF

THE QUEEN'S LANCASHIRE REGIMENT

The Red Rose Regiment

  QLR CAP BADGE

THE ROYAL NAVY

The Queen's Lancashire Regiment has long prided itself on its close association with the Royal Navy which dates back to the formation of Saunderson's Marines in 1702 and was in particular cemented by the service of the 30th Foot under Nelson's command in Corsica, 1794. Today we are one of only two Regiments which annually lays a wreath at Nelson's Column on Trafalgar Day, 21st October.

In 1995 The Queen's Lancashire Regiment formed an alliance by mutual agreement and with the approval of the Ministry of Defence with the Ship's Company of HMS Lancaster, a Type 23 frigate launched in 1991.

  HMS LANCASTER
The Type 23 Frigate HMS Lancaster was launched in 1991 and is the last ship of her class to be built.

ALLIED REGIMENTS

The aim of regimental alliances is to promote mutual understanding and friendship between all ranks of Allied Regiments and The Queen's Lancashire Regiment. All ranks of Allied Regiments are invited to call at Regimental Headquarters when visiting the United Kingdom and are also invited to visit the 1st and Lancashire and Cumbria Volunteers Battalions wherever these may be at the time. Serving officers, warrant officers and sergeants of Allied regiments are considered to be honorary members of the Regiment's messes as appropriate. The following alliances have been approved:

The Princess of Wales's Own Regiment. A unit of the volunteer military forces of Canada with its headquarters and territorial home at Kingston, Ontario. It became allied to The South Lancashire Regiment (PWV) on 15th July 1926.

The West Nova Scotia Regiment. Also a unit of the volunteer military forces of Canada with its headquarters at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, where the 40th Foot were raised in 1717. It became allied to The South Lancashire Regiment (PWV) under its former title of The Annapolis Regiment on 6th May 1929.

The Loyal Edmonton Regiment. Another famous unit of the volunteer military forces of Canada. The alliance was formed in 1933 between The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) and the then 49th Edmonton Regiment. The additional title 'Loyal' was granted in 1943 in recognition of the Regiment's excellent fighting record in Sicily.

The Royal Tasmania Regiment. This unit of the volunteer military forces of Australia became allied to the South Lancashire Regiment (PWV) in 1929 when it was known as the 40th Battalion (Derwent Regiment).  This link was inspired because of the former service in Tasmania of the 40th Foot in the periods 1825-30 and 1858-60.

7th Battalion (Wellington (City of Wellington’s Own) and Hawkes Bay) Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. A unit of the New Zealand Forces it became allied to The East Lancashire Regiment on 22nd January 1913 under its old title 9th Wellington (East Coast) Regiment. In 1923, on re-organisation, the title Hawkes Bay was incorporated. The 6th South Lancashires fought alongside the Hawkes Bay Company of the Wellington Battalion at Gallipoli.

8th Battalion The Punjab Regiment. The alliance of this unit of the Pakistan Army with the Lancashire Regiment (PWV) was approved in 1964. Before partition in 1947 the then 8th Punjabis had served alongside the 2nd East Lancashires in Hong Kong from 1934 to 1937 and the 2nd South Lancashires through much of the Burma campaign of 1944/45.

14th Battalion The Punjab Regiment. The 1st Loyals had served with the old 2/16th Punjabis on the North West Frontier in India in 1932 and a formal alliance with their successors of the Pakistan Army was approved in 1966.

2nd Battalion The Royal Malay Regiment. This alliance with The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) was formally approved in 1954 but the connection between 2nd Malay Regiment and the 2nd Loyals was forged in the heat of battle in 1942 when they fought gallantly and side by side in the defence of Singapore. More recently, 2nd Malay Regiment and our 1st Battalion were on active service together in Bosnia.

The Kimberley Regiment. The alliance with this unit of the South African Defence Forces dates from December 1925 but owes its origins to the siege of 1899-1900, when The Kimberley Regiment fought side by side with 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in defence of their home town.

 
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