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5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment were a unit of the Territorial Force with their HQ at the Drill Hall in Doughty Road, Grimsby. They were part of the Lincoln and Leicester Infantry Brigade, North Midland Division. C Coy were based at The Drill Hall, Halton Road, Spilsby, with an outlying drill station at Skegness. D Coy were based at Louth, with an outlying drill station at North Thoresby. E Coy were based at The Drill Hall, Barton upon Humber. F Coy were based at The Territorial Drill Hall, South End, Alford. G Coy were based in Frodingham with an outlying drill station at Brigg and H coy were based at Gainsborough.They were mobilised for war service on the 5th of August 1914. The Division concentrated in the Luton area by mid August. They proceeded to France, landing at Boulogne in late February being first complete Territorial Division to arrive in a theatre of war when they joined the BEF in the Ypres salient. On the 12th of May the Division was retitled 46th (North Midland) Division. They were in action during The German liquid fire attack at Hooge and The attack at the Hohenzollern Redoubt in October. On the 23rd of December the were ordered to proceed to Egypt via Marseilles leaving the DAC, Divisional Train and the Mobile Veterinary Section behind. All units had arrived by the 13th of January 1916 but they spent just a few days in Egypt, being ordered to return to France where the units left behind rejoined. On the 1st of July 1916 they took part in The diversionary attack at Gommecourt. In 1917 they were in action during the Operations on the Ancre, Occupation of the Gommecourt defences, The attack on Rettemoy Graben, The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The attack on Lievin and The Battle of Hill 70. On the 31st of January 1918 they transferred to 177th Brigade, 59th (2nd North Midland) Division who were training at Le Cauroy for rest and further training, going back into the line at Bullecourt on the 11th of February 1918. In March 177th Brigade and the divisional artillery were in action in The Battle of St Quentin. The whole Division then suffered heavily in the The Battle of Bapaume. The Division, without the artillery, moved to Poperinge in Flanders, receiving new drafts of men. On the 5th of April they took over the front line at Passchendaele. On the 13th of April they moved to reinforce the Lys area and were in action during The Battle of Bailleul, suffering heavy losses as the enmy broke through, they moved back to Mont Noir and fought in the The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge. In early May the Division was reduced to a training cadre establishment but was reconstituted and took over a sector on the 25th of July with Third Army. On the 31st of July they absorbed 2/5th Lincolns. They were in action during the The Battle of Albert near Ablainzeville and in The final advance in Artois and Flanders with Fifth Army, entering Lille on the 16th of October, reaching Valenciennes on the Belgian border by the 23rd after heavy fighting on the Scheldt. By the Armistice the advance units were north-east of Tournai in Belgium, facing Lessines. They moved to the area south and south east of Lille, moving to Noeux les Mines and Bethune in the first week of December where demobilisation began.
25th Aug 1914 46th Midland Division on the Move
1st Mar 1915 Fur Coats Issued
2nd Mar 1915 Lectures & Route March
3rd Mar 1915 Lectures & route March
4th Mar 1915 First Challenges in France for 5th Lincs
5th Mar 1915 On the Move
6th Mar 1915 5th Lincs on the March
7th Mar 1915 Platoon Training
8th Mar 1915 Sore Feet
09th Mar 1915 On the March
10th Mar 1915 Platoon Training
11th Mar 1915 5th Lincs on the March
12th Mar 1915 Ready to Move
13th Mar 1915 Ready to Move
14th Mar 1915 Heavy Gun Firing
15th Mar 1915 Platoon Training
16th Mar 1915 On the Move
17th Mar 1915 Platoon Training
18th Mar 1915 5th Lincs on the March
19th Mar 1915 Platoon Training
20th Mar 1915 Platoon Training
21st Mar 1915 Services Held
22nd Mar 1915 Platoon Training
23rd Mar 1915 Brigade Defence Scheme
24th Mar 1915 5th Lincs on Route March
25th Mar 1915 Route March for 5th Lincs
26th Mar 1915 On the March
26th Feb 1915 Final Parade in England
26th Feb 1915 Final Parade in England
26th Mar 1915 Instruction
27th Mar 1915 Instruction in Trench Duties
28th Mar 1915 Instruction in Trench Duties
28th Feb 1915 5th Lincs Proceed to France
29th Mar 1915 Night Work in Trenches
30th Mar 1915 Companies under instruction
31st Mar 1915 Return to Billets
1st Apr 1915 Baths
2nd Apr 1915 Instruction for 5th Lincs
3rd Apr 1915 5th Lincs Training
5th Apr 1915 5th Lincs on the March
6th Apr 1915 5th Lincs on the March
7th Apr 1915 Training
08th Apr 1915 On the March
09th Apr 1915 Into the Trenches
10th Apr 1915 Registering apparently not quite correct
11th Apr 1915 Trench Work
12th Apr 1915 Zeppelin over the Trenches
15th Apr 1915 At Rest
16th Apr 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
17th Apr 1915 Under Shellfire
18th Apr 1915 Trench Work
19th Apr 1915 Enemy Active
20th Apr 1915 Artillery Bombardment
21st Apr 1915 Dull and cols
22nd Apr 1915 Attack Expected
24th Apr 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
25th Apr 1915 Trench Work
26th Apr 1915 Suspicious Noises
27th Apr 1915 Trench Work
28th Apr 1915 Enemy Mine Located
29th Apr 1915 At Rest
30th Apr 1915 Working Parties
1st May 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
2nd May 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
3rd May 1915 Trench Work
4th May 1915 Trench Work
5th May 1915 Trench Work
6th May 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
7th May 1915 In Billets
8th May 1915 In Billets
9th May 1915 In Billets
10th May 1915 Encounter with the Enemy
11th May 1915 Trench Work
11th May 1915 Trench Work
12th May 1915 Signal Lamps
13th May 1915 Trench Work
14th May 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
15th May 1915 In Billets
16th May 1915 Church Parade
18th May 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
19th May 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
20th May 1915 Enemy Mine Explodes
21st May 1915 Difficult Work
22nd May 1915 Suspicious Noises
23rd May 1915 Into Bivouacs
25th May 1915 Glorious Day
26th May 1915 Into the Trenches
27th May 1915 Trench Work
28th May 1915 Trench Work
29th May 1915 Trench Work
30th May 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
31st May 1915 To Bivouacs
1st Jun 1915 In Bivouacs
2nd Jun 1915 In Bivouacs
3rd Jun 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
4th Jun 1915 Grass Fires
5th Jun 1915 Snipers Busy
6th Jun 1915 Sentry Snoring
7th Jun 1915 On the March
8th Jun 1915 In Bivouacs
9th Jun 1915 In Bivouacs
10th Jun 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
11th Jun 1915 Trench Work
12th Jun 1915 Trench Work
12th Jun 1915 Instruction 
13th Jun 1915 Trench Work
13th Jun 1915 Instruction
14th Jun 1915 Trench Work & Relief
14th Jun 1915 Instruction
15th Jun 1915 Training
15th Jun 1915 Shelling
16th Jun 1915 In Bivouacs
16th Jun 1915 Demonstration
17th Jun 1915 In Bivouacs
17th Jun 1915 Instruction
18th Jun 1915 Reliefs
18th Jun 1915 Instruction
19th Jun 1915 10th DLI attached to 5th Lincs for Instruction.
19th Jun 1915 Instruction
20th Jun 1915 Enemy Mine Explodes
20th Jun 1915 Instruction
21st Jun 1915 Relief
22nd Jun 1915 On the March
23rd Jun 1915 In Bivouacs
25th Jun 1915 Route March
28th Jun 1915 Parades and Route March
30th Jun 1915 Into the Trenches
30th Jun 1915 5th Lincs into the Trenches
1st Jul 1915 Gas Shells
2nd Jul 1915 A Nervous Night
3rd Jul 1915 Snipers in Action
4th Jul 1915 Under Shellfire
5th Jul 1915 Relief Completed
6th Jul 1915 In Huts
7th Jul 1915 Route March
08th Jul 1915 Route March and Working Parties
09th Jul 1915 Working Parties
10th Jul 1915 Working Parties
11th Jul 1915 Training and Working Parties
12th Jul 1915 Reliefs
13th Jul 1915 In the Trenches
13th of July 1915 Enemy Active on Canal
14th Jul 1915 Trench Work
15th Jul 1915 Trench Work
16th Jul 1915 Trench Work
17th Jul 1915 Trench Work
18th Jul 1915 Into the Trenches
19th Jul 1915 Mine Exploded
20th Jul 1915 In Dugouts
21st Jul 1915 Working Parties
22nd Jul 1915 Fatigue Parties
23rd Jul 1915 Fatigue Parties
24th Jul 1915 Enemy Mine Explodes
25th Jul 1915 Aeroplane duel
26th Jul 1915 Trench Work
27th Jul 1915 Trench Work
28th Jul 1915 In the Trenches
29th Jul 1915 In the Trenches
30th Jul 1915 Under Fire
31st Jul 1915 Artillery Bombardment
1st Aug 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
2nd Aug 1915 In Dugouts
3rd Aug 1915 On the Move
4th Aug 1915 On the Move
5th Aug 1915 At Rest
6th Aug 1915 Working Parties
7th Aug 1915 Working Parties
8th Aug 1915 Working Parties
9th Aug 1915 Trenches Recaptured
10th Aug 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
11th Aug 1915 In the Trenches
12th Aug 1915 Short of Very Lights
13th Aug 1915 Trench Work
14th Aug 1915 Trench Work
15th Aug 1915 Trench Work
16th Aug 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
17th Aug 1915 Working Parties
18th Aug 1915 Working Parties
19th Aug 1915 Working Parties
20th Aug 1915 Working Parties
21st Aug 1915 Working Parties
22nd Aug 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
23rd Aug 1915 Trench Work & Artillery Exchange
24th Aug 1915 RE Explode Enemy Mine
25th Aug 1915 Trench Work
26th Aug 1915 Trench Work
27th Aug 1915 Trench Work
28th Aug 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
29th Aug 1915 At Rest
31st Aug 1915 Working Parties
1st Sep 1915 Tube Helmets issued
2nd Sep 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
3rd Sep 1915 Wet and Dirty
4th Sep 1915 Mining Sounds Heard
5th Sep 1915 Working Parties
6th Sep 1915 Trench Work
7th Sep 1915 Trench Work
8th Sep 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
9th Sep 1915 Working Parties
10th Sep 1915 Working Parties
11th Sep 1915 Working Parties
12th Sep 1915 Working Parties
13th Sep 1915 Working Parties
14th Sep 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
15th Sep 1915 Dugouts Destroyed
16th Sep 1915 Whizbangs
17th Sep 1915 Trench Work
18th Sep 1915 Trench Work
19th Sep 1915 Trench Work
20th Sep 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
21st Sep 1915 Bathing
22nd Sep 1915 Bathing
24th Sep 1915 Artillery Barrage
26th Sep 1915 5th Lincs Relieve 4th Leics
27th Sep 1915 In Trenches
28th Sep 1915 Into the Trenches
28th Sep 1915 Lull in Fighting
29th Sep 1915 Clearing up after Rain
30th Sep 1915 Enemy Mine Explodes
1st Oct 1915 Reliefs
2nd Oct 1915 The Sacrifice
2nd Oct 1915 On the March
3rd Oct 1915 At Rest
4th Oct 1915 Training Continues
5th Oct 1915 Trench Visit & Training
7th Oct 1915 Trench Visit & Training
7th Oct 1915 Planning
9th Oct 1915 Conferences
11th Oct 1915 Training
12th Oct 1915 5th Lincolns into Trenches
13th Oct 1915 5th Lincolns in Action
14th Oct 1915 Into the Second Line
15th Oct 1915 Relieved
16th Oct 1915 At Rest
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
17th Oct 1915 Inspection
18th Oct 1915 Training
19th Oct 1915 Training
20th Oct 1915 Bathing & Training
21st Oct 1915 Route March
22nd Oct 1915 Route March
23rd Oct 1915 Medical Inspections
24th Oct 1915 Church Parade
25th Oct 1915 Medical Inspections
26th Oct 1915 On the Move
27th Oct 1915 Parade Rehearsal
29th Oct 1915 GOC Meets Officers
30th Oct 1915 Training & Route March
31st Oct 1915 Church Parade
1st Nov 1915 Lectures & Bathing
2nd Nov 1915 Lectures & Bathing
3rd Nov 1915 Training & Route March
4th Nov 1915 Drill & Route March
5th Nov 1915 Inspections & Working Parties
6th Nov 1915 On the Move
7th Nov 1915 Church Parade
8th Nov 1915 Parade and Route March
9th Nov 1915 Training
10th Nov 1915 Training
11th Nov 1915 Route March
12th Nov 1915 Inspection & Bathing
13th Nov 1915 On the March
14th Nov 1915 Officers inspect Trenches
15th Nov 1915 On the March
16th Nov 1915 Manning Posts
17th Nov 1915 Reliefs
18th Nov 1915 Short of Materials
19th Nov 1915 Trench Work
20th Nov 1915 Reliefs
21st Nov 1915 On the March
22nd Nov 1915 Company & Platoon Drill
23rd Nov 1915 Working Parties
24th Nov 1915 Into the Trenches
25th Nov 1915 Trench Work
26th Nov 1915 Reliefs
27th Nov 1915 Parapets to be raised
28th Nov 1915 Hard Ground
29th Nov 1915 Trench Work
30th Nov 1915 5th Lincs Relieved by 4th Leics
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
1st Dec 1915 Relieved
2nd Dec 1915 Medical Inspections
3rd Dec 1915 5th Lincs on the March
4th Dec 1915 Company & Platoon Drill
5th Dec 1915 Drill & Inspection
6th Dec 1915 Inspection Delayed
7th Dec 1915 Company & Platoon Drill
8th Dec 1915 Inspection and Leave
9th Dec 1915 Wet Day
10th Dec 1915 Fatigues and Meetings
11th Dec 1915 A Change of Plan
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
12th Dec 1915 Church Parade
13th Dec 1915 Company Training
13st December 1915 Orders
14th Dec 1915 Route March
15th Dec 1915 Company Training
16th Dec 1915 Arrangements to Move
17th Dec 1915 Preparation to Move
18th Dec 1915 Preparation for Move
19th Dec 1915 Brigade on the move
20th Dec 1915 Company Training
21st Dec 1915 Lectures Under Cover
22nd Dec 1915 Very Wet
23rd Dec 1915 Heavy Rain
24th Dec 1915 Drill
25th Dec 1915 Football Competition
26th Dec 1915 At Rest
27th Dec 1915 Under Instruction
28th Dec 1915 Parade and March
29th Dec 1915 Parade and Brigade March
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
18th June 1916 Relieved 8th Leicestershire Regt.
3rd July 1916 Reliefs
Sep 1916 Transfer
18th of February 1917 Relief
13th Mar 1917 Leicesters relieve Lincolns
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Those known to have served with5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Allison Alfred Edward. Pte. (d.13th Oct 1915)
- Ball George. Pte. (d.14th Jun 1915)
- Campsall Wilfred Lawson. Pte. (d.5th June 1915)
- Drane James. Pte
- Evison George Cooper. Cpl.
- Knight Christopher James. Sgt.
- Laurence Harold. Drmr. (d.30th June 1915)
- Lewis Frank. Pte. (d.26th Sep 1917)
- Wallis William. Pte. (d.13th Oct 1915)
- Wood George William. Pte. (d.13th Oct 1915)
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Pte. William Wallis 5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.13th Oct 1915) William Wallis was born in Scunthorpe on the 1st February 1897 to Walter & Kate Wallis. He died aged 18 on the 13th October 1915. He died during the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt.
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Pte. George William Wood 5th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.13th Oct 1915) George Wood served with the 1/5th Lincolnshire Regiment.
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Pte. Frank Lewis 2nd Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.26th Sep 1917) Frank Lewis was a young man who was scared of thunder and lightning but wanted to serve his country. He served with 2nd and 5th Battalions of the Lincolnshire Regiment.
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Pte. Wilfred Lawson Campsall 1/5th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.5th June 1915) Private Wilfred Campsall served with the 1/5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, he was killed in action on 5th June, 1915, aged 19. Wilfred was born at Medge Hall in 1895, to George and Emma Campsall (nee Singleton).
Around 1899 the family moved to Scunthorpe. His father was an iron ore inspector at the blast furnaces, whilst Wilfred was a press-boy at a brickworks.
Wilfred enlisted as a territorial soldier in the Lincolnshire Regiment at Scunthorpe, possibly before the outbreak of war and most likely with the 5th Battalion who were the nominal territorial battalion for the north of the county.
He was transferred to the 1/5th Battalion Manchester Regiment. The 1/5th Manchester moved to Gallipoli on 6th May when they landed with 42nd Division at Helles Beach. On 26th May they became part of 127th Brigade in 42nd Division.
On 4th June, the 42nd Division, alongside the 29th Division, attacked the Turkish trenches in the hills above Cape Helles in an attempt to break out from Helles Beach. Consolidating their position over the next two days, the 1/5th Manchesters defended it against several Turkish counterattacks.
Wilfred was one of the casualties of these counter-attacks. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. Wilfred is also remembered on the Scunthorpe Roll of Honour.
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Pte. George Ball 1/5th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.14th Jun 1915) My great-grandfather George Ball, whose death is marked at Packhorse Farm Shrine Cemetery in Belgium. George died when my grandfather was 2 years of age.
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Cpl. George Cooper Evison 5th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment  George Evison enlisted in the Scots Guards on 24th February 1899, just short of his 17th birthday. In the 1901 census he is stationed at Wellington Barracks, Westminster, London. I do not know much about his service in the Guards, but I do know that he served in South Africa during the Boer war as he qualified for the Queens South Africa medal which was confirmed in his later military records.
George left the Guards on 23rd February 1906 and returned home. He remained on the reserve list for the Scots Guards for 5 years until February 1911.
In March 1911, he signed up, for 5 years, to the Territorial Army, the 5th Battalion of the Lincolnshire regiment, which was based at Grimsby. He attended a fortnights training camp in 1911, 1912 and 1913. On the 5th August 1914, at the onset of the First World War, the 4th (based at Lincoln) and the 5th Territorial Battalions of the Lincolnshire regiment were mobilised and started preparing for war.
The 5th Battalion arrived in France on the 1st March 1915. George was promoted to Corporal on 22nd March 1915 (this was despite being arrested twice for Drunk and Disorderly in November and December 1914, for which he was reprimanded).
According to The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-1918, by Major-General C.R.Simpson, the 4th and 5th Battalions spent some training on trench duties before going to the front line on 9th April.
George was injured in action and hospitalised sometime on or just prior to 2nd July 1915. His injury was described as a scalded foot and he was transported home on the 8th July. According to Major-General Simpson’s book. the battalion at that time was in a position close to Sanctuary Wood and the Germans were attacking with ‘liquid fire’. Whether or not this was the cause of his injury would be pure conjecture.
George returned to France on 20th December 1915, having recovered from his injuries. He remained with the regiment until 1st April 1916, when he returned home for discharge, as his 5-year enlistment was complete.
You might think that was enough for a 34-year-old man but no, George decided to re-enlist, joining the Royal Artillery on 7th June 1916. Once again his military record is intact. He joined the 59th Division Training Battery at Ripon where he remained for the remainder of the war.
At the completion of the war, he requested to remain in the army, which was granted. His reward for such loyalty was involvement in the Afghanistan war of 1919. The Afghans, sensing British war weariness, had attacked British garrisons and a short war followed. So, in addition to his Great War medals he was awarded the General Service medal and clasp Afghanistan N.W.F.1919.
He was eventually discharged from the Royal Artillery with the rank of Bombardier on 31st March 1920. However, he did rejoin the Territorial Army for 5 years on 24th June 1920.
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Sgt. Christopher James Knight 5th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Jim Knight was my Grandfather and he fought at Hohenzollern Redoubt, I was told as a young lad he should have been decorated for his bravery but due to the loss of all but one of the officers he was never awarded anything. I have in my possession a wonderful collection of his war service including photographs of reunion dinners, embroidery done when he was in the military hospital twice, once gassed then shrapnel wounds. All his life he kept in touch with his old comrades and November the 11th was always so special to him. I can remember him saying "they were only bains you know" and he said when he arrived to Barton station it was the most tragic day in his life, as all the mothers waiting wanting to know how their sons had died.
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