A Company B Company C Company
D Company E Company F Company
G Company H Company
CHAPTER I.
Early History and Training in England.
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment has a peculiar history, being descended from the old 47th, the Lanarkshire[A] Regiment, and the 81st, the Loyal Lincoln Volunteers.
In 1881, when these two Regiments were at their Depot at Preston, it was found convenient to amalgamate them, and they became the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the North Lancashire Regiment. The Lincolnshire men were not pleased at having to drop the epithet “Loyal” (conferred on them[B] in memory of an occasion during the Peninsular War when, on volunteers being told to step one pace forward, the entire Battalion moved forward one pace), and they placed their views before the War Office, with the result that the new formation was allowed to retain the epithet, and it became the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. This little outline of its history explains why the 1st Battalion’s March-past is “My love is like a red, red rose,” generally known as the “Red Rose,” and the 2nd Battalion’s “The Lincolnshire Poacher.”