1680.07.13 2nd Tangier, or Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Foot
also known until 1751 by the names of colonels

1684 The Duchess of York and Albany's Regiment of Foot
(named for the future Queen Mary)

1685.02? The Queen's Regiment of Foot
(redesignated when the Duchess of York became Queen)

1688 The Queen Consort's Regiment of Foot
(re-named for Queen Mary, consort of William III)

1702 The Queen's Regiment of Foot
1703 The Queen's Own Regiment of Marines
1710 The Queen's Own Regiment of Foot
1715 The King's Own Regiment of Foot
(re-named for King George I)
1751.07.01 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot
1867 4th (The King's Own Royal) Regiment of Foot
1881.07.01 The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
reorganised as the county regiment of North Lancashire, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below]
1921.01.01 The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
1959.10.01 amalgamated with The Border Regiment, to form The King's Own Royal Border Regiment

1959.10.01 The King's Own Royal Border Regiment
formed by amalgamation of The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), and The Border Regiment
2006.07.01 to unite with The King's Regt, and The Queen's Lancashire Regt, to form
The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)

2006.07.01 The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
to be formed by union of The King's Own Royal Border Regt, The Kings' Regt, and The Queen's Lancashire Regt; managed as a 5-bn large regt in conjunction with The Yorkshire Regt
1st Battalion, redesignation of 1st Bn The King's Own Royal Border Regt
2nd Battalion, redesignation of 1st Bn The King's Regt
3rd Battalion, redesignation of 1st Bn The Queen's Lancashire Regt

2007.03? 3rd Bn disbanded

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The 4th raised in 1680 as the Tangier regiment and in 1881 it became Royal Lancaster Regiment.

This regiment was raised specifically to defend Tangier in the reign of Charles the second.

The Royal Lion badge was granted by King William the third and the title of The Kings Own in 1715. The regiment had royal blue facings and in 1959 it was almalgamated with the Kings Own Royal Border Regiment.

The retired Colours are in the Priory Church Lancaster but the 4th Kings Colours are in Edinburgh Castle.

Battle Honours WW1

The Great War (16 battalions): Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Messines 1917, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Bapaume 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Struma, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18

Battle Honours WW2

The Second World War: St Omer-La Bassée, Dunkirk 1940, North-West Europe 1940, Defence of Habbaniya, Falluja, Iraq 1941, Merjayun, Jebel Mazar, Syria 1941, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, North Africa 1940-42, Montone, Citta di Castello, San Martino Sogliano, Lamone Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Malta 1941-42, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

 

King's Own Royal Border Regiment Museum, Carlisle (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment

1st Battalion

1680.07.13 2nd Tangier, or Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Foot
1680 England
1680 Tangier
1684 England
1685 Monmouth rebellion
1685 England
1690 Jacobite war: Ireland
1691 England
1692 Flanders
1696 England
1697 Flanders
1699 Flanders
1702 Spain
1703 The Queen's Own Regiment of Marines
1703 Spain
1710 The Queen's Own Regiment of Foot
1711 New France shipwreck in St. Lawrence
1711 England
1713 Channel Islands
1715 England
1717 Channel Islands
1719 England
1744 Flanders
1745 Scotland: Jacobite rebellion
1746 Scotland
1751 England
1751.07.01 4th (or King's Own) Regiment of Foot
1753 Minorca
1756 Minorca
1756 1st Battalion, 4th (or King's Own) Regiment of Foot
redesignated on raising of 2nd Battalion
1756.10 England: Exeter
1758.04.21 4th (or King's Own) Regiment of Foot
redesignated on conversion of 2nd Bn as 62nd Regiment of Foot
1758 West Indies
1764 England
1774.06 Massachusetts: Boston
1775 American revolution
1779.12 at sea (embarked at New York)
1779.12? South Carolina: Charleston (flank coys)
East Florida (regt reunited)
1778 West Indies
1779.12 Barbados
1780 England
1781 Ireland
1787 Canada det in Newfoundland?
1797 England
1799.08 1st Battalion, 4th (or King's Own) Regiment of Foot
redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion
1799 Helder campaign
1800 England
1805.10.29 at sea
1805.11.17 Hanover: Cuxhaven
1805.11. North Germany
1806.02.15 at sea
1806.02 England
1807 Denmark: Copenhagen
1808.05.10 at sea
1808.05.17 Sweden: Goteborg
1808.07.03 at sea
1808.07.15 England
1808 Spain
1808 Peninsular war
1809 England
1809 Walcheren
1810 Peninsular war
1814 American war: Atlantic coast
1815 American war: New Orleans campaign
1815 England
1815 Belgium
1815 Waterloo campaign
1815 France Army of Occupation
1815 4th (or King's Own) Regiment of Foot
redesignated on disbandment of 2nd Battalion
1818 England
1819 West Indies
1826 England
1826.12 Portugal
1828.07? England
1828 Scotland
1829 Ireland
1830 England
1831 at sea escorting convicts to Australia
1831 New South Wales
1837 India
1848 England
1854 Malta
1854 Crimea
1856 England
1856 Ireland
1857 Mauritius
1857 India
1857.10.23 1st Battalion, 4th (or King's Own) Regiment of Foot
redesignated on formation of 2nd Battalion
1858 Sepoy rebellion
1858 India
1867 Abyssinia
1868 England
1874 Gibraltar
1879 West Indies
1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
1881 England: Aldershot
1886 Ireland: Dublin
1891 England: Aldershot
1894 Malta
1897 Hong Kong
1899 Singapore MI det in South Africa
1900 England MI det in South Africa
1901 Malta
1903 India: Calcutta
1906 Burma: Shwebo
1908 India: Lebong
1910 Lucknow
1912 Dover 12 Bde
1914.08 France and Flanders 4 Div
1919 Ireland: Dublin
1921.01.01 1st Battalion, The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
1922 England: Shorncliffe 10 Bde
1926 Aldershot 5 Bde
1930 Palestine
1934.12 India: Madras
1939 Karachi
1940.04.18 airlifted from Karachi
1940.08.18 Iraq: Shaiba
1941.04 Iraq 10 Ind Inf Div
1941 Syria-Palestine
1942.08.29 absorbed elements of 1st Bn, The South Wales Borderers and 1st Bn, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in Cyprus
1943.10.24 Aegean 234 Inf Bde
1943.11.16 captured by the Germans at Leros
1944.01.30 reconstituted in Middle East by redesignation of 8th Battalion
1944 Middle East
1944.01 Italy 10 Ind Inf Div
1945.05 Austria
1946 Trieste
1949.04.01 amalgamated with 2nd Battalion without change of title
1950 England: Bulford
1951.04 Germany: Osnabrück
1953.09 Korea 29 Inf Bde Gp
1954.11 Hong Kong
1956 UK
1958 Aden & Kenya
1959.10.01 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The Border Regiment, to form 1st Bn, The King's Own Royal Border Regiment