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Men of the 4th Battalion, Border Regiment travel in the back of a lorry, France, May 1940. The 4th Battalion was a 1st Line Territorial Army unit, originally assigned to the 126th Infantry Brigade, 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division.
As an example, the three-line battalions of the 4th Borderers were numbered as the 1/4th, 2/4th, and 3/4th respectively. Many battalions of the regiment were formed as part of Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener's appeal for an initial 100,000 men volunteers in 1914.
5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, at Lancaster; 4th (Cumberland and Westmorland) Battalion, The Border Regiment, at Kendal; In 1967, when the TAVR was formed, both of the battalions lost a company to the Lancastrian Volunteers, and also retained the rest of the battalion within the
2/6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (to 3 June) (Lieutenant-Colonel H. S. Burgess) 4th Battalion, Border Regiment (Lieutenant-Colonel T. W. A. Tomlinson from 3 June, detached to 1st Armoured Division by 6 June) 1/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (from 27 May, Major B. D. Shaw) Brigade Carrier Platoon
4th Battalion, Border Regiment 1/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. 3rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade. 2nd Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 8th (Belfast) Anti-Aircraft ...
4th Battalion, Border Regiment, 29 October 1944 – 20 February 1945 1st Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool) , 6 May 1945 – 31 August 1945 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers , 27 May 1945 – 31 August 1945
The regiment received the freedom of Lancaster in 1953, before being amalgamated with the Border Regiment into the King's Own Royal Border Regiment on 31 October 1959. In 1953 and 1954, the 1st Battalion of the regiment was stationed in South Korea following the Korean War .
The Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers was a Territorial Army unit of the British Army.. It was formed on 1 July 1999 following the Strategic Defence Review by the amalgamation of the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, Queen's Lancashire Regiment and the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, King's Own Royal Border Regiment.