40th Foot raised in 1717 as Philips Regiment, the 82nd Foot raised in 1793 and linked as 1st & 2nd Battalions The South Lancashire Regiment in 1881.

Up until 1881 neither units had a Lancashire connection, surprisingly the connection was Somerset.

1958.07.01 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The East Lancashire Regiment, to form 1st Bn, The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)

In 1970 the East & South Lancashires were almalgamated to form The Queens Lancashires.

The Colours are in St Elphin Church Warrington.

Battle Honours WW1
Great War [20 battalions]: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914 '18, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914 '17 '18, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Nonne Bosschen, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Mount Sorrel4, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Pozières, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Drocourt Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18, Baluchistan 1918

Battle Honours WW2
Second World War: Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Odon, Bourguébus Ridge, Troarn, Falaise, Venraij, Rhineland, Hochwald, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45, Madagascar, Middle East 1942, North Arakan, Mayu Tunnels, Kohima, Meiktila, Nyaungu Bridgehead, Letse, Irrawaddy, Sittang 1945, Burma 1943-45

1. awarded 1882 for service of 40th Regiment.

Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum, Preston (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Deployment
1st Battalion

1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
1881 Bengal
1884 Aden
1886 England: Portsmouth
1890 Jersey
1892 Ireland: Birr
1895 Fermoy
1898 England-
1899.12 South Africa 11 Bde
1903 India: Jubbulpore
1906 Raniket
1909 Subathu
1912 Ambala
1914 Quetta
1914.08 Quetta
1919 Afghanistan
1920 Ireland: Dublin
1923 England: Portsmouth
1927 England: Tidworth
1928 Germany Army of Occupation
1929 England: Catterick
1933 England: Plymouth
1936 England: Dover
1938 1st Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
1939.09 France & Belgium 4 Inf Div, BEF
1940.06 UK 3Inf Div
1944.06 NW Europe
1946 Egypt
1946 Palestine
1947.09.12 reduced to cadre
1948.09.19 amalgamated at Trieste with 2nd Battalion without change of title
1948 Trieste
1951 Sudan
1953 England: Barnard Castle
1956.11 Berlin
1957.12 Hong Kong
1958.07.01 amalgamated with 1st Bn, The East Lancashire Regiment, to form 1st Bn, The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)

2nd Battalion

1881.07.01 2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
1881 Devonport
1884 Natal
1887 Malaya
1889 Gibraltar
1892 Malta
1893 Egypt
1895 India: Kemptee
<1899> Jubbulpore
1903 Shorncliffe
1906 Farnborough
1908 Ireland: Curragh
1910 Buttevant
1912 Curragh
1913 England: Tidworth
1914.08 France and Flanders 3 Div
1915.10 France and Flanders 25 Div
1918.06 France and Flanders 21 Div
1918.06 France and Flanders 30 Div
1919 UK
1920 Palestine
1922.10 India: Mhow
1925 Presidency/Assam
1927 Jubbulpore
1930 Landi Kotal
1930 NW Frontier
1933 Allahabad
1936 Quetta
1938.11 1st Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
1939 Bombay
1940.07 UK 29 Inf Bde
1942.03.21 at sea 29 Bde, Force 121
1942.04.22 South Africa 29 Bde, Force 121
1942.04.28 at sea 29 Bde, Force 121
1942.05.05 Madagascar 29 Bde, Force 121
1942.08.20 at sea
1942.08.26 East Africa 29 Bde, Force 121
1942.09.05 at sea
1942.09.10 Madagascar 29 Bde, Force 121
1942.10.16 at sea 29 Bde
1942.10.24 South Africa 29 Bde
1943.01.08 at sea
1943.01.26 India
1944.04 Burma 7 Ind Div
1945 UK
1946 Malta
1947 Trieste
1948.09.19 amalgamated at Trieste with cadre of 1st Battalion