First I'll start with some history of the Lincolnshire regiment (source http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/)
starting with the pre 1914 section 1685 - The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was raised in 1685 and was first called The Earl of Bath's Regiment of Foot.
1747 ranked as 10th Foot
1751 - 10th Foot
1782 - 10th (North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
1801 - Awarded the Sphinx emblem and Honour EGYPT for service under Wellington. The Lincolnshire regiment fought on the Nile against the French (Napoleon).
1846 - The Regiment's most famous Battle Honour was gained at SOBRAON during the Sikh Wars in India.
1881 - The Lincolnshire Regiment. The Regiment was reorganised as the county regiment of Lincolnshire, also including its Militia and Volunteer infantry.
"The Poachers"
The Regiment's nickname, "The Poachers", is said to have come from the custom of giving poachers (and people found guilty of various other offences) the choice of military service if they were to avoid deportation.
WWI Battle honours (the ones in bold are the rough time frame of this figure)
Mons
Le Cateau
Retreat from Mons
Marne 1914
Aisne 1914, 1918
La Bassée 1914
Messines 1914, 1917, 1918
Armentiéres 1914
Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917
Nonne Bosschen
Neuve Chapelle
Gravenstafel
St. Julien
Frezenberg
Bellewaarde
Aubers
Loos
Somme 1916, 1918
Albert 1916, 1918
Bazentin
Delville Wood
Poziéres
Flers-Courcelette
Morval
Thiepval
Ancre 1916, 1918
Arras 1917, 1918
Scarpe 1917, 1918
Arleux
Pilckem
Langemarck 1917
Menin Road
Polygon Wood
Broodseinde
Poelcappelle
Passchendaele
Cambrai 1917, 1918
St. Quentin
Bapaume 1918
Lys
Estaires
Bailleul
Kemmel
Amiens
Drocourt Quéant
Hindenburg Line
Epéhy
Canal du Nord
St. Quentin Canal
Beaurevoir
Selle
Sambre
France and Flanders 1914-18
Suvla
Landing at Suvla
Scimitar Hill
Gallipoli 1915
Egypt 1916.
The following information on the battle is from Wikipedia. For reference the Lincolnshire regiment was part of II Corps.
Morning
At dawn on 23 August a German artillery bombardment began on the British lines; throughout the day the Germans concentrated on the British at the salient formed by the loop in the canal.[24] At 9:00 a.m., the first German infantry assault began, with the Germans attempting to force their way across four bridges that crossed the canal at the salient. Four German battalions attacked the Nimy bridge, which was defended by a company of the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and a machine-gun section led by Lieutenant Maurice Dease. Advancing at first in close column, "parade ground formation", the Germans made easy targets for the British riflemen, who hit German soldiers at over 1,000 yards (910 m), mowing them down by rifle, machine-gun and artillery fire. So heavy was the British rifle fire throughout the battle that some Germans thought they were facing batteries of machine-guns.
Map showing the disposition of Allied and German forces at the battles of Mons and Charleroi on 22–23 August
The initial German attack was thus repulsed with heavy losses and the Germans switched to an open formation and attacked again. This attack was more successful, as the looser formation adopted by the Germans made it more difficult for the British to inflict casualties rapidly. The outnumbered defenders were soon hard-pressed to defend the canal crossings, and the Royal Fusiliers at the Nimy and Ghlin bridges faced some of the day's heaviest fighting; only piecemeal addition of reinforcements to the firing line and the exceptional bravery of two of the battalion machine-gunners allowed them to hold off the German attacks. At the Nimy bridge, Dease took control of his machine gun after every other member of his section had been killed or wounded and fired the weapon despite being shot several times. After a fifth wound he was evacuated to the battalion aid station, where he died. At the Ghlin bridge, Private Sidney Godley operated the other machine-gun throughout the day and stayed behind to cover the Fusilier retreat at the end of the battle. Godley surrendered after throwing parts of the gun into the canal to prevent its capture by the Germans. Both soldiers were awarded the Victoria Cross, the first two awarded in the First World War.
To the right of the Royal Fusiliers, the 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, and the 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, were equally hard-pressed by the German assault on the salient. Greatly outnumbered, both battalions suffered heavy casualties but with the addition of reinforcements from the Royal Irish Regiment, from the divisional reserve and effective fire support from the divisional artillery, they managed to hold the bridges. The Germans expanded their attack, assaulting the British defences along the straight reach of the canal to the west of the salient. The Germans used the cover of fir plantations that lined the northern side of the canal and advanced to within a few hundred yards of the canal to rake the British with machine-gun and rifle fire. The German attack fell particularly heavily on the 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, which despite many casualties, repulsed the Germans throughout the day.
Retreat
Lieutenant Maurice Dease of the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. For his actions at Mons, he became one of the first two recipients of the Victoria Cross in the First World War; the award was posthumous
By the afternoon the British position in the salient had become untenable; the 4th Middlesex had 15 officer and 353 other ranks killed or wounded. To the east of the British position, units of the German IX Corps had begun to cross the canal in force, threatening the British right flank. At Nimy, Private Oskar Neimeyer had swum across the canal under British fire to operate machinery closing a swing bridge. Although he was killed, his actions re-opened the bridge and allowed the Germans to increase pressure against the 4th Royal Fusiliers.
At 3:00 p.m. the British 3rd Division was ordered to retire from the salient, to positions a short distance to the south of Mons and a similar retreat towards evening by the 5th Division to conform. By nightfall II Corps had established a new defensive line running through the villages of Montrœul, Boussu, Wasmes, Paturages and Frameries. The Germans had built pontoon bridges over the canal and were approaching the British positions in great strength. News had arrived that the French Fifth Army was retreating, dangerously exposing the British right flank and at 2:00 a.m. on 24 August, II Corps was ordered to retreat south-west into France to reach defensible positions along the Valenciennes–Maubeuge road.
The unexpected order to retreat from prepared defensive lines in the face of the enemy, meant that II Corps was required to fight a number of sharp rearguard actions against the Germans. For the first stage of the withdrawal, Smith-Dorrien detailed the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Division, which had not been involved in heavy fighting on 23 August, to act as rearguard. The 5th Brigade fought a holding action at Paturages and Frameries, the Brigade artillery in particular inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans. At Wasmes, elements of the 5th Division faced a big attack, German artillery began bombarding the village at daybreak, and at 10:00 a.m. infantry of the German III Corps attacked. Advancing in columns, the Germans were immediately met with massed rifle and machine-gun fire and were "mown down like grass." For a further two hours, soldiers of the 1st West Kents, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, and 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, held off German attacks on the village despite many casualties and then retreated in good order to St. Vaast.
On the extreme left of the British line, the 14th and 15th Brigades of the 5th Division were threatened by a German outflanking move and were forced to call for help from the cavalry. The 2nd Cavalry Brigade, along with the 119th Battery RFA and L Battery RHA, were sent to their aid. Dismounting, the cavalry and the two artillery batteries screened the withdrawal of the 14th and 15th Brigades in four hours of intense fighting. I've probably put too much history down here but I've been researching on and off since I got the kit.
for the last few months