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3 unusual facts about Royal Lincolnshire Regiment


No. 674 Squadron AAC

The squadron crest bears the Sphynx of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, chosen because of the squadron's initial location at Barkston Heath in Lincolnshire and the close association of the Chief of the Defence Staff with the Army Air Corps (he was the Regimental Colonel) and the Royal Anglian Regiment, the successor to the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

Queen's Champion

The current and 34th Queen's Champion and 33rd Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby, 7th Lord of the Manor of Telford, and of the Manor of Scrivelsby, Thornton and Dalderby, patron of the living of Scrivelsby-cum-Dalderby, and Queen's Champion is Lieutenant-Colonel John Lindley Marmion Dymoke, MBE DL Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

Royal Lincolnshire Regiment

The battalion was charged with protecting the small foreign community in Yokohama.



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