Enquirers asking for information about specific soldiers who served in the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment / Lincolnshire Yeomanry

We do not hold any personal service records therefore we cannot give enquirers any information relating to soldiers service in the regiment/Yeomanry. Enquirers can obtain service records as follows:

• For Officers or Soldiers whose regular or reserve service ended before 1921 - The National Archives
• Officers or Soldiers whose regular or reserve service ended between 1921 and 1997 - Army Personnel Centre

If the person served during the First World War, The National Archives website www.nationalarchives.gov.uk enables access to medal cards, which should give details of the medals awarded, the regiment or other unit/corps and the service number. The website also has the online catalogue of records.

Enquirers requesting information about the regiment’s activities on a given day or during a given period of time.  If they specifically ask for ‘War Diaries’ see next section

Information relating to the regiments activities is in ‘The Poachers’, ‘The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment’ or John Benson’s books which are available in MLL’s shop or in Lincolnshire’s Libraries.

Enquirers asking for information contained in the   Regimental Archives e.g. War Diaries, Photographs, diaries etc

The regiment’s archive collection is now stored at Lincolnshire Archives. This includes the War Diaries, photograph albums, newspaper cuttings, personal reports/diaries, letters and regimental history books. The material is currently undergoing cataloguing but some items are now available through the search room. Please refer enquirer to Adrian Wilkinson at Lincolnshire Archives.  The archives also have leaflets about WW1 & WW2 source material.

Enquirers asking for information about soldiers killed in the 2 world wars

For servicemen who died in either of the two world wars, they can search the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website www. cwgc.org.uk   this can be accessed free of charge at Lincoln Central Library.

General Family History enquiries

Direct to Lincoln Central Library who offer:

· Free internet access

· Family History   Books, Newspapers, Reference Library, Local Studies Collection

Lincolnshire Archives who hold:

· parish registers

· GRO Indexes

· Parish records and other family related material

Enquirers asking for information about the Museum Collections (not research enquiries)

Take down details of the information required and pass to the relevant Collections Officer/s, or advise the enquirer to contact the Collections Team directly. The officers to contact are Caroline Frisby or Alan Popper for Regimental/Military Collections, Sara Basquill or Paul Heath for Social History, Agricultural & Industrial Collections. Officers can be contacted by letter, phone or e-mail.

Caroline.Frisby@Lincolnshire.gov.uk

Alan.Popper@Lincolnshire.gov.uk

Sara.Basquill@Lincolnshire.gov.uk

Paul.Heath@lincolnshire.gov.uk

Enquirers asking to see un-displayed   items in the Museum Collections  

Please inform the enquirer that they must book an appointment with the appropriate Collections Officer – we have an extremely heavy workload achieving/maintaining the Accreditation Standards required by the MLA and cannot abandon what we are doing even if we are on site.

For regimental collection enquiries (items stored at Lincolnshire Archives)

Caroline.Frisby@Lincolnshire.gov.uk

Alan.Popper@Lincolnshire.gov.uk

Social history, Industrial, Agricultural (items stored at MLL)

Sara.Basquill@Lincolnshire.gov.uk

Paul.Heath@Lincolnshire.gov.uk

Enquirers asking to borrow items in the Museum Collections

Please inform the enquirer that they must put a formal written request to the relevant Collections Officer giving (as set down in the Collections Management Policy) 3 months notice.

Please note– our loans out terms and conditions are very strict and as a general guide we only lend to other accredited museums