A message from the Colonel of the Regiment

Welcome to the website of The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment Association.

The website is a key element of how we communicate, engage and serve those in The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, and beyond. Its main purpose is to provide an easily accessible source of enduring information about the Regiment and the wide family it embraces.  It is complemented by our annual regimental journal, the Kingsman, our quarterly newsletters, monthly SITREPS and our busy social media accounts.

This is a new, modern site. It focuses on The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment today, explaining how it is organised, managed and where it is based.  It also explains the support available from The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment Association to members of the Regiment, serving or retired, and their families. As a broad family, it covers our many elements, including cadets, civic links and the naval and military affiliations and alliances we have, both at home and internationally.  These links have been built over our long history, and are part of broad heritage, which we cherish, and the flavour of which is captured by the site.

The website is not an encyclopaedia and is intended for a wide and varied audience. Therefore, it cannot cover everything in detail, but it is a great starting point for those wanting to know about the Regiment and it will assist, guide and signpost those who are looking for more information. In particular it will provide a link to the Regimental Handbook which is our ‘bible’ and source of much more detailed information.

One of the key features of the website is a modern, online shop, which we are sure will greatly benefit the serving, veterans, the wider Regimental Family and friends of the Regiment.

I hope you find the website useful, but please remember it is a living resource that we intend to develop and improve with experience. Enjoy visiting and using it.

Brigadier Rob Singleton.