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The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) is an Infantry regiment of the British Army , part of the King's Division . It was formed in 1970 through the amalgamation of the two remaining Lancashire infantry regiments, the Lancashire Regiment (Prince Of Wales's Volunteers) and the ''' Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) '''. Since then, the QLR has served several times in Northern Ireland (with eight of its number killed). The regiment was also the last British Battalion to serve in Berlin prior to the final withdrawal in 1994 . Through the 1990's, the regiment had a regular Army battalion (1QLR) and a Territorial Army battalion (4QLR). 4QLR was merged with the Territorial element of the King's Own Royal Border Regiment to form the Lancastrian And Cumbrian Volunteers as part of the Strategic Defence Review . The regiment saw extensive service in Iraq as part of Operation Telic , and was at the centre of the first serious accusations of Abuse against Iraqi prisoners levelled at British soldiers. These accusations were illustrated on the front pages of the Daily Mirror by photographs which the Ministry of Defence and subsequently denounced as staged fakes. The Mirror later found "sufficient evidence to suggest that these pictures are fakes and that the Daily Mirror has been the subject of a calculated and malicious hoax." Editor Piers Morgan was forced to resign when he refused to apologise. During the controversy a senior officer of the Regiment was reported by the BBC as saying 'this Regiment has taken on Louis XIV , Napoleon , The Kaiser and Hitler . I don't think Piers Morgan is going to be a problem'. There has however been at least one case of true abuse; three members of the regiment were court martialled after real pictures of prisoner abuse surfaced. The QLR is now based in Cyprus . On 16th December 2004 , it was announced that the Queen's Lancashire Regiment would be merged with the King's Regiment and the King's Own Royal Border Regiment into the two battalion Duke Of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire And Border) . SEE ALSO : Lancashire Queens Regiment Museum |
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