The final part of the Lion and the Rose trilogy detailing the TF battalions of
the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in the Great War has just been published.

Established in 1914, the 2/5th spent thirty months in England engaged in almost every sort of training other than that which they would need at the Front.
When they deployed to France in 1917, they were pitted against an aggressive and experienced foe.

The Lion and the Rose: A Biography of a Battalion in the Great War tells the story of their struggle to learn the skills necessary to survive in the pitiless arena of modern warfare and their progress to become the fighting equals of any by the end of the war.

With no history written for either 57 Division or the 2/5th, this publication, based on contemporary and unpublished sources, tells their story for the first time.

The book contains sketch maps of the sectors the battalion fought in; accurate co-ordinates for all positions; previously unpublished photographs; the most complete battalion roll yet compiled; and narrates the individual parts played by 1,000 of the officers and men during the war.