Question: 1st 4th battalion king's own royal lancaster regiment

title: King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
text: The 1st Battalion , King 's Own was stationed in Malta on the outbreak of war , moving to Karachi in British India at the end of 1939 . It later served with the 17th Indian Infantry Brigade . It subsequently served in Iraq and Syria with 25th Indian Infantry Brigade , with which it served until October 1943 , of 10th Indian Infantry Division . In August 1942 , the battalion embarked from Egypt for Cyprus , but the transport was torpedoed and the troops had to return and re-embark later . In May 1943 , the battalion returned to Syria , and then it joined 234th Infantry Brigade in the Aegean Islands in October 1943 . Here , the bulk of the battalion was captured by the Germans on 16 November , after the Battle of Leros , with only 57 officers and men managing to escape the island . The 1st Battalion was reformed in 25th Indian Infantry Brigade , on 30 January 1944 , by amalgamating with the 8th Battalion , King 's Own . The reformed battalion , under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Neville Anderson , later served in the Italian Campaign with 25th Indian Brigade for the rest of the war .