By the end of the war, the BVRC had earned the battle honours "Ypres 1915", "Neuve Chapelle", "Loos", "Somme 1916", "Ypres 1917", "Lys", "Hindenburg Line", "Messines 1917", "Somme 1918". They had not seen the last of warfare, however. In 1918, the 1 Lincolns were withdrawn from France and sent to Ireland to combat the army of the Irish Republic, declared in 1916. The BVRC benefited from Army Order No.1, which increased the pay of most soldiers in the British Army—but that same Order did not benefit the British West Indies Regiment, which was treated as being "native".