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How we have changed! page 4 80th Anniversary of the King's Own Royal Regiment Museum The first item accessioned into the museum's collection is a cap
donated by a Sergeant Atkinson of Lancaster, presently on permanent
display. The second item was a 'bomb throwing' medal won by the 7th
Battalion at Christmas 1916. This medal was sent to the Regimental Depot for safe keeping in 1917,
and then forwarded to the museum in October 1928 by Major L I Cowper: The third accessioned item was a brass bed or kit box brass plate: Mr H Y Usher - Regimental Collector Mr H Y Usher was a keen collector of military and regimental items. He worked for Lloyds Bank and by 1939 was manager at the Accrington branch, after the war he moved to Blackpool. Usher donated a couple of items to the museum, and after his death the museum has been able to purchase one or two more. The pair of powder horns, on permanent display and pictured below, being an early example. The most recent of these are the medals of Colonel John Piper, bought at auction, from an American collector, with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2003. A letter to Colonel Cowper from the Deputy Regimental Colonel, Brigadier Burke, in July 1956 stated “I certainly agree that we should try and obtain them [the Piper Medals] on Usher’s death. When is that? I gather he is a pretty healthy man. I think it a very good idea to try and build up a purchase fund by any means we can and I will be grateful if you can initiate something in this direction in the museum.”
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