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Roll of Honour of Soldiers of the King's Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster,
who died between 1920 and 1939.The Commonwealth War Graves
Commission commemorates all soldiers of the regiment who died in World War
One, and some up to 1921. The list below is compiled from The Lion and The
Rose, the regimental journal, and other non-official sources. It is
expected that it is not a full list. Some of those recorded a
members of the Territorial Army and are recorded as having died, but only
rarely whilst serving.
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Private John (Jack) James Adams, number 3707136, Depot, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died after three weeks training at Bowerham Barracks
Lancaster. 7/8 Sep 1928. Buried Lancaster Cemetery. |
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Corporal James Adams, number 3710756, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died as a result of dysentery at the General Hospital
Sarafand, Palestine on
13 Nov 1938
age 24 years. |
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Private J Ainsworth, number 3526673, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
11 Jul 1937.
Whilst this soldier is listed in some records as King's Own Royal
Regiment, he is buried in Nicosia War Cemetery and his grave is marked
1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment. His number is a Manchester
Regiment number and the Manchester Regiment were based on Cyprus at the
time. This listing appears to be incorrect, but is retained for
information. |
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Private William Edward John Baker, number 3703475, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died
22 Mar 1924
at the Civil General Hospital in Rangoon. |
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Private Walter Barlow, number 3712249, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died in Sarafand Hospital, Palestine, as a result of
injuries sustained in a motor accident
13 May 1939. |
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Company Sergeant Major John Barry, number 7212729, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died at Aldershot on
13 Feb 1928,
records state that he was discharged on 29 Jan 1918. |
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Sergeant William Berry, number 3701343, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died in Exmouth
27 July 1929. |
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Private George Bettany, number 3704575, King’s Own Royal Regiment
(Territorial) Died 28 Mar 1930 at Lancaster. |
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Private Roger Bibby, number 3704622 King’s Own Royal Regiment.
(Territorial) Died
29 Oct 1924
at Carnforth. |
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Sergeant Robert Blundell, number 3701290, King’s Own Royal
Regiment (Territorial) Died 14 Feb 1931 at Fleetwood. |
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Private Frederick Booth, number 3701500, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
17 Mar 1925.
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Private John Brady, number 3703864, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
14 Jul 1925
at Barrow from pneumonia. |
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Private Eli Breakwell, number 3701821, 1st Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died on 23 Jun 1921 Buried in Ulverston Cemetery, Son of
John and Mary Breakwell, and husband of Edith Maud Breakwell, of 3
Spring Gardens, Ulverston. Born in Barrow in Furness, age 25 (some
records state 32) at time of
death. |
| Private William Herbert
Alfred Brown, number 3702555, King's Own Royal Regiment. Died
16 Aug 1934. Attested for military service at Chelmsford on 8
April 1918 at the age of 14 years and 2 months, with the first number
38710. |
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Private William Budsworth, number 3521538, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
16 Feb 1930
at Aldershot. |
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Private Abraham Budworth, number 3701734, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
24 Nov 1926
following fracture of the spine by fall off roof, accidental. |
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Sergeant John Carrick DCM, number 3702413, 2nd Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Accidentally drowned, Rangoon, Burma,
29 Oct 1922.
Originally number 2490, 200476 of the 1/4th Battalion, King’s Own, then
30759 with the 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment and finally
3702413. |
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Major Cyril Rodney Carter, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Accidentally slipped on deck of troop ship from India to Sudan
and died in
Port Said
or Port Sudan hospital on
17 Dec 1929.
(Conflicting reports to hospital location). |
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Private Albert Casson, number 3703772, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
15 Aug 1926
Barrow in Furness. |
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Private Thomas Newton Chantler, number 3704686, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
29 May 1925
from road traffic accident. |
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Private Robert Chrystal, number 3852802, 1st Battalion King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Headquarters Wing. Died in the Citadel Military
Hospital, Cairo, Egypt,
24 Jun 1934,
aged 24 years. |
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Private John Clarke, number 3709473, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died at the Military Hospital, York,
11 Jul 1930.
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Private John Alfred Clayton, number 3702848, formerly 51002, 2nd
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died, accidentally, at
Maymyo,
Burma,
14 Nov 1920,
age 20 years. Son of Mr and Mrs Clayton of Miles Platting,
Manchester. Now buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma. |
| Lance Corporal John
Joseph (James) Colgan, number 3524713, 2nd Battalion, King's Own
Royal Regiment. Killed whilst on patrol, on the night of 24th/25th
September 1938. Lance Corporal Colgan was on patrol when he got
out of his truck and was shot by an Arab sniper, believed to be from the
village of Yibna. |
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Private Frank George Cooper, number 3703698, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
29 Apr 1923
at the British Station Hospital, Rangoon, India. |
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Private James Cottam, number 3710934, 1st Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died 12 Apr 1936. Buried in
Wellington,
South India. Wellington
Memorial |
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Private Thomas Robert Cragg, number 3703364, 1st Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died in Military Hospital, Shorncliffe, Kent,
8 Jan 1923.The body taken to Lancaster for burial. |
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Private Joseph Cronshaw, number 3704706, King’s Own Royal
Regiment (Territorial) Died 21 Jan 1931 at Lancaster.
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Private Henry Cunliffe, number 3703316, 1st Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment Died at Prescot, Lancs. 5 May 1925. |
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Private John James Cutler, number 3706886, King’s Own Royal
Regiment (Territorial) Died 12 Aug 1924 at Barrow in Furness, whilst at
work. |
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Private Eric Darby, number 3701102, King’s Own Royal Regiment
(Territorial) Died 5 Jun 1928 at Barrow in Furness. |
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Corporal William Davidson, number 3704112, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
24 Feb 1929
at Backbarrow. |
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Private James Thomas Dennis, number 3703448, 5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died 8 Jan 1924 drowned at sea ‘ST. Angle’
The Fleetwood team Trawler ‘ST Angle’ was lost with all hands on
8 Jan 1924
on Bahamas Bank, Isle of Man. |
| Private Harold Dickinson,
number 3710696, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment. Killed
by a shark whilst bathing from Fort Beach, Madras, on 26 Feb 1939.
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Private William Gudgeon Dickinson, number 3704363, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died
1 Oct 1922
Ulverston. |
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Private James Digan, number 3853868, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Killed in Action at Gaza, Palestine
12 Nov 1938
- age 26 years. 2nd Battalion digest records shot dead in town of
Gaza, he was a member of a traffic control post operating in the town. |
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Private James Doyle, number 3701789, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
18 Apr 1924
in Manchester from gastric ulcer. |
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Private Frank Doyle, number 3707029, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died 9 May 1925 at the
Military
Hospital, Shorncliffe, Kent. |
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Private Clarence Farrington, number 3708693, 1st Battalion King’s
Own Royal Regiment, Machine Gun Company. Died in
Palestine General
Hospital, Sarafand,
Palestine
10 Sep 1931.
“A model soldier and an athlete of exceptional promise.” |
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Lance corporal John Fisher, number 3701167, King’s Own Royal
Regiment (Territorial) Died 23 May 1925 at Preston from double pneumonia
and meningitis. |
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Drummer John Godfrey, number 3702261,
2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died at Rawalpindi, India
1 Apr 1929,
aged 26 years. |
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Private William Golding, number 3703428, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
20 Aug 1932. |
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Private Sidney Edward Grant, number 3701727, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died 7 Feb 1932 at Ulverston. |
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Private George Fred Green, number 3701681, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
15 Nov 1921. |
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Band Boy John Griffiths, number 3704202, 2nd Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died
20 Apr 1923
from drowning in a lake. Buried in Rangoon, Burma, died
aged 15 years. |
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Private William Alfred Grimes, number 3704467, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
20 Apr 1925
from dysentery at Murree Hill Station Hospital, India. |
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Sergeant John Alfred Guilfoyle, number 3701364, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died 8 Mar 1923 at sea on board HMT Somali. |
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Private George Cephar Hardman, number 3708288, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
25 Sep 1933.
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QMS Harry Alexander Hardy, number 3702000, formerly 26660, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died
15 Oct 1920. |
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Private Frederick James Harris, number 3701247, King’s Own Royal
Regiment (Territorial) Died 5 May 1922 at Lancaster. |
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Private Charles Robert Henry Harvey, number 3708767, 1st
Battalion King’s Own Royal Regiment “S” Company. Died in the Citadel
Military Hospital, Cairo,
6 Jul 1934. |
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Private William Taylor Haslam, number 3703892, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
14 Apr 1922. |
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Private Charles Edward Hawker, number 3708552, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died 7 Nov 1927 at Ulverston. |
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Private A Haworth, number 50924, (some records state 50439) 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died at Mandalay,
2 Jan 1920,
age 20 years. Cause of death: Malaria. Originally buried in
the Mandalay War Cemetery, since relocated to the Taukkyan War Cemetery. |
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Lance Sergeant Maurice Hensey, number 3707017, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died in Government Civil Isolation Hospital, Haifa, Palestine
from malaria, 10 Oct 1931. “A popular and very cheerful NCO”.
After a preliminary service at the Chapel of the Carmelite Sisters,
Haifa, he was buried in Sarafand Military Cemetery. |
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Private Albert Hill, number 3707853, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
30 Jan 1927
at the British Hospital, Port Said, from appendix abscess. |
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Private William John Holland, number 3702691, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died on the night of 12/13 Jun 1931 as a result of a motor
cycle accident at Civilian Hospital, Chorley. |
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Drummer Frederick William Hollis, number 3703431, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died accidentally
7 Dec 1921. |
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Private W Holt, number 4908, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died at
Barrow in Furness on
22 Jul 1927. |
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Private Thomas Henry Holt, number 3702439, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died at Rawalpindi
12 Feb 1930
from pneumonia. |
| Private Charles Frank
Hudson, number 3710634, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Died on 2 Nov 1937 at Madras. Grave erected by his parents and
comrades. |
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Corporal William Hunter, number 3701204, King’s Own Royal
Regiment (Territorial) Died 16 Nov 1931 at Lancaster. |
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Private Tom Irlam, number 3710110, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
10 Feb 1935
1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, whilst stationed at
Wellington, Southern India. Wellington
Memorial |
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Gerrard Samuels Irvine, 1st Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Found dead in the garden of his home
“Flagstaff House”, Main Barracks, Wellington, South India,
2 Mar 1937. Cause of death: gunshot wound in
the head. Buried in the
Military Cemetery, Wellington. Commanding Officer of the Battalion. Born
11 Dec 1891.
Educated: Oundle School, Northamptonshire & RMC Sandhurst. 2nd
Lieutenant
11 Oct 1911
Lieutenant
13 Sep 1914,
Captain
10 Oct 1915.
Major
1 Dec 1928
Lieutenant Colonel
8 Nov 1935.
Severely wounded & prisoner of war: 26 Aug 1914. A flower stand to his memory was
placed In the Regimental Chapel. Wellington
Memorial. |
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Private Leo Jackson, number 3701196, King’s Own Royal Regiment
(Territorial) Died 24 Sep 1924 at Bentham, North Yorkshire. |
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Private William Henry James, number 3709364, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
12 Sep 1931.
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Private Albert Johnson, number 3701707, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
15 Feb 1928
at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, from tuberculosis. |
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Private Edward Oliver Jones, number 6733848, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
15 Jul 1923
at the British Station Hospital in Rangoon. |
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Corporal William Kaighan, number 3704587, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. (Territorial) Died
26 May 1930. |
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Lance corporal Alfred Kelly, number 3702448, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
1 Jul 1927.
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Private Edward Kent, number 3701879, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
10 Aug 1925.
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Private Christopher Kilbourn, number 3707444, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
3 Nov 1934. |
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Private Albert Lacey, number 3701603, 1st Battalion King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died in
King
George V Hospital, Dublin,
14 Oct 1922.
Buried in
Grangorman
Cemetery. |
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Private Frederick Lane, number 3708319, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died 2 Oct 1930 at
Blackpool. |
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Lance Corporal John Albert Law, number 3704952, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died at
Cambridge
Hospital, Aldershot,
16 Jul 1928. |
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Private Arthur Lawton, number 3709755, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
27 Apr 1932
at the Military Hospital, Lichfield. |
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Sergeant Frederick Charles Lee, number 3703875, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
13 Aug 1927
at Lancaster from gun shot wound to the head. |
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Private Francis Leigh, number 3708472, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died at Atbara, Sudan, on
8 Mar 1930
from pneumonia. |
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Private Stanley Lloyd, number 7808107, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
13 Jun 1924
at Baguley Sanatorium. Formerly number 11119 King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment. 1 KO 1914 Star. Disembarked France, 23 Aug 1914. Transferred No 18762 Private
Machine Gun Corps Died on
13 Jun 1924
as number 7808104, King’s Own. |
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Sergeant William Longhorn, number 3704618, 5th King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
Friday 13 Aug 1937
whilst at annual camp with 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment at
Ramsey, Isle of Man. Had served First World War with 5th King’s Own and
rejoined after the war. Died age 44 years buried at Skerton Cemetery,
Lancaster. |
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Sergeant Malcolm MacKay, number 3701405, King’s Own Royal
Regiment attached to the Military Works Department. Died
13 Mar 1921, age 36.
Son of Angus and Mary MacKay of Glendale, Isle of Skye.
Commemorated on the Kirkee War Memorial, India. |
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Private James Martin, number 3710067, 1st Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died
21 Sep 1936
whilst stationed at Wellington, accidentally drowned. Wellington
Memorial |
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Acting Drummer Charles McCarthy, number 3707699, 1st Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died in Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot,
10 Nov 1926
from tuberculosis. |
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Private John McGowan, number 3708701 King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
18 Dec 1927
at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary from pneumonia. |
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Private Thomas William Metcalfe, number 3706205, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
2 Oct 1925
at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary,
Lancaster. |
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Private Thomas Montgomery, number 3707043, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
2 Apr 1925
of pneumonia. |
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Private William Moscorp, number 3703913, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
2 Apr 1927
at Ulverston from pneumonia. |
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Sergeant Alfred James Moseley, number 3704203, 2nd Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Killed in Action at Gaza, Palestine
26 Oct 1938
age 31 years. 2nd Battalion Digest records “died as a result of
discharge of very light pistol discharged by himself by accident” |
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Armourer Staff Sergeant R Mursell, number 2204304, Royal Army
Ordnance Corps attached to King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died at
Aldershot
on
20 Jan 1935.
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Private James William Nutter, number 3707877,
2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died at Murree 1 Jun 1929 Died of Enteric fever at Murree
Hospital buried at Gharial. |
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Private Harry Oldfield, number 3707346, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
13 Oct 1926
at Salford. |
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Private John William Oldham, number 3702364, 1st Battalion King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died of wounds at King George V Hospital , Dublin,
having been shot accidentally by a guard on duty at the Royal Hospital,
Dublin,
16 Feb 1921.
Buried in Ashton-Under-Lyne (Hurst) Cemetery,
Lancashire,
United Kingdom. |
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Private John Parkinson, number 3703053, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died at Lancaster
25 Dec 1930.
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Private James Parkinson, number 3709587, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
21 Jun 1931
at Barrow in Furness. |
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Private Albert Edward Parris, number 3703001, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
28 Jun 1926
at the British Station Hospital, Murree, India. |
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Bandsman Mark Percival, number 3645255, 1st Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died of wounds in the King George V Hospital, Dublin,
having been shot in the chest by “rebels” whilst on duty in an escort
vehicle, 17 May 1921.Buried in England. Lance Corporal Percival, the
deceased’s brother was NCO in charge of the vehicle. Buried in Widnes
Cemetery, Lancashire. Son of Mark and Mary Percival of 12, Alpha
Street, Widnes. |
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Private Stanley Pickvance, number 3854075, 1st Battalion, The
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died at Madras,
28 Dec 1937.
Grave erected by his comrades. |
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Private Albert Henry Pilcher, number 3701057, King’s Own Royal
Regiment (Territorial) Died 20 Oct 1932 Accidentally drowned, Piel
Island Barrow in Furness. |
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Private Henry James Porter, number 3704951, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died at Rawalpindi,
23 May 1929
from malaria in the
British
Military Hospital at Rawalpindi. |
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Private William L Robinson, number 3710602, 1st Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 9 Nov 1936. Buried in Wellington, South India. Wellington
Memorial |
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Private Joseph Rooney, number 3701133, King’s Own Royal Regiment
(Territorial) Died 29 Nov 1924 at Barrow in Furness. |
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Private David Rutherford, number 3709331, 1st Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. C Coy. Died at Abbassia, Egypt,
12 Jul 1934. |
| 2nd Lieutenant
Reginald
Bernard Veilly Savill, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Died as a result of a road traffic accident whilst on patrol on the
Jerusalem-Hebron highway, Palestine, 25th May 1939. Buried at
Ramle Military Cemetery. |
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Private Thomas Sheen, number 3703382, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
13 Aug 1926
at Murree, India. |
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Sergeant Herbert Victor Sheldon, number 3702870, 2nd Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died
30 May 1922
buried in Rangoon. Poisoned by incorrect medicine purchased by himself. |
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Private J H Smith, number 1422937, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
30 Dec 1936.
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Private Thomas Smith, number 3706875, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died at Royal Lancaster Infirmary
18 Jan 1929. |
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Private Harry Havelock Stainfield, number 727171, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died
26 Jul 1922
accidentally shot at
Preston. |
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Private Thomas Steen, number 3703382, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died at
Murree,
India, aged 24 years, whilst serving with ‘B’ Company. |
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Albert Sweeney, number 3703293, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
20 Sep 1920
at Dublin, age 33. Husband of Mrs M Sweeney, of Adelphi Street,
Bowerham, Lancaster. Buried in Lancaster Cemetery. |
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Private Robert Henry Taylor, number 3701082, King’s Own Royal
Regiment (Territorial) Died 22 Feb 1926 at Barrow in Furness from
appendicitis. |
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Private William Francis Waterworth, number 3710381, 1st
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died
13 Oct 1936.
Buried in Wellington, South India. Wellington
Memorial |
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Private Albert Edgar Whitehead, number 3706868, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
21 Feb 1925
at Barrow in Furness. |
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Private Thomas Leonard Williamson, number 3704013, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died
3 Jun 1927
from heart failure. |
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Private William Willson, number 3703870, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
16 Oct 1928
at Lancaster with Bronchial pneumonia. |
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Private Richard Wohlers, number 3708804, King’s Own Royal
Regiment. Died
22 Nov 1929.
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Private Joseph Wood, number 3708265, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Died
27 Feb 1939. |
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Private Leslie Wyatt, number 3704139, 1st Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. D Company. Died in King George V Hospital, Dublin, 6/7
Sep 1922. |
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