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Photo Gallery

1920s and 1930s

4th and 5th Battalions, King's Own Royal Regiment, 1920s and 1930s

bulletMayor's visit to Phoenix Street Drill Hall, Lancaster, 5th Battalion, Feb 1936
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Camp, Crag Bank, 1920
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Camp, White Lund and Fleetwood, 1921
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 1922
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Hornby, 1923
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Camp, Crag Bank, Carnforth, 1923
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Rhyl, 1925
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Holyhead, 1927
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Holyhead, 1928
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Slyne, Lancaster, 1929
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Kinmel Park, Rhyl 1931
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Holyhead, 1936
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 1937
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Catterick, 1938
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Abergavenny, 1939
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Album of Unknown Officer, 1920s-1930s
bullet4th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp, Catterick, August 1938
bullet4th Battalion, King's Own, Groups
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Groups
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Mess Functions
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Parades
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Prize Giving
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own Album of Photographs 1919-1962
bullet4th Battalion, King's Own, Sports
bullet5th Battalion, King's Own, Sports
bullet4th Battalion, King's Own, Opening of Drill Hall in Dalton
bulletUnidentified Photographs

4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment


Colour Party of the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, at Holyhead.  Photograph by Edward Jones, Photographer, 1 Victoria Road, Holyhead.
Accession Number: KO3046/59


Colour Party of the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, at Holyhead.  Photograph marked 'Vernon Foster, Chemist, Barrow'.
Accession Number: KO3046/60


Presentation of an award to a soldier of the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, possibly at a Territorial Army Annual Camp at Holyhead, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO3046/61


Group of senior Non-Commissioned Officers, Regimental Sergeant Major and a Captain, ‘D’ Company, 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO3074/83


Group of nineteen soldiers of the King’s Own Royal Regiment, Corps of Drums. Circa early 1920s, as some are wearing First World War medal ribbons. Has the feeling of a Territorial Army group, possibly 4th Battalion from the dry stone wall to the rear?
Accession Number: KO3124/25


Band and Drums of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, 1935
Accession Number: KO3074/82


Company Group of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1920s.
Photograph by A W Pierce, Nottingham, and numbered ‘763’
Accession Number: KO3100/13


Camp of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Ramsey, Isle of Man
Accession Number: KO2490/501


Group of King’s Own Territorials at a post war camp, 1920s. Probably 4th King’s Own, from shoulder title, men are also wearing the 55th West Lancashire Division flash.
Accession Number: KO2948/05


4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Past and Present Commanding Officers who were at the Trooping of the Colour at Lancaster, 13 Jul 1930, being the 250th Anniversary of the Raising of the Regiment.
Colonel R Thompson, TD, 1894-1926; Colonel G H Huthwaite, VD, 1876-1912; Lieutenant Colonel W FA Wadham, VD, 1887-1918; Lieutenant Colonel W H B R Kennedy, 1911.
Accession Number: KO0362/01 and KO0925/01


4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Former Commanding Officers, of the 4th Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel R Thompson, Lieutenant Colonel W H B R Kennedy, and Lieutenant Colonel WFA Wadham. Giant Axe Field, Lancaster Jul 1930
Accession Number: KO0674/02 and KO0674/08


4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Lieutenant Colonel W H B Kennedy, Lieutenant Colonel R J Brookes, CBE, DSO, Lieutenant Colonel WFA Wadham and Captain R S A Jones.
Accession Number: KO0674/09

 

5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment


King’s Own Royal Regiment soldiers, probably of a Territorial Battalion, on parade, circa 1929.
Postmarked Lancaster and Morecambe, 8th August 1929
Accession Number: KO3100/03


5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Annual Christmas Shoot, Crag Bank 11th September 1932
Accession Number: KO0343/05


5th Battalion King’s Own Colour Party en route from Station to Camp 1930s
Accession Number: KO2490/231

 


5th Battalion King’s Own Bill Morge, Ron Gregory, Ted Hallam and Dick Seward outside tents.
Accession Number: KO2490/236


5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Kinmel Park, Ryhl, 1931.
R H Sear’s burnt out tent
Accession Number: KO2490/237


5th Battalion King’s Own Captain R S Gregory Officer Commanding, Machine Gun Company receiving a Sports Cup from the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel L I Cowper
Accession Number: KO2490/238


5th Battalion King’s Own ‘The Littlest and the Biggest’ circa 1931
Accession Number: KO2490/240


5th Battalion King’s Own Route March, Lieutenants F M Johns, D. Seward, E Ashworth.
Accession Number: KO2490/241


5th Battalion King’s Own Major G Oglethorpe on horse back.
Accession Number: KO2490/242


5th Battalion King’s Own Guard Mounting at Camp
Accession Number: KO2490/243


5th Battalion King’s Own Retreat with the Drums and Pipes
Accession Number: KO2490/244


5th Battalion King’s Own Captain Robert Percy Firth White MC - Adjutant.
Accession Number: KO2490/245


5th Battalion King’s Own Lieutenant Colonel James M Rawcliffe MC, Mounted.
Accession Number: KO2490/246


5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Colonel William George MC TD Medical Officer
Accession Number: KO2490/248


5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Machine Gun Company, Company Sergeant Major C Hennedy and Company Quarter Master Sergeant Simpson
Accession Number: KO2490/249


5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Machine Gun Company, Company Sergeant Major C Hennedy and Company Quarter Master Sergeant Simpson
Accession Number: KO2490/251


5th Battalion King’s Own Captain E W Williams DCM, Quartermaster
Accession Number: KO2490/252


5th Battalion King’s Own Major G Oglethorpe, on horseback
Accession Number: KO2490/253


5th Battalion King’s Own Officers Mess Staff with Sergeant Dick Burgess seated
Accession Number: KO2490/256


5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, City of Lancaster Celebrations, 2 Oct 1937, Band in procession
Accession Number: KO0586/02


Unidentified officer and soldier of a Territorial battalion of the King’s Own Royal Regiment
Accession Number: KO1642/04


Four unidentified King’s Own Soldiers believed to be of a Territorial Battalion, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2184/01



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