King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Depot & Lancaster, Returning Soldiers, Peace and Medal Presentations, 1919

Depot Groups

Depot Staff, King’s Own, Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster. 18 Feb 1919.
Dorothy Dearle Brooker (later wife of Sergeant Philemon Westwood) standing third from right. Including boy scouts, women and soldiers.
Accession Number: KO2764/16

Wedding of Sergeant Philemon Westwood and Dorothy Dearle Brooker, 16 Aug 1919. Left to right; Susie Hollingshead (friend of Bride and witness) Sergeant Philemon Westwood. Seated Sergeant George Kellett, (witness) and Dorothy D Brooker (bride). Married at Lancaster Register Office.
Accession Number: KO2764/17

Sergeant Philemon Westwood and Dorothy D. Brooker standing at the rear of a group of women, including nurses, at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, 1919.
Accession Number: KO2764/18

Group of Sergeants and Warrant Officers at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster circa 1919 with Sergeant Philemon Westwood seated second from left.
Accession Number: KO2764/20

Battalions Return to Lancaster, 1919

1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Colour Party at Lancaster Town Hall, 1919
Accession Number: KO0630/05

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at Lancaster Town Hall, 22nd June 1919
Accession Number: KO1017/129

2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Return to Lancaster of the Cadre of the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, March 1919.  The battalion was the first to return to Lancaster.  The official welcome was held outside Lancaster Town Hall in Dalton Square, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO0433/01

3rd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

3rd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  Restoration of the Colours of the 3rd Battalion at Lancaster on 15th April 1919 at Lancaster Town Hall, Dalton Square, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO2490/422

1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

         
Watched by the Mayor of Lancaster, Councillor William Briggs OBE, and the Corporation, the Cadre and Colours of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, parade in front of the Town Hall on their return from Germany via Ireland on 17th October 1919.  The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel W G Hoare, DSO, stands to the left of the two mascots, Johnny, a white pony given by the 2nd Battalion, and Joey, an Indian mule found at Ypres in 1915.
Accession Number KO0408/21, KO1533/03 and KO1141/01-30 & detail of Johnny and Joey.

Return of the Cadre of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, who had spent time in Ireland after they had left Belgium in the summer of 1919.  Officers of the regiment are joined by the Mayor of Lancaster, Councillor William Briggs, and the Mayoress, Mrs Mary Briggs.  The officer stood between the Mayor and Mayoress is Captain Noel Briggs, their son.  Captain Albert Hodgkinson, the Quartermaster, is stood on the right.  Photographed on the steps of Lancaster Town Hall 17th October 1919.
Accession Numbers: KO0408/20, KO0439/15, KO1141/01-29, KO1533/04 and KO2490/344

2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Return of the 2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, to Lancaster, 14th June 1919.  Parade outside Lancaster Town Hall, Dalton Square, Lancaster
Accession Number: KO0369/03

Return of the 2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, to Lancaster, 14th June 1919.  Parade outside Lancaster Town Hall, Dalton Square, Lancaster
Accession Number: KO0369/02 and KO2490/343

Discharged Soldiers Band

Lancaster Discharged Soldiers Military Band, 9th June 1919.  This band played in Market Square on 28th June 1919, the day the Peace Treaty with Germany was signed.
Accession Number: LM96-45-732

Medal Presentations, Lancaster, 1919

Presentation of the Mons (1914) Star by General Parker, King’s Own, Lancaster, 11th May 1919. Sergeant Philemon Westwood receiving his medal.
Accession Number: KO0439/18 and KO2764/11

Presentation of the Mons (1914) Star by General Parker, King’s Own, Lancaster, 11 May 1919. Sergeant Philemon Westwood is second from left in front row, identified by the cross.
Accession Number: KO0439/19, KO2764/12 and KO1044/03

1st Battalion, King’s Own recipients of the Mons 1914 Star at Lancaster 11th May 1919.
Accession Number: KO2764/13

Peace Day, 19th July 1919

Peace Day, King’s Own, Lancaster. 19th July 1919. Mix of soldiers and others at the event.
Accession Number: KO2764/15

Also see a Programme of the Peace Celebrations