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First World War

1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - 1915


13 Platoon of D Company, 1st Battalion, King's Own in the support trenches at St. Julien, Ypres Salient, Belgium, 1915.  Sergeant Mann is shaving Corporal Brierley.  The soldier in the front centre is unknown, Private Fuzzy can just be seen behind him.  The two men in the centre of the photograph are Sergeant Williams on the left and Sergeant Noble on the right.
Accession Number KO0081/12


1st Battalion's Rest billets at Grand Rabeque Ferme, 2nd March 1915.  The farm was totally destroyed in the German advance of 1918.
Accession Number KO0247/01


Private Carr of Number One Platoon, A Company, 1st King's Own, in a shelter, Left High Command Trench, Le Touquet Sector.  March 1915.
Accession Number KO0247/02


Private Hines (holding newspaper) and three other members of Number 3 Platoon, A Company, 1st King's Own in Seven Tree Trench, 19th March 1915.
Accession Number KO0247/04


Three men of A Company, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 19th March 1915, near Seven Tree Trench at Le Touquet.  Private Carter is on the right.

Accession Number KO0247/05


A soldier of Number 3 Platoon, A Company, 1st King's Own.  Taken at Seven Tree Trench (a reserve trench in the Le Touquet Sector.  19th March 1915.
Accession Number KO0247/06


Front line of A Company, 1st King's Own in the Le Touquet sector, 5th March 1915.  Left to right are Private Lawless, Corporal Mann and Lance Corporal Foy, all of A Company.  The ruins of 'Machine Gun House' can be seen in the rear.
Accession Number KO0247/07


1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Beaumont Hamel a view of 1925 to be compared with the 1915 photograph.

Accession Number KO0247/08


Three officers of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and the Infantry Base Depot, 1915, left to right: 2nd Lieutenant Henry De Regny Irving, 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Burnard Trappes-Lomax and 2nd Lieutenant Cunham

Accession Number KO0233/01


Two officers of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and the Infantry Base Depot, 1915, left to right: 2nd Lieutenant Ralph Morison Forbes Ross and 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Burnard Trappes-Lomax.

Accession Number KO0233/02


1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Le Toquet Sector, March 1915.
Accession Number: KO0233/04


2nd Lieutenant J Lightbody and his soldier servant, Private Carter, both of Number 1 Platoon, A Company, 1st King's Own.  Taken at Seven Tree Trench near Le Touquet.  March 1915.
Accession Number KO0233/05


Beaumont Hamel Sector, view of British wire and high ground in no man's land in direction of Hawthorn Ridge.  July 1915.
Accession Number KO0233/07


Beaumont Hamel Sector, view of village of Beaumont Hamel (then held by the Germans) taken from a trench on the British Front Line held by A Company of the 1st Battalion, King's Own.
Accession Number KO0233/08


Beaumont Hamel Sector, 27th July 1915.  View of part of communications trench held by A Company of the 1st Battalion, King's Own.  The trench was cut out of solid chalk.
Accession Number KO0233/09


Sketch by Corporal Ellis Williams of the 1st King's Own in around May or June 1915 illustrating an early gas mask.  See a photograph of a similar gas mask here.
Accession Number KO0998/01-81


Beaumont Hamel Sector, France, group of A Company, 1st Battalion, King's Own taken on 30th August 1915.  Left to right, back, Sergeant Taylor (Platoon Sergeant Number 4 Platoon), 2nd Lieutenant J F Mason (Platoon Commander), unknown private.  Front left, Private Unger, either a Pole or Russian and spoke hardly any English. (Research indicates that Number 17867 Private Barnet Unger arrived in France and Flanders on 6th July 1915, he served with both the 1st and 7th Battalions of the King's Own, being transferred to Class Z Reserve on 4th March 1919.  His service is recorded in the British Jewry Book of Honour.) Corporal Williams and Corporal Crompton.
Accession Number KO0233/10


Beaumont Hamel Sector, France, August 1915.  2nd Lieutenant John Lightbody and Sergeant Taylor at the entrance to an old French dugout in the support line on Redan Ridge.
Accession Number KO0233/11


Officers of A Company, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Forceville, 19th August 1915.  Major J W Rowley, with head missing.  Left to right: 2nd Lieutenants Ivo Peart Robinson, John Lightbody and John Issac Mason.

Accession Number KO0233/12


Two officers and senior Non-commissioned officers of A Company, 1st King's Own.  Photograph taken at rest billets at Forceville on 19th August 1915.  Front row, left to right, Sergeant Danvers, Sergeant Taylor, Sergeant Wilde.  Centre is Company Sergeant Major, and later 2nd Lieutenant J W Rowley.  Rear row, left to right, 2nd Lieutenant I P Robinson, Company Quartermaster Sergeant Coney, Sergeant Jackson and 2nd Lieutenant  J F Mason of the 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment attached to the King's Own.
Accession Number KO0233/13


Group of Officers and Non-commissioned officers of A Company, 1st King's Own.  Photograph taken at rest billets at Forceville on 19th August 1915.
Accession Number KO0233/14


NCO's and men of Number 1 Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, King's Own at Forceville, France, 19th August 1915.
Accession Number KO0233/15


NCO's and men of Number 2 Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, King's Own at Forceville, France, 19th August 1915.
Accession Number KO0233/16


NCO's and men of Number 3 Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, King's Own at Forceville, France, 19th August 1915.
Accession Number KO0233/17


NCO's and men of Number 4 Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, King's Own at Forceville, France, 19th August 1915.
Accession Number KO0233/18


Warrant Officer Class 2 Arthur Philip King, of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own RLR, 1914. Photographed in trenches, possibly second from right.
WO2 King served in the Regiment from 1910 to 1917. He was commissioned on 14 Nov 1917 and killed in action ten days later whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2590/336

 

 

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