King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Second World War

7th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, 1940 - 1942

Officers, 7th Battalion, Colchester, April 1940
Accession Number KO0677/01

Warrant Officers and Sergeants, 7th Battalion, Colchester, April 1940.
Accession Number KO0677/02

Officers' Mess in Northern Ireland, 1941.
Accession Number KO0679/53

Officers of the 7th Battalion, Northern Ireland, 1941.
Rear row, left to right, Captain G E P Rowson, 2nd Lieutenants Simmonds, I A N McLeod, E A Rankine, H Rawcliffe, F R P Boughey, Lieutenant L H L Wheeler, 2nd Lt S L Rickard, Lieutenants Q M Burgess, S P Fawcett and M J Letchford.
Middle row, left to right, Captain Rev J Needham (CF), Lieutenant J W Pike, 2nd Lieutenants G W Robinson, F M Emett, P J Connor, J L Pocock, G C Guest, Lieutenants R J T Ewin, H Smyth, Keith Robinson and Captain Kearns (Medical Officer)
Front row, left to right, Captains W L Odam, E J Jones, J J Turnball MC, F G Gadd, MC, Major R S Lawson (2nd in Command), Lieutenant Colonel E G Pullan MC (Commanding Officer), Major L S Norton, Major W P A Shuttleworth, Captains J Farish, A D Eteson and I E Jacques (Adjutant).
Accession Numbers KO0679/52 and KO0662/01

Group of D Company, 7th Battalion, in Northern Ireland, 1942.
Accession Number KO1384/03

Signal platoon, 7th Battalion, Marbury Hall, Northwich, Jun 1942.
Accession Number KO0679/60

Carrier platoon, 7th Battalion, Marbury Hall, Northwich, Jun 1942.
Accession Number KO0679/61

Visit of the Colonel of the Regiment to the 7th Battalion at Northwich, June 1942.  Lieutenant General Borrett taking the salute.
Accession Number KO0679/58

Visit of the Colonel of the Regiment to the 7th Battalion at Northwich, June 1942.
Accession Number KO0679/57

Visit of the Colonel of the Regiment to the 7th Battalion at Northwich, June 1942.
Accession Number KO0679/56

Visit of the Colonel of the Regiment to the 7th Battalion at Northwich, June 1942.  Left to right is Lieutenant Colonel R P F White, Lieutenant General Sir Oswald Borrett, and 2nd Lieutenant Waters-Taylor.
Accession Number KO0679/59

Warrant Officers, Staff Sergeants and Sergeants of the 7th Battalion, at Marbury Hall, Northwich, Cheshire, 1942.
Accession Numbers KO0679/54 and KO0677/03

Officers of the 7th Battalion, at Marbury Hall, Northwich, Cheshire, 1942.
Rear left to right: 2nd Lieutenants FitzGerald and Holmes.
Third row, left to right: Captain Coleman, 2nd Lieutenants Wellbourn, Poole, Lyon, Waters-Taylor, Taylor, Hassett, Boughey, Juett, Lieutenant Ward and Lieutenant (Quartermaster) Kenyon.
Second row, left to right: Lieutenants Riches, Giffen, Owen, Harriman, Devonshire, McIntosh, Barnes, Robertson, Cowens and Captain Jackson.
First row, left to right, Captains Jones, Odam, Turnball, MC, Gregory, Lieutenant Colonel R P F White, MC, Lieutenant General Sir O C Borrett, Major W P A Shuttleworth, Captain and Adjutant Jacques, Captains Rowson, Emmett and Pocock.
Seated, 2nd Lieutenants Thomas, Reid, Hulme and Lieutenant Rawcliffe.
Accession Number KO0679/55