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List of King's Own Officers - 1680 to 1959

Colonel G T E Keith started a definitive of all those who had served with a Commission in the 4th Regiment of Foot, the King's Own Royal Regiment. Work was started in the 1920s and 1930s and the records have been held and maintained by the King's Own Regimental Headquarters and later the King's Own Royal Regiment Museum.

The lists presented here show the officer's forename, surname, date of joining the King's Own as a commissioned officer, and Keith's reference number.

Information on each officer is held in files at the Regimental Museum extracts from which are made available in answer to enquiries.

Officers A	Officers B	Officers C	Officers D	Officers E
Officers F	Officers G	Officers H	Officers I	Officers J
Officers K	Officers L	Officers M	Officers N	Officers O
Officers P	Officers Q	Officers R	Officers S	Officers T
Officers U	Officers V	Officers W	Officers X	Officers YZ

Number	Surname	Forenames	Date
2253	Waddington	William Pierce	1915
1538	Wade	Alexander Price Conolly Herschal	1898
5098	Wade	Donald Hunter	1955
3894	Wadham	Cyril Francis	1940
1645	Wadham	G D	1899
1735	Wadham	Walter FA	1914
2269	Wadie	Reginald Stephen	1915
3090	Wagstaff	Leslie Ralph	1917
4103	Waide	Ivan	1940
5136	Wain	R H A	1963
3688	Wainwright	Thomas Arthur	1932
3459	Wakefield	George Henry	1919
4388	Wakefield	George Potter	1942
4077	Wakeford	William Thornton	1940
2618	Waley	Frank Raphael	1915
3036	Walkden	Norman	1917
4415	Walker	A	1943
4451	Walker	Alfred	1943
4699	Walker	Anthony Bernard	1945
3558	Walker	Brian Edward Blueth	1920
4078	Walker	Bruce Lancasater	1940
968	Walker	Colin	1815
4326a	Walker	Cyril George	1942
4725a	Walker	Eric	1945
1772	Walker	G H	1914
1860	Walker	Harry Rowand	1914
150	Walker	Henry	1693
2699	Walker	Henry Rowan	1916
3027	Walker	Jack Bertram	1917
2904	Walker	James Edward	1917
4588	Walker	James William	1944
4652a	Walker	John Merrifield	1944
671	Walker	Leslie	1799
2506	Walker	Rowland Hutton	1915
2525	Walker	Sidney Frederick	1915
2675	Walker	William	1916
3106	Wall	Allan Mansfield	1917
948	Wall	Henry	1814
3785	Wall	Leslie Newton	1939
5007	Wallace	John David	1950
4653	Waller	Bryan Jack	1944
527	Waller	Smithson	1777
46	Wallham (Malham)	J	1680
377	Wallingford	Viscount	1756
2520	Wallis	Edward Percy	1916
3028	Wallis	Henry	1917
4353	Wallis	Peter Ransom d’Arcy	1942
3317	Walsh	Cyril	1918
259	Walsh	George	1720
893	Walsh	John Hutchinson	1809
5063	Walters	Michael W M	1953
293	Walters	Sheldon	1738
1602	Walton	Louis Alban	1900
4276a	Walton	William Owen	1941
2762	Warbrick	Henry James	1916
724	Warburton	Augustus	1799
911	Ward	Edward	1810
4243	Ward	Frederick Charles George	1941
4844	Ward	George Baxter	1946
4669a	Ward	Harold John	1945
802	Ward	James	1804
1023	Ward	John	1825
2137	Ward	John	1915
1388	Ward	MacGregor Brereton	1870
819	Warde	J	1809
891	Warde	John	1809
4339a	Warde	Walter James	1942
176	Ware	Joseph	1702
4893a	Wareham	John Donald Arthur	1947
4941a	Wareing	Desmond Alfred	1948
3738	Waring	Samuel Carden Ondeslowe	1937
2597a	Waring	William	1916
1605	Warner	Edward Grey	1900
562a	Warner	John	1783
4148	Warner	Walter William Francis	1941
994	Warre	Francis Whitehead	1820
4087	Warre	Sydney Arthur	1940
3895	Warren	Donald Cooper	1940
3442	Warren	John Warren Hoare	1918
4208	Warri-Winram	George Kenneth	1941
1807	Waterhouse	Arved	1914
2331	Waterhouse	Frank	1915
4079	Waterlow	Ronald James Charlton	1940
4250	Waters-Taylor	James McCormick	1941
3773	Waters-Taylor	John Aveline	1939
3271	Watkins	Norman Herbert	1918
1483	Watling	Gordon	1887
4827a	Watson	A J S	1946
3926	Watson	Andrew Page	1940
852	Watson	Feltham	1806
4863a	Watson	George Herbert	1946
3363	Watson	Harry Steel	1918
4176	Watson	Henry William Norwood	1941
3285	Watson	Herbert	1918
2889	Watson	Leonard Arthur	1917
2580a	Watson	P J S	1944
4580	Watson	Philip Joseph Spence
2680	Watson	Rowland Leonard	1916
2906	Watson	William	1917
3726a	Watt	Wallace Gordon	1936
723	Watton	Edward John	1799
3586	Watts	William John	1922
2781	Way	Joseph	1916
3752	Way	Ronald Fitzalan	1937
4229	Wayne	John Barlow	1941
3033a	Wayte	Adrian Barclay	1919
3328	Waywell	Frederick Charles	1918
1946	Wearing	James Williamson	1914
4108	Weaser	Henry Albert George	1940
2167	Weatherhead	Andrew	1915
1621	Weatherhead	George Ernest	1900
4918a	Webb	David Kay	1947
2232	Webb	Frank Burns	1915
3367	Webb	Harold	1918
175	Webb	Joseph	1702
3472	Webb	Robert	1919
1367	Webb	Thomas Bulkeley Knight	1867
1926	Webber	Arthur	1914
2471	Weber	Henry Percy	1915
783	Webster	Alexander	1801
456	Webster	John	1764
1610	Webster	Leveret Beverley	1900
2818	Webster	Norman Steele	1916
63a	Webster	W	1683
711	Webster	William	1799
2901	Weeks	Walter	1917
2049	Weinberg	Julian	1914
3742	Weir	Patrick John Henry	1937
3348	Weir	William	1918
352	Wekett	Tong	1752
366	Welborn	James	1755
4316	Welbourn	Francis Taylor	1942
3779	Welch	Edward Hall	1930
2274	Welch	Eric Arthur	1915
2299	Welch	John	1915
2007	Welch	Robert Hall	1914
2216	Weld	Arthur William Melvile	1915
4771	Wellings	Peter Warren	1945
2054	Wells	Charles Douglas	1914
1436	Wells	Edgar Piozin	1879
4701a	Wells	Horace Guy	1945
1167	Welman	Hercules Atkin	1847
651	Welsford	John	1799
271	Wenman	Nutt	1723
252	Wenman	Richard	1717
4449	Wensley	Ronald William	1943
312	Wentworth	Peregrine	1743
2320	Wesson	Reginald Arthur	1915
849	West	Augustus	1805
3746	West	Dudley Henry Philip	1937
1882	West	Gerald William	1914
3863a	West	Hector	1940
450	West	John	1763
234	West	Rowland	1711
507	West	William	1776
993	Westby		1820
212	Westby	William	1707
2302	Westhead	Joseph William	1915
3443	Westlake	Aubrey John	1918
1066	Westmacott	Robert Marsh	1832
3862a	Westropp	Lionel Henry Montifort	1940
2668a	Westwater	Lindsay A	1916
2382	Westworth	Ernest William	1915
2938	Whaley	Edgar Leslie	1917
5094	Whalley	G A	1954
616	Wharf	Edward	1796
4424	Wharmby	James	1943
70	Wharton	William	1684
2013	Whatham	Alan	1914
2153	Whatham	Philip Twist	1915
3293	Wheatley	Arthur	1918
2003	Wheatley-Crowe	Henry Stewart	1914
3768	Wheeler	Larry Henry Lees	1938
334	Wheeler	Richard	1747
4359	Whelon	John Peter Robert	1942
4032	Whelpton	John Williams	1940
2173	Whiks	Charles	1915
2557	Whitaker	Donald Nicoll	1915
4023a	White	A (or C F)	1940
3000	White	Alexander John	1917
703	White	C E	1799
2936	White	Edwin Thexton	1917
4592a	White	F	1944
4614	White	Frank	1944
4453	White	Gilbert	1943
2732	White	Harold Damant	1916
904	White	James	1810
595	White	John	1793
2334	White	Robert Percy Firth	1915
4080	White	Stanley Alison	1940
2893	White	Stanley Clarke	1940
4991	White	W K K	1949
2711	Whitehead	Charles Stewart	1916
2172	Whitehead	Claude Maguire	1915
342	Whitehead	Samuel	1749
4255	Whiteley	Kenneth Charles	1941
762	Whitfield	Francis	1799
274	Whitfield (also John)	Henry	1724
4696	Whitham	Ronald	1946
1164	Whitlock	George Frderick Foot	1846
3107	Whitmore	Allen	1917
3710	Whitmore	Henry Norman Corbett	1933
4081	Whittack	Frank Ernest	1940
2020	Whittaker	Benjamin T	1914
4256	Whittaker	Eric	1941
4395	Whittaker	James	1942
4693	Whittaker	John Cooper	1945
2969	Whittaker	Norman	1917
4536a	Whittal	Edward James Francis	1944
2001	Whittall	Ernest Bertram	1914
1260	Whittingham	Ferdinand	1857
1524	Whittingham	Thomas Duncan Legh	1894
1368	Whittuck	John Stanley	1867
2235	Whitworth	Charles Stanley	1915
2712	Whitworth	Edward Charles	1916
4411	Whitworth	James Keith	1943
3818	Whitworth	Ronald Garth Housley	1939
3711	Wickham	James Nicholas	1934
2486	Wickham	John Neville Deacon	1915
2381	Wickham	Nottingham Wyke	1915
3667	Wicks	George Frederick	1930
2774	Widdop	Arthur Norman	1916
4269	Wiggin	Victor John	1941
2280	Wigley	Herbert Henry	1915
1688	Wigley	Philip John Reynell	1907
673	Wilbraham	George	1799
1088	Wilby	William	1836
2535	Wilcock	Joseph Mark	1916
3497	Wilde	Alfred	1919
2417	Wilding	Godfrey James	1915
4633a	Wilkes	Harold William	1944
4720a	Wilkinson	Arthur Gordon	1945
2698	Wilkinson	C T	1916
4655a	Wilkinson	Edward Court	1945
3460	Wilkinson	Eric Stancliffe	1919
2769	Wilkinson	Frederick James	1916
1596	Wilkinson	G W	1900
1970	Wilkinson	James Elworthy	1914
3286	Wilkinson	Thomas	1918
3396	Wilkinson	Thomas Edward	1918
1336	Willans	St John	1855
2743a	Willett	Richard	1916
29	Williams		1680
791	Williams	A	1799
752	Williams	Amphlett	1799
2789	Williams	Arthur Dingwall	1916
2561	Williams	Charles Aubrey	1915
4527	Williams	Charles Edward	1943
1983	Williams	Charles Oswald Nicholson	1914
4496a	Williams	Clifford Phillips	1943
2867	Williams	Cyril Graham	1917
4367a	Williams	David Colwyn	1942
2099	Williams	David Gray Lloyd	1914
715	Williams	Edmund	1800
3343	Williams	Edward	1918
725	Williams	Edward or Edmund?	1799
3655	Williams	Ellis Watkin	1938
3121	Williams	Harold Garnett	1917
4994	Williams	Henry Edward	1950
2871	Williams	Henry Thomas	1917
1307	Williams	Herbert John Mainwaring	1859
1629	Williams	I H J	1900
4799a	Williams	Ian Henderson	1946
4345a	Williams	J	1942
3369	Williams	John	1918
4698a	Williams	Keith Michael	1945
2499	Williams	Mark Henry	1915
4732	Williams	Michael Edward	1945
4174	Williams	Michael Hugh Elford	1941
2681	Williams	Norman	1916
3513	Williams	Norman	1919
4189	Williams	Peter Moss	1941
2560	Williams	R	1915
4054	Williams	Ralph	1940
2984	Williams	Richard Almond	1917
1012	Williams	Sir E K	1822
1014	Williams	Thomas	1822
921	Williams	Thomas M	1812
4310	Williams	W	1941
2078	Williams	Walter Gordon	1914
253	Williams	William	1717
3534	Williams	William Sidney	1919
299	Williams or Willamson	Henry	1739
650	Williamson	David	1799
249	Williamson	Edward	1716
1219	Williamson	Ferdinand Hedworth	1855
2735a	Williamson	Francis	1916
614	Williamson	John	1796
3207	Williamson	William Jack	1917
2956	Willis	Ernest	1917
157	Willis	Thomas	1696
3542	Willman	Thomas	1919
3860a	Wills	Harry Horatio Frank	1940
626	Willson	George David	1797
4298	Wilmshurst	K	1942
4398	Wilmshurst	Kenneth	1942
3482	Wilshaw	Frederick William	1919
1087a	Wilson		1837
1324	Wilson	Augustus Nicholas	1861
3378	Wilson	Austin Melville	1918
4160	Wilson	Bryan Harvey	1941
670	Wilson	Charles	1799
1229	Wilson	Charles Thomas	1855
759	Wilson	Christopher	1800
5135	Wilson	D M	1960
5152	Wilson	D M B	1959
3909a	Wilson	Douglas Guy William	1940
1503	Wilson	Frederick Maurice	1890
2257	Wilson	Frederick William Walby	1915
1624	Wilson	George	1900
1710	Wilson	Horace Hayman	1912
1037	Wilson	James	1826
3146	Wilson	James	1917
4501a	Wilson	James Wilford	1943
161	Wilson	John	1695
310	Wilson	John	1745
2423	Wilson	Joseph William	1915
3636b	Wilson	L A	1927
3238b	Wilson	Lewis George	1918
4774a	Wilson	Stanley Frederick Arthur	1945
1434	Wilson	Thomas Richard L	1879
4442	Wilson	William Donald	1943
2383	Wilson	William Edward Paris	1915
1391	Wilton	John Robert	1871
649	Wimbolt	George	1799
2296	Wimbush	Nelson Norman	1915
370	Winchester	James	1756
578	Winckley	Thomas	1788
2193a	Windeler	Charles Francis	1915
3912	Wingfield	Jack Groves	1940
4226	Wingrove	Charles George	1941
2141	Wingrove	Charles William	1915
3809	Winmill	Francis Field	1939
1203	Winniett	William	1852
4208	Winram (see Warri-Winram)	George Kenneth	1941
1210	Winter	Samuel	1854
3971	Winterbottom	John	1940
3498	Witherington	Richard	1919
3397	Withers	John	1918
2530	Withey	Charles Elisha	1915
2988	Withey	James David	1917
3365	Withington	John Edward	1918
2366	Withington	Wilfred Blackwell	1915
4082	Witkin	Philip	1940
3693	Witts	Frank Hole	1933
3432	Witty	Harold	1918
3347	Wolfe	Bernard Anslem	1918
315	Wolfe	James	1744
1846	Wolfendale	William Atkinson	1914
5101	Wollaston	Keith Hyde	1955
1148	Wolleston	Charles Richard	1844
1680	Wolseley	John Francis	1907
1077	Wolsley	Cosby William	1834
4004	Wolstenholme	John Houghton	1940
4929a	Wolstoncroft	Frederick	1947
2445	Wood	Auberon Lewis Arden	1915
4214	Wood	Bernard William	1941
2790	Wood	Colin Maddocks	1916
774	Wood	David	1801
4881	Wood	David James	1946
3211	Wood	Frederick	1917
630	Wood	John	1799
3765	Wood	Peter Baldwin	1938
2500	Wood	Peter Norris	1915
3035	Wood	Samuel Herbert	1917
3164	Wood	William	1917
797	Wood	William L	1803
1977	Woodall	Frederic George	1914
2642	Woodcock	George	1916
2957	Woodcock	Harold Frank	1917
143	Woodcock	Thomas	1693
1811	Woodgate	Austin Bradford	1914
1352	Woodgate	Edward Robert Prevost	1865
1697	Woodgate	Lionel Streatfield	1908
1545	Woodgate	William Ernest Streatfield	1897
3444	Woodhams	Denys Herbert Osmond	1918
3108	Woodhouse	Christopher Hogarth	1917
3568	Woodhouse	Christopher Hogarth	1921
2720	Woodhouse	Ronald Bertram	1916
2877	Woodrow	Alfred Frank	1917
3122	Woods	Henry Elias	1917
2155	Woods	James	1915
3831	Woods	John	1940
128a	Woodstock		1692
143	Woodstock (also Woodcock)	Thomas	1693
4368a	Woodward	Denis Alan	1942
2113	Woodward	Edward Mansure	1915
3083	Woodward	Reginald Rupert	1917
917	Woodward	Thomas	1811
3726b	Woolett	C W	1936
3616	Woolmer	Frederick Montgomery	1925
856	Woolrich	Stephen	1806
747	Wooten	William	1799
973	Wormington	Edward	1816
3963	Worsley	Edward Crompton	1940
3318	Worsley	Harold Robert	1918
1576	Worsley-Taylor	James	1899
3473a	Worthington	John Ramsey	1918
1969	Worthington	Noel Trevor	1914
4247	Worthington	Thomas Henry	1941
4232	Worthy	Alfred	1941
1031	Wortley	Hon Charles Stuart	1826
83	Wrath (also Wroth)	Robert	1685
1832	Wright	Alexander Allen	1914
1361	Wright	Charles Edward	1866
2298	Wright	Christopher Other	1915
4887a	Wright	Douglas James	1946
1308	Wright	Frederick Augustus	1859
3595	Wright	Hugh Other	1923
1615	Wright	Hugh Stackhouse	1900
4271	Wright	James	1941
4448	Wright	Leslie	1943
4806a	Wright	Leslie Arthur	1946
1993	Wright	Robert Lancelot Gerrard	1914
1744	Wright	W O	1914
3557	Wrigley	Edgar Frederick	1920
4540	Wrigley	John	1944
3695	Wyberg	John Gilbert Maxwell	1933
1660	Wylde	E G M	1902
3750	Wyles	Frederick William Boissier	1937
2826	Wylie	George W	1917
649	Wymbolt	George	1799
640	Wynch	James	1799
2248	Wyncoll	Austen Wrench	1915
3451	Wynell-Mayow	Philip Arthur Claude	1918
4289	Wynne	Gerald Herbert	1941
75	Wyville	Francis	1684