Photograph Collection
Listing - CollectionFirst World War
Album: 1st/5th King's Own, Home, France
and Belgium, 1914-1916,
from the collection
of the Major W Fawcett. Page One
Some of these images appear in the First
World War Gallery.
Page One Page Two
Page Three
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1914 Cook House, Didcot Station
Accession Number: KO0784/001
Private James Radcliffe Mawson, number 2152, at Didcot Railway Station, September
1914. Mawson died of wounds on 24th April 1915. His father, Thomas
Mawson, was a landscape architect of note and was one of the group
responsible for the establishment of the War Memorial Village at
Lancaster.
Accession Number KO0784/002
'Part of the famous 200' at Didcot, 1914. From
left to right: William Alfred Morris (number 2166, with C Company, wounded
on 9th April 1915. Discharged 10th January 1916), G Jackson
(discharged unfit), F Happold (later commissioned into the York and
Lancaster Regiment), R Gardner, H Dolan, J
Gilchrist, E R Simpson, H Cross and Harry Harold Wright (number 2030, with
A Company, wounded on 26th April 1915. Renumbered to 240467 and
discharged on 3rd January 1918.)
Accession Number KO0784/003
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1914 Part of the famous 200 at Didcot
Accession Number: KO0784/004
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1914 Sergeant Tyson and Great Western
Railway Guard at Didcot
Accession Number: KO0784/005
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1914 North Moreton Guard, Didcot
Accession Number: KO0784/006
The guard at North Moreton, near Didcot, preparing a
meal. Sergeant C Austin, number 1757/240339, is on the extreme right, he
lived at Gerrard Street in Lancaster, went across to France on 14th
February 1915 and was wounded, but returned to duty, on 13th April 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/007
Group at Moreton Bridge, near Didcot, including Sergeant
Davies, Corporal Whiteside and Austin. Sadly it is not clear who is
who.
Accession Number KO0784/008
Guard on railway bridge at South Moreton near Didcot,
1914.
Accession Number KO0784/009
For an unknown reason the sentry at South Moreton
railway bridge is accompanied by a goat!
Accession Number KO0784/010
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1914 Parade at Knole Park, Sevenoaks
Accession Number: KO0784/011
The caption for this photograph names Lieutenant Lloyd Evans and 2nd
Lieutenant R Gardner at St. Martin's, Sevenoaks. Both were later
commissioned in 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/012
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1914 Captains Atkinson, Parsons and
Carter
Accession Number: KO0784/013
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Ship sunk in Le Havre Harbour, 15
Feb 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/014
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Le Havre Harbour, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/015
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 On board Manchester Importer, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/016
Left to right, Groom Turner, Lieutenant H Bell and
Lieutenant E M Lloyds Evans on board the 'Manchester Importer' as it
arrives at Le Havre.
Accession Number KO0784/017
The 1st/5th Battalion arrived in France on 14th February
1915, this photograph is at the port of Le Havre. Left to right are
Privates J R Mawson, H Dolan, Davies, W A Morris and Sergeant Ralinson.
Accession Number KO0784/018
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Sauvic Camp, France, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/019
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Sauvic Camp, France, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/020
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Indian Troops at Rouen, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/021
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Lieutenant Bell, Transport Officer,
Belgium, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/022
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Typical Belgian Road
Accession Number: KO0784/023
Soldiers rejoining the battalion, possibly from leave or having being
wounded, at Winnigeel, Belgium, 1915.
1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/024
The battalion's transport, former London Buses, near Bailleul, Belgium, 2nd
March 1915. 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/025
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Winnizeel - Bailleul Transports, 2
Mar 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/026
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Bailleul Town, Mar 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/027
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Messines Trench 6 Mar 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/028
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Trench scene 7 Mar 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/029
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Trench scene 7 Mar 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/030
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 A Trench in winter, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/031
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 A view into No Mans Land Mar 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/032
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 '10 A' Support trench, Messines
Road, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/033
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Shell Bursting in Trees, Messines
Road, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/034
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Looking back towards Wulvergham,
Belgium, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/035
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Captain Fawcett in support
Accession Number: KO0784/036
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Trench scene with Sergeant Alfred
Clowes and Sergeant Nelson. Messines Ridge, Belgium.
Accession Number: KO0784/037
Left to right, Sergeant Nelson, Captain Fawcett and
Sergeant Clowes, Belgium 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/038, KO2490/446 and KO 2795/01
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Bailleul Town, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/039
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Tea Farm, Wulverghem Digging
shelter trench, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/040
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Behind Tea Farm
Accession Number: KO0784/041
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Boeschek
Accession Number: KO0784/042
Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Sharing HQ Farm with Gordons
Accession Number: KO0784/043
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