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Photograph Collection Listing - Collection

First 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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