King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

First World War

Album: 1st/5th King's Own, Home, France and Belgium, 1914-1916, from the collection of the Major W Fawcett. Page Two 

Some of these images appear in the First World War Gallery.

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Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Looking back at Ypres Near Hellfire Corner, Belgium, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/044

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Shelling Menin Road, Belgium, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/045

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Shelling near Sanctuary Wood, 23 May 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/046

Shelling Menin Road, near Ypres, Belgium, 1915.  Private Carr is sat in the trench, you can see the 'T 5 King's Own' brass shoulder title in the bottom right hand corner.
Accession Number: KO0784/047

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 2nd Lieutenant Parkinson in dug out at Zillebeke
Accession Number: KO0784/048

Zillebeke Trenches, Belgium, May 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/049

Trenches near Zillebeke, May 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/050

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Lieutenant J Parkinson
Accession Number: KO0784/051

Snipers Mask.
Accession Number KO0784/052

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Leave Bus 4 am 5 Jun 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/053

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Shelling Zillebeke Trenches, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/054

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Shelling Zillebeke Trenches, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/055

Captain Harris, unknown and Lieutenant Mansfield outside the battalion's huts at Zevecoton, Belgium, spring 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/056

Huts at Zevecoton, Belgium, spring 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/057 

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 A Coy on parade at Zevercoton
Accession Number: KO0784/058

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Captain Fawcett and Zevecoton Wood
Accession Number: KO0784/059

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Regimental Sergeant Major Snelson and French Officer
Accession Number: KO0784/060

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Captain Fawcett and Deed
Accession Number: KO0784/061

The first gas masks, June 1915.  1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/062

Ablution benches, with wooden huts visible in the tree line, near Ypres, 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/063

'Chatting' or removing the flees and lice from clothing.
Accession Number KO0784/064

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Lieutenant Bell and Briggs
Accession Number: KO0784/065

Chatting' or 'de-lousing' in the trenches near Ypres.
Accession Number KO0784/066

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 HQ Mess La Clytte, Jul 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/067

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Captain Fawcett on Horseback
Accession Number: KO0784/068

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 A Coy at La Clytte, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/069

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Scharpenberg, Jul- Sep 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/070

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Scharpenberg with Colonel Cadman, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/071

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Scharpenberg with three officers - Lieutenant Phipp, Colonel Cadman, and 2nd Lieutenant Harold ?
Accession Number: KO0784/072

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Scharpenberg with 2nd Lieutenant Phipp, Colonel Cadman and Captain Fawcett
Accession Number: KO0784/073

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Camp at Scharpenberg, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/074

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Divisional Band at Scharpenberg, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/075

Field Kitchens, 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/076

Cook House, Sergeant G Streeton and his staff, near Ypres, 1915.  Sergeant Streeton, number 822/240055, worked at Storey Brothers in Lancaster.
Accession Number KO0784/077 

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Dutch Ovens
Accession Number: KO0784/078

Private H Greg, roasting joints in 'Dutch' ovens, 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/079

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Officers Oven with Private Cornthwaite
Accession Number: KO0784/080

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Batman’s Bivouac
Accession Number: KO0784/081

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 On fatigue
Accession Number: KO0784/082

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Lieutenant Bell and Horse
Accession Number: KO0784/083

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Colonel Cadman and Captain Fawcett
Accession Number: KO0784/084

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Colonel Cadman and Lieutenant Bell
Accession Number: KO0784/085

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Lieutenant Bell, Transport Officer, and Lieutenant Hodgkinson, Quartermaster,
Accession Number: KO0784/086

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Officers Mess Cookhouse, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/087

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Officers Mess Cookhouse, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/087a

Corporal Parsonage, part of the Quartermaster's Department and the dog 'Shrapnel', 1915.  George Parsonage, number 47, arrived in France on 14th February 1915 and was discharged on 1st April 1916.
Accession Number KO0784/088

There is a poem about 'Shrapnel', within the archive of Captain Albert Hodgkinson, the Quartermaster of the 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Ode in honour of our Regimental Pet ‘Shrapnel’ who attained the honour attending maternity  1st May 1916 at Saulty, Pas De Calais.

All Hail! The bonny first of May
In all the year, of days the day
When Earth seems bright with sunshine and glitter
Today our hearts are unco glad
For though we dinna ken the dad
‘tis true our dear old Shrap has had some litter

Long since we picked her up at Ypres
E’vn then we vowed that we would keep her
As time rolled on our love grew deeper and more
That she’s become a petite mere
It surely would be hardly fair
To ‘see her off’ – a dog so rare!  Bow-wow!

Of rats she’d take no kind of heed
She’d lots of points, with little breed,
And now she but to lie and feed her pups
They number just a lucky three
But though they have no pedigree
Their butchers if they die will be Herr Krupps

They came when times were bad, its true
In time they’ll be reduced to two.
The price of meal (and puppies too) is up.
When I this fact to you unfold
Do no despair – for I’ve been told
That Kaiser Billy had been sold “Von Pup”
CQMS Ewan, 1 May 1916

By Acting Colour Sergeant James Ewan, number 2043 / 240472, 1st/5th King’s Own.

Reducing officers kitbags to 35 lbs in weight.  Near Ypres, 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/089

Only a proportion of our collections are on display at anyone time.  Certain items are on loan for display in other institutions.  An appointment is required to consult any of our collections which are held in store.