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Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Joseph Woodcock

Veterans of the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, with 126 years of service, Brackenber 1907.
On the left is Colour Sergeant Joseph Woodcock, in the centre is Colour Sergeant Richard Watson and the soldier on the right is not known.
Photograph ‘J. Hargreaves Series’
Accession Number: KO3100/62

Drum Major Joseph Woodcock, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and previously 2nd Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at a pre-war Territorial Force Camp.
Accession Number: KO0526/02

Photo: Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Joseph Woodcock, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO0195/06

        
The Barrow motor lorry used for drawing rations from Abingdon and Oxford.  Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Woodcock is sitting in the front on the right.
Captain Albert Hodgkinson, the Quartermaster, writing after the war:  "My recollections of the first days of the war are vague, but one incident stands out clearly.  The 5th Battalion were returning to Lancaster after a hectic week at Barrow, where amongst other things, we had picked up a miscellaneous assortment of transport mainly milk floats, and a superb motor lorry.  The motor lorry drew rations from Abingdon and Oxford.  The milk floats came in useful being stationed at intervals along the 50 miles of railway to deliver rations brought by train to various posts.

Research by the North West Evening Mail in 2014 uncovered the origin of the motor lorry.  EO 746 was one of a pair of Berna Tipper vehicles registered to Barrow in Furness Corporation on 22nd July 1914 (the other was EO 765).  Berna was a Swiss company and it is believed that during the First World War vehicles were assembled in Newcastle upon Tyne by Henry Watson & Son. 

RQMS Woodcock, front right, held the regimental number '92' and had been in the Volunteer Force long before the creation of the Territorial Force and 5th Battalion in 1908.  He went overseas to France on 14th February 1915, and was discharged on 21st November 1916.  His medals, now in the regimental museum, comprise the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal, 1911 Coronation Medal and Volunteer Long Service Medal.  (Medals Accession Number KO0938)  Photograph Accession Number KO0104/45

Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant Joseph Woodcock, number 92, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO3108/01

Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant Joseph Woodcock, number 92, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. With Mrs Woodcock.
Accession Number: KO3108/02

Drum Major Joseph Woodcock, number 92, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. At an annual camp pre-First World War.
Photo by W Johnston, 4 Great John Street, Lancaster
Accession Number: KO3108/03

Drum Major Joseph Woodcock, number 92, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. At an annual camp pre-First World War with another sergeant.
Photo by W Johnston, 4 Great John Street, Lancaster
Accession Number: KO3108/04

Drum Major Joseph Woodcock, number 92, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO3108/05

Drum Major Joseph Woodcock, number 92, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Photo by W Johnston, 4 Great John Street, Lancaster
Accession Number: KO3108/06

Hand over of Drum Major of the 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment with Drum Major Joseph Woodcock, number 92, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment on the right.
Accession Number: KO3108/07

Colour Sergeant Joseph Woodcock, and another man seated, out side a tent and a sign ‘A’ Company, 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, circa 1907?
Accession Number: KO3108/08

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