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1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, First World War
Archive.
Documents from file containing Receipted Bills, etc,
France and Belgium, 1916-1919.
From Major N E
Barnes, 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Documents relating to the War
Savings Scheme.
ko1181/196-01 |
Memo from the Regimental
Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding 1st/4th Battalion, King’s
Own, BEF, France. List of names in accordance with Army Order Number
83 of 1 Mar 1918. Extract from Army Form W3274 1 of 2 |
ko1181/196-02 |
Memo from the Regimental
Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding 1st/4th Battalion, King’s
Own, BEF, France. List of names in accordance with Army Order Number
83 of 1 Mar 1918. Extract from Army Form W3274 2 of 2 |
ko1181/196-03 |
Cover note dated 24 May 1918
to OC 1st/4th King’s Own from Records Section, 3rd Echelon, GHQ,
British Salonica Force. ‘The attached memo has been forwarded here in
error’ |
ko1181/196-04 |
Memo from the Regimental
Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding 1st/4th Battalion, King’s
Own, BEF, France. List of names in accordance with Army Order Number
83 of 1 Mar 1918. Extract from Army Form W3274 Dated 1 May 1918 |
ko1181/196-05 |
Memo from Office Commanding
55th Battalion Machine Gun Corps to OC 1st/4th King’s Own re Private R
Patton, number 147247, re War Bonds purchased whilst a member of B
Company, 1st/4th King’s Own. Dated 9 Jun 1918.
See ko1181/028-179 and ko1181/028-180 Private R
Patton, number 35343, 1st/4th King’s Own. |
ko1181/196-06 |
Memo from the Regimental
Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding D Company, 1st/4th
Battalion, King’s Own, BEF, France. List of names in accordance with
Army Order Number 83 of 1 Mar 1918. Extract from Army Form W3274
Dated 11 Jun 1918 |
ko1181/196-07 |
Memo from the Regimental
Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding C Company, 1st/4th
Battalion, King’s Own, BEF, France. List of names in accordance with
Army Order Number 83 of 1 Mar 1918. Extract from Army Form W3274
Dated 11 Jun 1918 |
ko1181/196-08 |
Letter dated 7 Jul 1918 from
2nd Lieutenant Thorpe re War Savings Scheme. |
ko1181/196-09 |
Letter dated 10 Feb 1918 from
2nd Lieutenant Thorpe re War Savings Scheme |
ko1181/196-10 |
Army Form W3273 Application by
Soldier for Exchequer Bonds of 15/6 War Savings Certificate etc.
Duplicated on foolscap paper, not completed. |
ko1181/196-11 |
Army Form W3273 Application by
Soldier for Exchequer Bonds of 15/6 War Savings Certificate etc.
Duplicated on foolscap paper, not completed |
ko1181/196-12 |
Routine Orders by Major
General H S Jeudwine, Commanding 55th (West Lancashire) Division 18
Feb 1918. “Lieutenant Park” written in pencil on one side.
Including Prevention of Mange, War Savings, Rum and
PH Helmets.
969 Rum
Issue of Rum will, from 19th instant inclusive, be
restricted to men in trenches and those entitled to Trench Rations (viz:-
Gun Positions Personnel etc). Owing to shortage the issue may be
further curtailed at an early date. |
ko1181/196-13 |
Army Form C 348 Memorandum,
from Regimental Paymaster, Preston to Officer Commanding 1st/4th
King’s Own dated 17 Jun1918 re War Savings Certificates |
ko1181/196-14 |
Note to 2nd Lieutenant A J
Thorpe, 1st/4th King’s Own, Imprest Holder, to Regimental Paymaster,
Preston, re War Savings Certificates |
ko1181/196-15 |
Documents relating to the War
Savings Scheme
Letter from Private Walter Nixon, number 11903, B
Company, 1st/4th King’s Own re War Savings Certificates.
Private Walter Nixon is recorded as having served
with the 9th, 1st/4th and 2nd/5th King’s Own on the War and Victory
Medal rolls. |
ko1181/196-16 |
Letter to Comptroller and
Accountant General, General Post Office, dated 11 Jun 1918 re War
Savings Campaign. |
ko1181/196-17 |
Letter to Major R Gardner,
1st/4th King’s Own dated 5 Jul 1918 from General Post Office re War
Savings Certificates. |
ko1181/196-18 |
Letter from Lieutenant Park,
1st/4th King’s Own, dated 5 Feb 1918, to Comptroller and Accountant
General, General Post Office, re Army Forms W3273 for men of the
King’s Own, War Savings Certificates. With acknowledgement on the
rear dated 9 Feb 1918. |
ko1181/196-19 |
Examples of Investment in War
Savings Certificates after 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. |
ko1181/196-20 |
Letter from Major Gardner,
Commanding, 1st/4th King’s Own dated 26 Nov 1918, to Comptroller and
Accountant General, General Post Office, re Army Form W 3273 for
Sergeant A G Holmes, number 202167, formerly of the 1st/4th King’s
Own. |
ko1181/196-21 |
Letter from Cox & Co dated 12
Jun 1918 to Lieutenant A J Thorpe, 1st/4th King’s Own, re War Savings
Certificates in the names of N Smith and A Thomson. |
ko1181/196-22 |
Letter from Cox & Co dated 20
Jun 1918 to Lieutenant A J Thorpe, 1st/4th King’s Own, re War Savings
Certificates for Private John Catlow, Private Benjamin Greenhalgh and
Company Sergeant Major Richard Walker. |
ko1181/196-23 |
Letter from Cox & Co dated 29
may 1918 to Lieutenant A J Thorpe, 1st/4th King’s Own, re War Savings
Certificates for Private John Catlow, Private Benjamin Greenhalgh and
Company Sergeant Major Richard Walker. |
ko1181/196-24 |
List of officers and men
applying War Savings Certificates |
ko1181/196-25 |
List of officers and men
applying War Savings Certificates Number 7 Platoon, B Company, 1st/4th
King’s Own. Dated 3 Feb 1918. |
ko1181/196-26 |
List of officers and men
applying War Savings Certificates Number 5 Platoon, B Company, 1st/4th
King’s Own. Dated 3 Feb 1918 |
ko1181/196-27 |
List of officers and men
applying War Savings Certificates Number 6 Platoon, B Company, 1st/4th
King’s Own |
ko1181/196-28 |
Letter from Cox & Co to
Lieutenant A J Thorpe, dated 4 Jun 1918, re War Savings Certificates
in the name of N Smith and A Thomson. |
ko1181/196-29 |
Letter to Commanding Officer,
1st/4th King’s own, re War Savings Certificates from Private Harry
Kinder, number 202350, D Company, 1st/4th King’s Own, from Number 6
Ward, Fell Lane War Hospital, Keighley, Yorkshire.
Sent on to 2nd Lieutenant Thorpe from Major
Gardner, dated 29 Apr 1918. |
ko1181/196-30 |
Letter to Commanding Officer,
1st/4th King’s Own, re War Savings Certificates from Private Arthur
William Yare, number 26850, 12 Platoon, C Company, 1st/4th King’s Own,
c/o Bed 46, Kitchener Ward, Red Cross Hospital, Great West Road,
Gloucester. Dated 18 May 1918. |
ko1181/196-31 |
War Savings Certificates:
“Instructions to Squadron and Company Officers When Soldiers Wish to
Invest” |
ko1181/196-32 |
Hand written copy of document
showing unit return for War Savings Scheme, 1 Mar 1918 |
ko1181/196-33 |
Hand written financial
workings out |
ko1181/196-34 |
Hand written notes and names
relating to Numbers 6 and 7 Platoons, 1st/4th King’s Own. |
ko1181/196-35 |
Hand written notes and names
relating to 14,15 and 16 Platoons, 1st/4th King’s Own. |
ko1181/196-36 |
Letter dated 4 Feb 1918 from
the London Joint Stock Bank Limited, re War Savings Certificates for
£500 in the name of William Penrhyn Boddington Draper, dated 21 Dec
1917.
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