Blazer Badge, The King's Own Royal Regiment. Private Arthur Bent.
Accession Number: KO1228/03
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Nilgiri Hills,
Drums leading march, 1937
Accession Number: KO1228/04
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Wellington
company group photo
Accession Number: KO1228/05
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Band and Rums
at Cairo, Egypt, 1934
Accession Number: KO1228/06
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Beating Retreat
at Wellington in Southern India
Accession Number: KO1228/07
Photo: 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Drums at
Lichfield, 1933
Accession Number: KO1228/08
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Football team,
1937
Accession Number: KO1228/09
Photo: Grave of Lieutenant Colonel C G S Irvine in Wellington
India died 2 Mar 1937
Accession Number: KO1228/10
Photo: 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Parade at
Lichfield, 1932
Accession Number: KO1228/11
Photo: Depot, 1932, Sergeant McCabes Squad of training soldiers
Accession Number: KO1228/12
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Ceremonial
Parade, Egypt, 1933
Accession Number: KO1228/13
Photo: St. George’s Church, Wellington, 1935, Reverend
Richard Marmaduke Langdale-Smith and the Choir.
Standing: W Collingwood and W
Collingwood.
Seated, left to right: W Price, G D Eleazer (Organist);
J Cookson; Reverend B M Langdale-Smith; A C Bent; B Boland; G Taylor.
Boys, left to right: H Green; G Ellwood; R Young; W Ellwood; A Mulvany;
T Nutall.
Accession Number: KO1228/14
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. The Drums,
Madras, 1937-38
Accession Number: KO1228/15
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. St. George’s
Day Parade at Wellington, 1934
Accession Number: KO1228/16
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Mena Camp, Near
Cairo
Accession Number: KO1228/17
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Accommodation
at Fort St. George, Madras, 1937
Accession Number: KO1228/18
1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Charles Bent playing in the band
at the married quarters family Christmas party Madras circa 1937-38
Accession Number: KO2549/007
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Arthur C Bent and
two others Madras, India, 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/008
Photo: Arthur Bent, Alexandria, 1st Battalion, King’s Royal
Regiment. , 1934
Accession Number: KO2549/009
Photo: Christmas card with photo of Colour Sergeant Arthur Bent
from Nairobi 1944
Accession Number: KO2549/011
Photo: Colour Sergeant Arthur Bent with two men of the 4th
King’s African Rifles 1944
Accession Number: KO2549/012
Group photo of King’s African Rifles 1943 including Colour Sergeant
Arthur Bent
Accession Number: KO2549/013
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Arthur Bent -
‘Outside the tent 50 yards from the sea at Alexandria, Egypt, 1934’
Arthur Bent looking out with hand above eyes
Accession Number: KO2549/014
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Arthur Bent at
Alexandria, Egypt, 1934, sat on deck chair
Accession Number: KO2549/015
Photo: Some of the men of the King’s African Rifles, circa 1943
Accession Number: KO2549/016
Christmas card with photo of Colour Sergeant Arthur Bent from
Nairobi Nov 1943
Accession Number: KO2549/017
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Bandsmen Mick Quinn
and Arthur Bent circa 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/018
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Bandsman Arthur
Bent circa 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/019
Photo: Troopship HMT Neuralia
which to the 1st Battalion to Egypt and then later from Egypt to
Bombay, 1930s.
HMT Neuralia
Sister ship of the Nevasa she was built in Glasgow in 1912 for the
British India Steam Navigation Company.
She survived many U-Boat attacks through the Second World War but
was finally sunk in the Gulf of Taranto with the loss of four lives
when she hit an Italian mine on 1st May 1945.
Accession Number: KO2549/020
Photo: King’s African Rifle’s 1944 Sergeant McGartland, Company
Sergeant Major Taff and Company Quartermaster Sergeant A C Bent
Accession Number: KO2549/021
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Arthur Bent,
Madras, India 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/022
Photo: Company Sergeant Major Arthur Bent, at Jorhat, Assam,
1945
Accession Number: KO2549/023
Christmas Card with photo of Arthur Bent from East Africa 6 Oct
1942
Accession Number: KO2549/024
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Drummer Arthur C
Bent, Cairo, Egypt, 1933-34. Coloured photograph.
Accession Number: KO2549/025
Photo: Private Arthur C Bent, circa 1932
Accession Number: KO2549/026
Christmas Card with photo of Arthur Bent from East Africa, 11
Nov 1943
Accession Number: KO2549/027
Photo: King’s Own Royal Regiment Group of three soldiers, two
Lance Corporals and one private sat on Motorbike
Accession Number: KO2549/028
Photo: King’s African Rifles, 1944 group of three with Company
Quartermaster Sergeant A C Bent
Accession Number: KO2549/029
Group photo A Company 2/4 (V) King’s African Rifles, circa 1943
Accession Number: KO2549/030
Photo: Depot, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Bowerham Barracks,
circa 1932, three soldiers including Bent and Morgan
Accession Number: KO2549/031
Photo: King’s African Rifles officer group including Arthur Bent
circa 1943
Accession Number: KO2549/032
Photo: Private Arthur Bent, circa 1932, possibly at Bowerham
Barracks
Accession Number: KO2549/033
Photo: King’s Own Royal Regiment, Group of six soldiers, at
Lancaster possibly at Bowerham Barracks, circa 1932. Named as
Oliver, Morgan, Bent and Matthews
Accession Number: KO2549/034
Picture postcard of Fort Gates at Mysore
Accession Number: KO2549/035
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Drum Practice,
Wellington circa 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/036
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Drums - Nilgari
Hills, dated as 1934-35
Accession Number: KO2549/037
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. View of Wellington
including bridge and railway line at Wellington, Southern India
Accession Number: KO2549/038
Accession Number: KO2549/39
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. soldiers parade
with kit on display - Octacamund Downs, Southern India, 1934
Accession Number: KO2549/040
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Arthur Bent,
Madras, Southern India, 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/041
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Drums on route
march, Wellington, Southern India, circa 1937, coloured photograph
Accession Number: KO2549/042
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Lance Corporal A C
Bent in Blues Uniform, Wellington 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/043
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Lance Corporal A C
Bent in Scarlet Uniform, Wellington, 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/044
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Drums on parade
Wellington Barracks, 1937 with the Royal West Kent Regiment’s
Drummers
Accession Number: KO2549/045
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. village scene near
Army Quarters, Wellington, 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/046
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Soldiers and tents
at Octacamund Downs, Southern India, circa 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/047
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Band at Chick
Banaram, India circa 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/048
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. ‘Five minutes smoke
during flute practice Wellington, Southern India’ circa 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/049
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Drums on football
field, southern India circa 1937
Accession Number: KO2549/050
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Tents at Nanjangud
near Bangalore, 1936, where the battalion had a service for the late
King George V
Accession Number: KO2549/051
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Signal Section at Chick
Banaram, near Bangalore, Southern India, 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/052
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Regiment. Band on the march,
India, circa 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/053
Photo: Troopship HMT Nevasa,
taken on arrival at Port Said, circa 1934, 1st King’s Own.
HMT Nevasa (1912)
Launched on 12 Dec 1912 by Barclay, Curle & CO, in Glasgow for the
British India Steam Navigation Company (sister ship to the Neuralia)
her maiden voyage took her from London to East Africa and Calcutta
on 22 Mar 1913. In August 1914 she was converted to a troopship and
resumed commercial service in 1919. In 1925 she was permanently
rebuilt as a troopship and was used for both school children’s trips
and troop carrying in the 1930s. In 1939-45 she was used steadily as
a troop carrier between the UK, India, Basra, Madagascar and for the
Normandy Landings.
She was scrapped in 1948.
Accession Number: KO2549/054
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. group of three
soldiers, including Arthur Bent, taken at Cairo 1933
Accession Number: KO2549/055
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Beating the
retreat at Wellington circa 1935
Accession Number: KO2549/056
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Arrival at
Octacamund Downs, Southern India, 7500 ft above sea level. 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/057
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Drums of the
1st King’s Own and the West Kent Regiment at Wellington, Southern
India, Aug 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/058
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Company Group
at Cairo, Egypt, 1933
Accession Number: KO2549/059
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Group of
soldiers waiting to entrain at Bombay for a three day journey to
Wellington, Southern India. Including Jones, Fox, Bert, Gilmore
circa 1934/35
Accession Number: KO2549/060
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. at Wellington
Barracks on parade - proclamation day for King George VI just before
departing for training, 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/061
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Lance Corporal
Arthur Bent circa 1936 in tropical whites
Accession Number: KO2549/062
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Lance Corporal
Arthur Bent circa 1937 in blues
Accession Number: KO2549/063
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Private Arthur
Bent circa 1935, India
Accession Number: KO2549/064
Photo: M’Meru Warrior, East African Types No 17 - ‘this is the
type of fellow who amused us the other evening’ circa 1943
Accession Number: KO2549/065
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. group on
Octacamund Downs, Southern India circa 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/066
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Private Arthur
Bent, Christmas 1935, at Wellington, Southern India
Accession Number: KO2549/067
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Corporal Jack
Dale, Drums inside Barracks at Madras, Southern India, 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/068
Photo: Troopship HMT Neuralia
which took the 1st battalion from Southampton to Egypt and then a
year later from Egypt to Bombay
HMT Neuralia
Sister ship of the Nevasa she was built in Glasgow in 1912 for the
British India Steam Navigation Company.
She survived many U-Boat attacks through the Second World War but
was finally sunk in the Gulf of Taranto with the loss of four lives
when she hit an Italian mine on 1 May 1945.
Accession Number: KO2549/069
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Arthur Bent in
Cairo on the back of a camel near the Pyramids circa 1933
Accession Number: KO2549/070
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Arthur Bent,
Cairo 1933, in Barracks
Accession Number: KO2549/071
Photo: 2/4 King’s African Rifles group, 1943 including Sergeant
McGartland, Lieutenant Murphy, Captain Saure, Company Sergeant Major
Taft and Company Quartermaster Sergeant Arthur Bent
Accession Number: KO2549/072
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Arthur Bent
with white tropical uniform, Madras, Southern India, 1934
Accession Number: KO2549/073
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. soldiers on
exercise, camping near Jungle, Southern India, 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/074
Photo: Palace at Mysore, India, 1936
Accession Number: KO2549/075
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Parade on football
pitch, circa 1937, Wellington, India
Accession Number: KO2549/076
Photo: 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Soldiers and
kit ‘What a mess!! This is how we spent twelve hours before leaving
the quayside of Bombay’
Accession Number: KO2549/077
Photo: Arthur C Bent of the 1st Cadet Battalion, The London
Regiment, circa 1930
Accession Number: KO2549/078
Photo: Arthur C Bent of the 1st Cadet Battalion, The London
Regiment, circa 1930
Accession Number: KO2549/079
