Soldiers of the RegimentLance
Corporal Sidney Cartmell
Lance Corporal Sidney Cartmell, number 2094/240500 of the
1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, enlisted as one
of the 'Lancaster Pals' on 4th September 1914. He served with the
1st/5th Battalion on the Western Front, was wounded twice and eventually
discharged due to those wounds.
Army Form B 2067A Cover for documents.
Accession Number: KO1417/01
Post Office Telegraph dated 17 Oct 1916 to Jacob Cartmell, 80 Dorrington
Road, Lancaster. Concerning Lance corporal Cartmell, number 2094, of the
1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Reported
Dangerously ill at 17th Casualty Clearing Station, France.
Sheet one of two
Accession Number: KO1417/02a
Post Office Telegraph dated 17 Oct 1916 to Jacob Cartmell, 80 Dorrington
Road, Lancaster. Concerning Lance corporal Cartmell, number 2094, of the
1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Reported
Dangerously ill at 17th Casualty Clearing Station, France. Permission to
visit cannot be granted.
Sheet two of two
Accession Number: KO1417/02b
Post Office Telegraph dated 22 Oct 1915 to Cartmell, 80 Dorrington Road,
Lancaster. Concerning Lance Corporal Cartmell, number 2094, of the
1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Had received gun
shot wounds but was now improving.
Accession Number: KO1417/03
Letter to Mrs Cartmell from Chaplain A A Bull, written at 17 Casualty
Clearing Station, France on 15 Oct 1916 about Lance corporal Sidney
Cartmell, number 2094 of the 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1417/04
Letter to Mr Cartmell, from Chaplain A A Bull, CF, written at 17
Casualty Clearing Station, France, on 23 Oct 1916.
Dear Mr Cartmell,
In reply to your letter received this morning, your son is going on
quite well, I am glad to say and the Doctor seems satisfied with the
progress he is making.
His right leg was fractured and he is also wounded in the left hand and
about the cheek and head, but these are more or less superficial I think
and are healing nicely.
His progress must necessarily be slow, but he keeps in good spirits,
sleeps and eats fairly well and we look forward to his complete
recovery.
I have just seen him again and he has read your letter and would be glad
if you could write to him.
With his love.
Yours very truly
A A Bull CF
Accession Number: KO1417/05
Wounded soldier label to Lance Corporal Sidney Cartmell, number 2094,
1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, dated 16 Oct
1916
Accession Number: KO1417/06a
Outer envelope for wounded soldier label to Lance Corporal Sidney
Cartmell, number 2094, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, dated 16 Oct 1916
Accession Number: KO1417/06b
Group of seven soldiers of the 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment at Didcot, with the postmark stating 10 Sep 1914. Lance
Corporal Sidney Cartmell, number 2094/240500 of the 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment is marked with an ‘x’.
To the rear of the photograph can be seen the Didcot Corn Exchange,
Didcot Railway Station and the Prince of Wales Hotel.
The postcard is postmarked ‘Didcot’ and dated 10 Sep 1914. Addressed to
Miss B Cartmell, 80 Dorrington Road, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO1417/07
Group of three men, two in civilian clothes and in the centre Lance
Corporal Sidney Cartmell, number 2094/242500 of the 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Postally used but date unclear.
Addressed to Mrs Cartmell, 80 Dorrington Road, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO1417/08
Lance Corporal Sidney Cartmell, number 2094/240500, of the 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Accession Number: KO1417/09
This previously unidentified photograph in the Sydney Cartmell
collection has been identified as Private
Frederick Cartmell, number 32890 of the King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment. He was employed at Rainhill Asylum and he enlisted into
the Royal Garrison Artillery as number 114704 and later transferred to
the 1st Battalion of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. He
was wounded early in 1917 and invalided home. It was during this
period of recovery this photograph was taken. Frederick returned
to the front in September 1917 and joined the 8th Battalion of the
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. He was killed in action on 26th
September 1917 and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne
Cot Memorial in Belgium.
Accession Number: KO1417/10
Army Form E 511 Discharge Certificate of a Soldier of the Territorial
Force. For Lance Corporal Sidney Cartmell, number 2094/240500 of the 5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Who enlisted on 4 Sep
1914 and discharged 17 May 1917.
Accession Number: KO1417/11
Army Form W3555 Out Patient Treatment Card
To Lance corporal Sidney Cartmell, number 240500, 5th King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment. Home address 80 Dorrington Road, Lancaster. Hospital
from which discharged, Military Hospital, Colchester. On 17 May 1917.
Accession Number: KO1417/12
Certificate of Issue for the Silver War Badge to Lance Corporal Sydney
Cartmell, number 240500, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment. Issued from the Territorial Force Record Office, Preston, 16
May 1917.
Accession Number: KO1417/13
Ministry of Pensions Form, 3 Jun1926 regarding the award of a pension
for war service to Mr. Sidney Cartmell late King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1417/14
Army Form B2067 Character Certificate to Lance corporal Sidney Cartmell,
number 2094/240500 of the 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment.
Enlisted 4 Sep 1914 Discharged 17 May 1917
Home: 4 Sep 1914 to 13 Feb 1915
France: 14 Feb 1915 to 26 Apr 1915
Home: 27 Apr 1915 to 18 Aug 1916
France 18 Aug 1916 to 2 Nov 1916
Home 3 Nov 1916 to 17 May 1917
Accession Number: KO1417/15
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