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Lance corporal Albert Bamber

Lance corporal Albert Bamber, number 242417, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  Originally enlistment on 27th January 1911 and discharged on the 26th January 1916. He re-enlisted on the 25th July 1916 into the 5th Territorial Force Reserve Battalion, King’s Own.

1st/5th Battalion King’s Own group photograph taken in France or Belgium, possibly 1916, but more likely to have been earlier. Including Omar Steel, MM, extreme right of the second row.
Accession Number: KO1463/01

Details of soldiers in the photograph from rear of KO0784/099

Band of the 5th Battalion King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1914-1918
Accession Number: KO1463/02

5th Battalion King's Own Group, no further details, may be the 2/5th Battalion? Shoulder titles are clearly those of a Territorial Force battalion.
Accession Number: KO1463/03

Band of 1st Volunteer Battalion, King's Own Lancaster Regiment, 1918
Accession Number: KO1463/04

Recruiting Poster/leaflet (about A5 size) 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1915
Accession Number: KO1463/05

Infantry Training 1902
Accession Number: KO1463/06

Standing Orders 5th Battalion King's Own Royal Regiment
Accession Number: KO1463/07

Section or Platoon Roll Book
Accession Number: KO1463/08

Rifle Bayonet
Accession Number: KO1463/09

Territorial Force Embodiment Notice, 1914
Accession Number: KO1463/10

Note about soldiers on leave in London.
“All Warrant Officers, NCOs and Men on leave who stay in London over six hours must report to No. 3 Southampton Street, Strand, WC2, or at No. 46 Grovesnor Gardens, Victoria, SW1, where their passes will be stamped. Any soldier found in London after six hours whose pass has not been stamped will be immediately returned to his unit.
Accession Number: KO1463/11

Army Form Z 53 Cover for Certificates and other Documents of a Soldier on Demobilization, Transfer to the Reserve or Discharge.
Accession Number: KO1463/12

Army Form E 511 Discharge Certificate of a Soldier of the Territorial Force. Private Albert Bamber, number 1191, dated 26 Jan 1916. With over-writing, re-enlisted 25 Jul 1916.
Accession Number: KO1463/13

Army Form B2067/1 Character Certificate of Private Albert Bamber, number 1191, 2nd/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1916
Showing original enlistment on 27 Jan 1911, and discharged 26 Jan 1916. Re-enlisted 25 Jul 1916 into the 5th Territorial Force Reserve Battalion, King’s Own.
Accession Number: KO1463/14

Army Form Z 21 Certificate of Transfer to Reserve on Demobilization for Lance corporal Albert Bamber, number 651778, Labour Corps.
Accession Number: KO1463/15

Army Form W 3184 Territorial Force card notifying person that they are noted as the next of kin. With reference to Private A Bamber, number 5316, 5th Territorial Force Reserve Battalion, The King’s Own Regiment. Addressed to Mrs A E B Bamber, 23 Bath Street, Lancaster, and postmarked 10 Aug 1916.
Accession Number: KO1463/16

Letter from Territorial Force, West Lancashire Association, to Mrs A Bamber, Lancaster, dated 1 Dec 1916, concerning receipt for Certificate of Birth.
Accession Number: KO1463/17

Letter from West Lancashire Territorial Force Association, concerning arrears of Separation Allowance, dated 1 Dec 1916, to Mrs A E Bamber, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO1463/18

Letter from Gunner William Davidson, number 77450, dated 15 Oct 1917, to his ‘brother’, assume Lance corporal Albert Bamber. Page one of two
Gunner (Private) William Dixon Davidson, number 2870 of the 8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, and later number 77450 of ‘A’ Battalion, Tank Corps, was killed in action on 20 Nov 1917. Son of Mr N F and Mrs K Davidson of 23 Bath Street, Lancaster. Commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial. A member of the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon (PSA) Brotherhood, the 21st to die.
Accession Number: KO1463/19a

Letter from Gunner William Davidson, number 77450, dated 15 Oct 1917, to his ‘brother’, assume Lance corporal Albert Bamber. Page two of two
Accession Number: KO1463/19b

Unit Register Card, 129 Labour Company, Labour Corps. For Lance corporal A Bamber, number 651778, 129 Labour Company.
Accession Number: KO1463/20

Advance of Pay to Private Albert Bamber, number 242417, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. (Service Battalion Form)
Accession Number: KO1463/21

Advance of Pay to Private Albert Bamber, number 242417, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. (Regular Battalion Form)
Accession Number: KO1463/22

Letter to Albert Bamber, from ‘Quarters’ 2nd/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment regarding a debt of £4 because Bamber’s allotment was not stopped when it should have been.
Accession Number: KO1463/23

Letter from KORL Branch, Service Battalions, (Hut 22) Regimental Paymasters, Preston, dated 25 Feb 1918 regarding money order paid to Private A Bamber, number 242417, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1463/24

Letter to Lance corporal Albert Bamber, number 242417, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. From Territorial Force Depot, 4th, 5th and 12th Battalions, of the King’s Own, at the Drill Hall, Lancaster, stating that Lance Corporal Bamber should report to the Officer Commanding, Depot, Bowerham Barracks, on expiration of hospital furlough, pending admission to Command Depot, Heaton Park, Mancheser, which is at present full. Dated 4 Mar 1918.
Accession Number: KO1463/25

Separation Allowance and Allotment of Pay (Territorial Force) Certificate of Identity for wife or child or other relative of a soldier. For wife of Private A Bamber, number 242417, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Dated 5 Mar 1918.
Accession Number: KO1463/26

Ballot Paper Envelope, 1918 for the Parliamentary Election held after the war had ended.  This was send from Lancaster to Lance Corporal Albert Bamber, who had moved on the from the King's Own to the Labour Corps by this time.  All soldiers who were absent from their local areas were listed and ballot papers sent to them where they were serving.
Accession Number: KO1463/27

War Gratuity Claim for soldier or airman discharged from the Army or Air Force after the 4 Aug 1914 and before 9 Dec 1918
Accession Number: KO1463/28

Army Form W5112 Letter with British War Medal issued to Private A Bamber, number 1191, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1463/29

Army Form W5113 Letter with 1914/15 Star issued to Private A Bamber, number 1191, 5th Battalion King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, dated 10 Mar 1920.
Accession Number: KO1463/30

Army Form Z11 Protection Certificate and Certificate of Identity to Private Albert Bamber, number 651778, Labour Corps. Dated 31 Mar 1919.
Accession Number: KO1463/31

Army Form Z18 Certificate of Employment During the War for Lance corporal Albert Bamber, number 651779, of the 129 Labour Company, Labour Corps.
Accession Number: KO1463/32

National Health Insurance for Soldiers, 1918. Leaflet number 29a.
Accession Number: KO1463/33

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