KO1853/296 to KO1853/358
Lieutenant Tom Harley and Lieutenant Stapleton, “Yours truly with
Lieutenant Stapleton, 9th East Lancashire Regiment, Machine Gun Officer”
at Aldershot, August 1915
Accession Number: KO1853/296
Salonika, November 1915, "as I saw it on my first landing" - Tom Harley.
Accession Number: KO1853/297
Salonika Street Scene, Alexander Arch.
Accession Number: KO1853/298
Postcard: Salonika, landing place, as it looked in 1915
Accession Number: KO1853/299
Salonika showing trams, 1915
Accession Number: KO1853/300
Postcard: Salonika, Place Venizellos, 1915
Accession Number: KO1853/301
View of Salonika, 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/302
Local in national dress, Salonika, 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/303
Local in national dress, Salonika, 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/304
Three officers in Salonika, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, sat outside bar: Tom Harley, Bob Bethune and Quinton Bone.
1916
Accession Number: KO1853/305
View of Salonika from the White Tower, 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/306
View of Salonika from the White Tower, 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/307
Postcard: Salonika 1916, view of the White Tower.
Accession Number: KO1853/308
Postcard: Salonika, 1916, French advanced post and British convoy.
“The trees in this picture grew on the banks of the Galiko River and the
ground above is where we spent our first night, lying in the open along
Monastir Road. I remember the French guard fort here.”
Accession Number: KO1853/309
Lake Doiran from Hill 227, Colonial Hill, Summer 1917
Accession Number: KO1853/310
Postcard: British Soldiers carrying the wounded.
Accession Number: KO1853/311
View of tents and stone built buildings. “Here we remained for five days
when relieved by a company of the 6th Royal Irish Rifles at Dedeli.
Accession Number: KO1853/312
Tented Accommodation.
Accession Number: KO1853/313
“In Jan 1916 I was granted special compassionate leave to England to see
my dying father and I returned via Egypt, (Bidi Bishr Camp)”
Trees assumed to be Egypt.
Accession Number: KO1853/314
“In Jan 1916 I was granted special compassionate leave to England to see
my dying father and I returned via Egypt, (Bidi Bishr Camp)”
Park Gardens, assumed to be Egypt.
Accession Number: KO1853/315
Captain Tom Harley outside tent.
Accession Number: KO1853/316
Soldier with Lembert, the dog and his kennel.
Accession Number: KO1853/317
9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Headquarters, March
1916. In the Birdcage Line. Dug into the hillside. Looking north into
the Galiko River.
Accession Number: KO1853/318
March 1916, the supply train arrives at Sarigol.
Accession Number: KO1853/319
Three officers on board ship, April 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/320
Myself (Tom Harley), Fleming and Fred Hall at Sarigol, 1916.
Accession Number: KO1853/321
Officer at front line camp.
Accession Number: KO1853/322
Two Officers at the ‘Bind Capa’ Line, March 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/323
Private Cook, Blythe, Coole
and Dickman, “returning from clothes washing” 1916 9th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1853/324
Building a building out of stone. 1916.
Accession Number: KO1853/325
Bivouac camp, 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/326
Soldiers bathing in river
Accession Number: KO1853/327
British and French soldiers at site of ruined buildings, 1916.
Accession Number: KO1853/328
Lieutenant Thomas Harley with Major Charles and Colonel Clermont Tonnere
of the French, 17th Colonial Division. Popovo, May 1916.
Accession Number: KO1853/329
Bivouac camp on Gola Ridge, March 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/330
Bivouac camp on Gola Ridge, March 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/331
Captain Douglas Stileman, of ‘C’ Company 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, March 1916, Outside Tent. Captain Stileman was later
badly wounded. Photo taken by Tom Harley, also of C Company near to
Scipol. Note our ‘comfortable’ residence!
Accession Number: KO1853/332
French and King’s Own officers.
Accession Number: KO1853/333
View taken in May 1916 from Vladaja showing shells bursting in the
vicinity of Doiran lake in an advance on the Bulgar outpost lines near
Hill 227
Accession Number: KO1853/334
View near Lake Doiran of Petit Couronne, the enemy front line trenches
at La Tortue, June 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/335
View near Lake Doiran of Petit Couronne, the enemy front line trenches
at La Tortue, June 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/336
French wounded coming in during the attack and taking of La Tortue –
Tortoise Hill.
Accession Number: KO1853/337
Captain Durst 9th King’s Own, Jackson’s Ravine, June 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/338
Jackson’s Ravine
Accession Number: KO1853/339
Grand Couronne from our forward line on Mamelon, June 1916.
Accession Number: KO1853/340
Sugar Loaf, (Bulgarian Out post), March 1917, taken at close quarters
from outlying British position on Mamelon (about 50 m distance between
the two). With Grand Couronne dominating the background (535 m). Photo
taken by Captain Thomas Harley, from Hill 380
Accession Number: KO1853/341
C Company, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, In the
Line, Mamelon Trench, Doiran Front May 1917. Men had to rest and sleep
on elevated boards because of the lack of space and absence of dugouts.
Front line trench, Mamelon, 300 yards from the Bulgar line, June 1917, C
Company, 9th Battalion, King’s Own. “Resting by day, busy at night”
Accession Number: KO1853/342
C Company, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, In the
Line, Mamelon Trench, Doiran Front May 1917. Men had to rest and sleep
on elevated boards because of the lack of space and absence of dugouts.
Front line trench, Mamelon, 300 yards from the Bulgar line, June 1917, C
Company, 9th Battalion, King’s Own. “dinner is up”
Accession Number: KO1853/343
French troops bridging the River Varda, September 1917
Accession Number: KO1853/344
French troops bridging the River Varda, September 1917
Accession Number: KO1853/345
1918, 'Christmas Ravine', Doiran Front, Macedonia. This camp constituted
Battalion HQs and a company in reserve whilst in the line.
The photograph shows the Medical Officer’s Dressing Station in
background, dug into hillside.
Accession Number: KO1853/346
View of the River Varda.
Accession Number: KO1853/347
River Varda, September 1917
Accession Number: KO1853/348
September 1916 Photo taken by me from a position held in the left bank
of the River Varda.
Accession Number: KO1853/349
1917 Peton Rocheux, Doiran Front, Macedonia, shows Temporary Sergeant
Coleman in charge of watering mules. One man takes four or more mules
from the lines to the watering place, a series of tin troughs with a
water pipe at the top end provides the necessary equipment.
Accession Number: KO1853/350
Horse lines of the 9th King’s Own, transport, out of the enemy view on
Doiran Front, Macedonia.
Accession Number: KO1853/351
9th King’s Own officers on Christmas Day 1917 watching a football match
at Saida Camp (in reserve)
Captain F Hall, Captain T W Harley, Captain Rickwood, Lieutenant
Downing, Lieutenant G Smallie, Lieutenant T Parker, Lieutenant Gilbert,
Major Moloney, Captain Dormer, RAMC, Lieutenant Gleave
Accession Number: KO1853/352
2nd Lieutenant R T (Bob) Bethune, at Seaford, Sussex, 1914. Newly
commissioned into the 9th Battalion of the King’s Own after serving in
the Canadian Cavalry.
Accession Number: KO1853/353
Captain Tom W Harley, Officer Commanding 'C' Company, 9th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, with Company Sergeant Major Potter
and Company Quartermaster Sergeant Hack (later Meritorious Service
Medal)
Accession Number: KO1853/354
Captain Tom W Harley outside ‘C’ Company Headquarters in Saida Camp,
Macedonia, 1917
Accession Number: KO1853/355
Raiding party and officers in support of 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment at Popovo, Christmas 1916. Raiding party on Brest.
Left to right: Captain Whitehead; Medical Officer Doiran; Captain T H
Stileman; Lieutenant Whittall; Lieutenant R Bethune; Colonel W B Maloney
(barely visible); Lieutenant Honey; Lieutenant Downing, Lieutenant W H
Smellie; Captain T W Harley Officer Commanding Raid, at Popovo Church,
26th December, 1916.
Accession Number: KO1853/356
9th King’s Own, 1916, Company Headquarters, at Popovo, 27th December
1916. Some of the officers in the group are Major Maloney, Captain
Whitehead, Captain Harley, Lieutenant Bethune.
Accession Number: KO1853/357
Bulgar Prisoners, shortly after capture in a raid on Brest, December
1916. All smoking – a novelty afforded to them by Captain Thomas Harley,
9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1853/358
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