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Soldiers of the RegimentLieutenant
Colonel Edward Cadman Cadman
Lieutenant Colonel Edward Cadman Cadman, 5th Battalion, King's Own,
1914.
Accession Number: KO0104/53 and KO0439/14
Collection - Album
Album of photographs and documents relating to the
service of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Cadman Cadman, 5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and other units. First World War.
| Photo: Family photograph
Accession Number: KO2160/37-001 |
| Photo: Family photograph
Accession Number: KO2160/37-002 |
| Photo: Family photograph
Accession Number: KO2160/37-003 |
| Photo: Family photograph
Accession Number: KO2160/37-004 |
| Photo: Family photograph
Accession Number: KO2160/37-005 |
| Photo: Family photograph
Accession Number: KO2160/37-006 |
| Photo: Family photograph
Accession Number: KO2160/37-007 |
| Photo: Family photograph
Accession Number: KO2160/37-008 |
Major General Hibbert, circa 1914, possibly at Sevenoaks Accession Number: KO2160/37-009
Captain Young, circa 19114, possibly at Sevenoaks Accession Number: KO2160/37-010
Major Cadman, M Evans and W Sharpe, circa 1914, possibly
at Sevenoaks Accession Number: KO2160/37-011
Major Cadman, circa 1914, possibly at Sevenoaks. Accession Number: KO2160/37-012
Captain G W Sharpe, circa 1914, possibly at Sevenoaks Accession Number: KO2160/37-013
Captain Parsons, circa 1914, possibly at Sevenoaks Accession Number: KO2160/37-014
Lieutenant M Evans, circa 1914, possibly at Sevenoaks Accession Number: KO2160/37-015
Photo: Group of officers, Sevenoaks, 1914. Accession Number: KO2160/37-016
Lieutenant Albert Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, at
Sevenoaks, 1914. Accession Number: KO2160/37-017
Captain G W Sharpe and Captain J M Young (adjutant)
discussing the Mobilisation Orders of the Battalion. Possibly at
Sevenoaks, 1914. Accession Number: KO2160/37-018
Lieutenant J Preston, Sevenoaks, 1914. Accession Number: KO2160/37-019
Alec Cadman (child) with Major Cadman, Sevenoaks, 1914 or
1915 Accession Number: KO2160/37-020
Officers of the 5th Battalion, Sevenoaks, 1914 Accession Number: KO2160/37-021
Officers of the 5th Battalion, Sevenoaks, 1914 Accession Number: KO2160/37-022
Captains of the 5th Battalion, King’s Own, Sevenoaks,
1914 Accession Number: KO2160/37-023
Group of officers of the 5th Battalion, Sevenoaks, 1914 Accession Number: KO2160/37-024
Lieutenant W Sharpe, 5th Battalion, Sevenoaks, 1914. Accession Number: KO2160/37-025
| Printed notice: Police Warning, extract from Orders by Colonel G
L Hibbert DSO, Commanding North Lancashire Infantry Brigade.
Sentries on Bridge Guards are given orders that any person seen
loitering in the neighbourhood of the Railway or acting in a
suspicious manner is to be challenged and arrested. If the person
fails to obey at once he is to be fired on.
Signed ( E C Cadman, Major, Acting Brigade Major, North Lancashire
Infantry Brigade) 15 Aug 1914
Persons are Warned:
To obey all challenges by sentries,
To Hal and shout ‘Friend’ and
Not to Advance till allowed.
From dusk till dawn all persons should NOT use the Bridges unless
there is some necessity to do so.
To loiter on or near a Railway or Bridge is an offence, and persons
doing so without reasonable cause do so at their own peril, and are
further liable to be arrested and tried by Military Court Martial.
I would strongly advise all persons not to use the bridges between
dusk and daylight.
Major A F Poulton, Chief Constable of Berkshire. County Police
Station Reading. 20 Aug 1914
Notice printed by Knill & Sons, Duke Street and Minster Street,
Reading.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-026 |
| Photo: Soldiers of the 5th Battalion marching down Caton Road,
Lancaster, as they leave the wagon works where they were billeted.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-027 |
| Photo: Group of officers sat on deck chairs in garden.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-028 |
| Photo: Two officers in garden.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-029 |
| Photo: Interior view of 5th Battalion soldiers billeted at the
former Wagon Works, Caton Road, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-030
Photo: Soldiers training at Didcot, Sep 1914.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-031 |
| Photo: View of chairs in Garden.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-032 |
| Photo: Lady in Garden.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-033 |
| Photo: Potato peeling (‘spud bashing’) in the open air, 5th
King’s Own at Didcot, Sep 1914.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-034 |
| Photo: ‘A’ Company on parade at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-035 |
| Photo: Soldiers on Parade at Sevenoaks, 1914
Accession Number: KO2160/37-036 |
| Photo: Machine gunners at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-037 |
|
Photo: Major Bates and Major Cadman on horseback, Didcot, Sep
1914.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-038 |
| Photo: Major Cadman on horseback, Didcot, Sep 1914
Accession Number: KO2160/37-039 |
| Photo: Soldiers of the 5th Battalion on parade at Sevenoaks,
1914/15.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-040 |
|
Photo: Nurse L A Sharpe
Accession Number: KO2160/37-041 |
| Photo: Nurses L A Sharpe and E Mackenzie
Accession Number: KO2160/37-042 |
| Photo: Soldiers of the 5th Battalion with a mounted officer,
Sevenoaks, 1914/15
Accession Number: KO2160/37-043 |
| Photo: Major Cadman on horseback
Accession Number: KO2160/37-044 |
| Photo: Soldier (Turner) with horse.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-045 |
| Photo: E W S, E M Evans, E C Cadman and Alec Cadman
Accession Number: KO2160/37-046 |
| Photo: E C Cadman and Alec Cadman (child)
Accession Number: KO2160/37-047
Photo: Nurse and another lady
Accession Number: KO2160/37-048 |
| Photo: Two officers and lady outside building/monument
Accession Number: KO2160/37-049 |
| Photo: Group of officers and nurse, one officer appears to have
a bandage on his head.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-050 |
| Photo: Major Cadman in France or Belgium
Accession Number: KO2160/37-051 |
| Photo: Two officers who appear to be stood in a bomb crater in
France or Belgium
Accession Number: KO2160/37-052 |
| Photo: Group of officers on steps of a building.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-053 |
| Photo: Officers of the 1st/5th Battalion in France or Belgium,
including Lieutenant Albert Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, and a Belgian
officer.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-054 |
| Photo: Officers of the 1st/5th Battalion in France or Belgium,
including Lieutenant Albert Hodkinson, Quartermaster and a Belgian
officer.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-055 |
| Photo: Officer and horse, probably in Belgium or France, 1915.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-056 |
| Photo: Officers of the 1st/5th Battalion in France or Belgium,
including Lieutenant Albert Hodgkinson, Quartermaster
Accession Number: KO2160/37-057 |
| Photo: Officers of the 1st/5th Battalion in France or Belgium,
including Lieutenant Albert Hodgkinson, Quartermaster
Accession Number: KO2160/37-058 |
| Photo: Copy of a piece of correspondence found on a German
soldier’s body.
“Application for a furlough for a German soldier made by his wife
Sir, I have the honour to request that a suitable period of furlough
be granted to my husband, ---- -----, so far as the exigencies of
the Service will permit, in order that he may see his son, born 1st
January, and also that he may contribute further to the fruitfulness
of the nation at this time when so many men’s lives have been
lost…..”
Accession Number: KO2160/37-059 |
| Envelope addressed to Major E C Cadman, postmarked Lancaster 11
Apr 1915 and Field Post Office 18 Apr 1915, with re-directions.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-060 |
| Photo: Three officers of the 1st/5th Battalion outside hut,
France or Belgium, 1915.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-061 |
| Photo: Two officers of the 1st/5th Battalion outside hut, France
or Belgium, 1915.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-062 |
| Currency: Ville de Mailleul, 50
Centimes note
Accession Number: KO2160/37-063 |
| Currency: Ville de Bailleul, 1
Franc note
Accession Number: KO2160/37-064 |
| Envelope addressed to Major E C Cadman, 5th King’s Own,
postmarked Lancaster 11 April 1915 and re-directed.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-065 |
Three officers of the 1st/5th Battalion, including
Captain G W Sharpe Accession Number: KO2160/37-066
| Photo: W Cadman in uniform
Accession Number: KO2160/37-067 |
| Photo: Three officers of the 1st/5th Battalion outside hut,
Belgium or France, 1915.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-068 |
| Photo: Three officers of the 1st/5th Battalion outside hut,
Belgium or France,1915.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-069 |
| Photo: Two officers of the 1st/5th Battalion outside hut,
Belgium or France, 1915.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-070 |
| Photo: Two officers, one named as Chris Cadman.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-071 |
| Photo: House ‘The Downs, Findon’
Accession Number: KO2160/37-072 |
| Photo: ‘Jerry M’ Winner Grand National Apr 1912. The Downs,
Findon. Spectators watch a horse and rider along a path.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-073 |
| Photo: ‘Jerry M’ Winner du Grand Prix 19 Jul 1910 and of Grand
National 29 Mar 1912.
Accession Number: KO2160/37074- |
| Photo: Jerry M and his training. Grand National 1912.
Photo: Mark Cook, City Walls, Chester. No. 10.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-075 |
| Photo: Horse, ‘Covercoat’ with groom in yard.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-076 |
| Photo: Horse and cart and two people
Accession Number: KO2160/37-077 |
| Photo: Five people in rowing boat.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-078 |
| Photo: ‘Covercoat’ winner Grand National Apr 1913, The Downs,
Findon.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-079 |
| Photo: Five children.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-080 |
| Photo: View of stables, likely to be Remount Depot at Marlow,
based upon other photographs.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-081 |
| Photo: Lady and horse, Remount depot, Marlow.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-082 |
|
Photo: Three ladies and three horses, likely to be Remount Depot
at Marlow, based upon other photographs.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-083 |
| Christmas Card, 2nd/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, Christmas 1915
Accession Number: KO2160/37-084 |
| Spoof pencil written Notice signed Kitchener of Khartoum, 20 Aug
1915:
- Notice -
1. The telephones in this office are not for the use of the
Battalion but as a convenience for men who wish to speak to their
Friends in the trenches.
2. Do not knock on the door. Walk right inside and leave the door
open we are used to the fresh air and will not mind the draught.
3. When the operator is taking a message, stamp and whistle. It will
hep to liven things up a bit.
4. Don’t trouble to wipe your feet. Come in with the mud on your
boots. We admire the effect on the floor.
5. If at any time we are engaged do not hesitate to interrupt us. No
business can possibly be of greater importance than yours.
6. If you have any grievances, come and settle them in here. The
dressing station is conveniently handy and there is an efficient and
willing medical staff.
By Order of
Kitchener of Khartoum
20 Aug 1915
Accession Number: KO2160/37-085 |
| Autographed Menu for 30 Apr 1916, Hotel de Ville de Merville.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-086 |
| ‘Ten Standing Orders’ copied from the Bystander, Apr1916
“Ten Standing Orders for British Infantry in France”
Accession Number: KO2160/37-087 |
| Typed copy of telegram from Brigade Major, 182nd Infantry
Brigade to Officer Commanding 2nd/8th Warwick, 29 Jun 1916
The following wire from 61st Division begins:
“Your report on Raid carried out by 2/8th Warwicks received. The GOC
congratulates Lieutenant Colonel Cadman and 2/8th Warwicks on their
gallant efforts which deserved more success.
The GOC deeply regrets the loss of officers and men incurred but
knows that the regiment will be proud to have taken a share in the
great battle now in progress elsewhere.”
Accession Number: KO2160/37-088 |
| Photo: Men of the 2/8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment on board
ship, possibly in transit from England to France.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-089 |
| Photo: Men of the 2/8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment on board
ship, possibly in transit from England to France.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-090 |
| Photo: Men of the 2/8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment on board
ship, possibly in transit from England to France.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-091 |
| Photo: Men of the 2/8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment on board
ship, possibly in transit from England to France.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-092 |
| Photo: Men of the 2/8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment on board
ship, possibly in transit from England to France.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-093 |
| Photo: Men of the 2/8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment on board
ship, possibly in transit from England to France.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-094 |
| Photo: Officer and horse, probably of the 2/8th Royal
Warwickshire Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-095 |
| Photo: Officer and horse, probably of the 2/8th Royal
Warwickshire Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-096 |
| Currency: Chambre de Commerce
Bethuen, 50 Centimes note.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-097 |
| Currency: Ville d’Abbeville, et
Chambre de Commerce, 50 Centimes note.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-098 |
| New Year Card, January 1917 with coloured illustration of a red fox (the
badge of the Fifth Army) bighting a German soldier “Gott Strafe Den Roten
Fuchs!”
Accession Number: KO2160/37-099 |
| Photo: Soldiers of the 2nd/8th Warwickshire Regiment
Accession Number: KO2160/37-100 |
| Photo: Soldiers of the 2nd/8th Warwickshire Regiment ‘B’ Company
Accession Number: KO2160/37-101 |
| Photo: Soldiers of the 2nd/8th Warwickshire Regiment ‘A’ Company
Accession Number: KO2160/37-102 |
| Photo: Soldiers of the 2nd/8th Warwickshire Regiment ‘D’ Company
Accession Number: KO2160/37-103 |
| Photo: Soldiers of the 2nd/8th Warwickshire Regiment ‘C’ Company
Accession Number: KO2160/37-104 |
| Photo: Officers of the 2nd/8th Warwickshire Regiment in France
or Flanders wearing tin helmets with cap badges clearly attached.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-105 |
| Photo: Officers of the 2nd/8th Battalion Warwickshire Regiment
who cam out with the battalion May 1916, photographed in Jun 1917
Accession Number: KO2160/37-106 |
| Photo: Chateau La Fontaine
Accession Number: KO2160/37-107 |
| Photo: Headquarters Signallers, 2nd/8th Battalion, Warwickshire
Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-108 |
|
Photo: ‘Miss Jones’ (horse) and Lieutenant Colonel Cadman
Accession Number: KO2160/37-109 |
| Photo: ‘Betty’ (horse) and Captain, 2nd/8th Battalion,
Warwickshire Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-110 |
| Photo: ‘John Willie’ (horse)
Accession Number: KO2160/37-111 |
| Photo: ‘Betty’ (horse)
Accession Number: KO2160/37-112 |
|
Photo: Four horses and four soldiers, left to right: ‘Susan’,
‘Betty’, ‘Miss Jones’ and ‘John Willie’.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-113 |
| Message to Lieutenant Colonel E C Cadman, DSO, 2/8th Battalion
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment (TF).
“With the congratulations of Major General Colin Mackenzie CB, and
officers of the Headquarters Staff, 61st Division.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-114 |
| Army Form C 2123 ‘C’ Form Messages and Signals
5 Jun1917. To Colonel Cadman. Hearty Congratulations on well
deserved honour for you and battalion.
From Brigadier. 182 Brigade.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-115 |
| Award of Distinguished Service Order to Major (Temporary
Lieutenant Colonel) E C Cadman, 5th Battalion, Royal Lancaster
Regiment, attached to 2/8th Royal Warwickshire Regiment.) 4 Jun
1917.
With ‘The Statutes of the Distinguished Service Order” and telegram,
dated 17 Nov 1917.
From Buckingham Palace – to Lieutenant Colonel Edward Cadman at
Piccadilly Hotel, London. “Your attendance is required at Buckingham
Palace on Wednesday next the twenty first instant at ten o’clock am
Service Dress Please Telegraph Acknowledge Lord Chamberlain, London.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-116 |
| Special Order of the Day, From Major General Mackenzie,
Commanding 61st Division dated 31 Mar 1917 and in pencil 1 Apr 1917,
also signed by Lieutenant and Adjutant, 2/8th Warwicks.
Success in recent operations.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-117 |
| Memo to Officer Commanding 2/8th Battalion, Warwicks, from
Brigadier General Blacklock, Commanding 182nd Infantry Brigade. 14
Feb 1917.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-118 |
| Memo from 61st Division to 182 Infantry Brigade on the actions
of 2/8th Warwicks on the night of 3/4 Oct 1916.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-119 |
| Photo: Special Order of the Day by Major General Colin
Mackenzie, Commanding 61st Division. Headquarters, 19 Sep1917.
Message from GOC Fifth Army, of which the 61st Division had been
part.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-120 |
| Message concerning ‘enterprise’ carried out by a party of 2/8th
Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 18/19 Aug 1916 from 61st Division.
‘Duckbill Raid’
Accession Number: KO2160/37-121 |
| Letter from Major General Colin Mackenzie, commanding 61st
Division, 26 Jan 1918 to Colonel Cadman, concerning the sad news
that six battalions of the 61st Division are to be disbanded.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-122 |
| Letter dated 25 Jan 1918 from General Sir H de la P Gough, KCB,
KCVO, Commanding Fifth Army, on the disbanding of the 2nd/8th
Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-123 |
| Letter dated 20 Jan 1918 from Field Marshal Haig to General Sir
H de la P Gough, Commanding Fifth Army on the reduction of the size
of the force and disbandment of battalions.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-124 |
| Farewell Order of the 2nd/8th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire
Regiment. Signed by Lieutenant Colonel E C Cadman.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-125 |
| Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Cadman from Charles Sackville-West,
dated 2 Sep1917, concerning the 2nd/8th Battalion Warwickshire
Regiment and the 182nd Infantry Brigade.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-126 |
| Photo: The Whippet Tank
Accession Number: KO2160/37-127 |
| Photo: The Whippet Tank
Accession Number: KO2160/37-128 |
| Headquarters Sports, Programme, 10 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2160/37-129 |
| Christmas Card from Captain Simpson, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s
Own.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-130 |
| Christmas Card, 61st Division, 1917.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-131 |
| Programme for Divisional Race meeting, 18 Jul 1917.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-132 |
| Greetings/Menu Card No 2 Hospital Christmas 1917
Accession Number: KO2160/37-133 |
| Christmas Card, 1917, from the British Red Cross Society and
Order of St. John.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-134 |
| Programme, Black Square Concert Party, 21 Sep 1917. President
Lieutenant Colonel E C Cadman, DSO.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-135 |
| Item loosely inserted in Album: “Gift Parcel of Cadbury’s
Chocolates”
“This Parcel contains a selection of chocolates at present being
manufactured by Cadbury Brothers Ltd, Bournville, England for the
Home and Export Markets.
Owing to restricted supplies it may not be possible to obtain all
these products at one time from your confectioner, or grocer, but
the limited supplies available on the Home market are being
distributed fairly, and it is worth while waiting for your favourite
kinds.”
Accession Number: KO2160/37-136 |
| Photograph of Colonel E C Cadman of the 2nd/8th Warwick on board
ship as the battalion sailed from England to France. Message on rear
addressed to Colonel Cadman, from ‘Morris’ who is on the mend and
expecting to be back in three to four weeks.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-137 |
| Photo: Three officers of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Accession Number: KO2160/37-138 |
Four officers of the 5th Battalion, at annual camp, 1912.
Postcard postmarked 12 Aug 1912. Left to right: Lieutenant Colonel
Lord Richard Cavendish, G W Sharpe, Lieutenant and Quarter Master Hodgkinson and
Major Bates Accession Number: KO2160/37-139
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