Collections - Postcards
Sergeant John Miles Read, number 242320, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
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Sergeant Read of the 1st/5th Battalion of the King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment sent postcards home to his future wife, Edith
Martindale, of Graham Street, Penrith. Almost all the postcards
contain no message, just simply a name and address and often a field
post mark and censor's mark.
Edith Martindale, Feb 1897, to whom all the postcards sent by
Sergeant J M Read of 1/5 KORLR were sent - to her address at 135 Graham
Street, Penrith.
Accession Number: KO2428/001
Souvenir Card of the 1/5th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Named to Sergeant John Miles Read, number 242320, of the 1st/5th King’s
Own.
Accession Number: KO2428/002
Pre-war postcard postmarked 25 Nov 1905 Ashbourne
Accession Number: KO2428/003
Pre-war postcard postmarked 23 Nov 1905 Ashbourne
Accession Number: KO2428/004
Red Cross association Lowther Park, Staveley Section
Accession Number: KO2428/005
Sergeant J M Read 5 KORLR photo taken when a Corporal - photographic
Studio in Carlisle.
Accession Number: KO2428/006
Group of five KO soldiers, rear marked ‘Guard Room’ West 2
Accession Number: KO2428/007
Civilian group - ‘and with best wishes to all concerned....for ‘many
happy returns of the day’
Accession Number: KO2428/008
Civilian group - ‘In memory of a pleasant excursion, Whit Monday 1905’
Accession Number: KO2428/009
Two ladies - postmarked 23 Jan 1905
Accession Number: KO2428/010
Three ladies ‘Portraits of Celebrities’ ‘the Three Graces!’
Accession Number: KO2428/011
‘Grave’ for the 2/1st Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry. Formed in
1914, by about Jul 1915 in newly formed Western Mounted Brigade. by Apr
1916 in area of Cupar Fife, Brigade became the 21st Mounted Brigade. Jul
1916 became Cyclist Unit in 14th Cyclist Bde, still at Cupar, and there
until the end of 1917. The mock up of a tomb-stone states ‘to take our
horses and give us bicycles.’
Accession Number: KO2428/012
‘A Gallant Regiment - A short Story of the King’s Own’ Reprinted from
the Lancaster Observer 14 Aug 1914.
Accession Number: KO2428/013
Ypres Place Vandenpeerboom - dated 23 May 1917 from ‘Donald’ of 1/5th
South Lancashire Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2428/014
Setques - dated 9 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/015
St Omer - Church - dated 15 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/016
Lumbres - Vue Panoramique
Accession Number: KO2428/017
St Omer - Un coin de la Grande Place - 18 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/018
St Omer - L’Hotel de Ville - 19 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/019
St Omer - Jardin Public - 20 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/020
Calais - Rue Royale - 13 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/021
Calais - Le Theatre - 14 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/022
Tournehem - Le Vielle Porte - 11 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/023
Calais - Panorama vers Notre-Dame - 14 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/024
Calais - Le Musee et la rue Royals - 16 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/025
Calais - Vers les Jetees - 19 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/026
Tournehem - Le Moulin - 22 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/027
Calais - Le Theatre - 23 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/028
Calais - Pont Richelieu - 24 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/029
Calais - Le Rue de la Citadelle - 26 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/030
Calais - Place du Theatre - 28 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/031
Calais - Monument eleve a la Memoire du Sumbersible Pluviose 1 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/032
Calais - La Gare Maritime - 3 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/033
Calais - Le Steamer ‘Le Nord’ 4 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/034
Calais - Le Musee et la Rue Royle - 4 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/035
Calais - Le Musee et la Rue Royle - 4 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/036
Calais - La Poste - 5 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/037
Calais - La Gare -7 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/038
Calais - Le Marche - 9 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/039
Calais - Le Jardin Richelieu - 10 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/040
Calais - La Rue Royale - 11 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/041
Calais - Le Boulevard Jacquard - 12 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/042
Tournehem - Vue Panoramique - 12 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/043
Calais - Les Ecluses - 15 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/044
Calais - Le Boulevard Jacquard - 17 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/045
Calais - Le Pont Richelieu - 19 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/046
Calais - Le Boulevard Maritime -20 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/047
Calais - Le Tramway electrique - 24 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/048
Calais - Le Pont Richelieu - 27 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/049
Calais - La Place d’Armes - 27 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/050
Calais - La Gare Maritime - 27 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/051
Cathedrale d’Amiens - 1 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/052
Amiens - Place Rene Goblet - 1 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/053
Amiens - Catnedrale - 2 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/054
Amiens - Cathedrale - 3 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/055
Amiens - La Prefecture - 4 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/056
Amiens - L’Hotel des Postes - 5 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/057
Amiens - L’Hotel de Ville - 5 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/058
Amiens - Le Palais de Justice - 7 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/059
Amiens - Place et Jardin St Denis - 8 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/060
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