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Private Thomas Whalley

Collection of photographs and items relating to Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment.

Three soldiers of the 1st Battalion King’s Own Royal Regiment in Italy in 1944 or 1945 with two German soldiers as prisoner. Probably summer 1944 by the dress of the soldiers, one is in shorts, the other has a hand grenade clipped to the rear of his belt. One German has his hands held high.
Accession Number: KO2810/01

Field Service by Padre of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment in Italy in 1944. The padre is next to a table covered with union flag, the officers are lined up in the centre surround by the other ranks formed up in a square. The image is marked ‘Italy 1944’.
From the collection of Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2810/02

King’s Own playing an Italian football team, marked as at Citta de Castella. Photograph is dark and dress of the spectators indicates that it must be winter, 1944 or 1945.
Accession Number: KO2810/03

Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Photographed smoking a pipe, and photographed in Rome, Nov 1944.
Accession Number: KO2810/04

Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Coloured photograph taken in Malta on 19th July 1942.
Accession Number: KO2810/05

Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, with two other soldiers, probably Malta, 1942/43.
Accession Number: KO2810/06

Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment and his wife, circa 1940.
Accession Number: KO2810/07

Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Card dated 28th June 1942.
Accession Number: KO2810/08

Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment in Palestine, Christmas 1943, photographed holding oranges, the rear of the photograph is marked ‘real Jaffas’
Accession Number: KO2810/09

Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, 1943 at Haifa, Palestine.
Accession Number: KO2810/10

Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment sat on wall with another soldier in Malta, March 1943.
Accession Number: KO2810/11

Group including Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment at airfield in Malta, with carrier in the rear and aircraft bomb in foreground.
Similar image in Ted Rathbone collection.
Accession Number: KO2810/12

Airgraph, sent from Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment to Mrs Whalley, 37 Adelphi Street, Lancaster, Christmas 1944.
Accession Number: KO2810/13

Airgraph, sent from Private Thomas Whalley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment to Mrs Whalley, 37 Adelphi Street, Lancaster, Christmas 1944.
Accession Number: KO2810/14

Airgraph sent from Mrs Pat Whalley, Adelphi Street, Lancaster to private Thomas Walley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal regiment, MEF. Dated 28 Mar 1945. With photograph of herself and child.
Accession Number: KO2810/15

Enlargement of photograph attached to Airgraph sent from Mrs Pat Whalley, Adelphi Street, Lancaster to private Thomas Walley, number 3716101, Support Company, Carriers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal regiment, MEF. Dated 28 Mar 1945. With photograph of herself and child.
Accession Number: KO2810/16
 

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