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The National Service Years 1945-59

Hong Kong 1954-1956

Drummer James Lord Collection

Drummer James Lord, number 23052751, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, served in Hong Kong between 1954 and 1956. 

Album cover, colour image of Hong Kong horse race track.
Accession Number: KO2907/01

Group of three King’s Own soldiers, Drummer Lord on the right.
Accession Number: KO2907/02

Unknown soldier from Liverpool, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/03

View towards NAAFI, Beas Stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/04

Unknown Drummer, 1st King’s Own, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/05

Group of soldiers, ten in Number One dress, three in battle dress, Beas Stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/06

Unknown soldier, Beas Stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/07

Two soldiers on board ship, on the left if Brian Shaw.
Accession Number: KO2907/08

Corporal Horton, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/09

Three soldiers.
Accession Number: KO2907/10

Drummer Lord (left) at one of the defensive positions, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/11

Drummer Lord at one of the defensive positions, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/12

Drummer Lord at one of the defensive positions, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/13

Two soldiers, 1st King’s Own.
Accession Number: KO2907/14

Drummer Lord, Beas Stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/15

Soldier getting shaved in the field.
Accession Number: KO2907/16

Soldiers in the defensive positions facing the Chinese Border, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/17

Soldiers in the defensive positions facing the Chinese Border, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/18

Private Fog, in the defensive positions facing the Chinese Border, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/19

Soldier in the defensive positions facing the Chinese Border, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/20

Soldiers in the defensive positions facing the Chinese Border, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/21

Soldier with shovel in the defensive positions facing the Chinese Border, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/22

Soldiers in the defensive positions facing the Chinese Border, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/23

Soldier in the defensive positions facing the Chinese Border, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/24

Right Private Edwards and Left Drummer Lord, Beas Stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/25

View of Chinese/Hong Kong Border from battalion’s defensive positions.
Accession Number: KO2907/26

View of Chinese/Hong Kong Border from battalion’s defensive positions.
Accession Number: KO2907/27

Drum Major Charles Lawton, 1st Battalion, King’s Own, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/28

Three soldiers with the bottle of beer piled up, with Drummer Lord in the centre.
Accession Number: KO2907/29

Drummer Lord, Beas Stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/30

Band and Corps of Drums on parade, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/31

Harbour View, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/32

Drummer James Lord, in civilian clothes, Beas Stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/33

Unknown soldier of the 1st King’s Own, Beas Stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/34

Three soldiers on board ship in battledress.
Accession Number: KO2907/35

Drummer James Lord
Accession Number: KO2907/36

Private Shaw on board ship.
Accession Number: KO2907/37

View from ship, Cape Town?
Accession Number: KO2907/38

Corps of Drums with Drummer James Lord at the end, right.
Accession Number: KO2907/39

View from ship.
Accession Number: KO2907/40

View from ship.
Accession Number: KO2907/41

Chinese sewing lady, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/42

Soldiers asleep on boat.
Accession Number: KO2907/43

Group of soldiers, including Cole second from left and Healy at the right, Beas stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/44

Rural Building, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/45

Four soldiers at Ripple Bay, Hong Kong. Including left to right Horton, unknown, Shaw and Lord.
Accession Number: KO2907/46

View of padi fields Hong Kong
Accession Number: KO2907/47

The Corps of Drums playing at night, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/48

Soldier at Beas Stables, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/49

View of landscape, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/50

Four soldiers at Ripples Bay on the beach.
Accession Number: KO2907/51

Three soldiers in the water at Ripples Bay, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/52

Corps of Drums
Accession Number: KO2907/53

Group of four soldiers, New Year 1956. Left to right: unknown; Edwards; Lord and unknown.
Accession Number: KO2907/54

Sergeant James Lord, with No.1 dress trousers and battle dress jacket, coloured photograph.
Accession Number: KO2907/55

Sergeant James Lord, with No.1 dress trousers and battle dress jacket, coloured photograph.
Accession Number: KO2907/55a

Three soldiers, New Year 1956, Hong Kong. Sergeant James Lord in the centre.
Accession Number: KO2907/56

Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, Hong Kong, 1956.
Accession Number: KO2907/57

Four soldiers on the beach at Ripples Bay, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/58

Soldiers at the beach at Ripples Bay, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/59

Mortar team, Hong Kong. Sergeant George Ellwood standing with Mortar.
Accession Number: KO2907/60

Mortar team, Hong Kong, Sergeant George Ellwood, standing to rear with Mortar.
Accession Number: KO2907/61

Initiation in to Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/62

Function in Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess, Hong Kong. Sergeant Lord third from right.
Accession Number: KO2907/63

Function in Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess, Hong Kong. Sergeant Lord is second from left.
Accession Number: KO2907/64

Sergeant James Lord, Hong Kong, in Barracks.
Accession Number: KO2907/65

The ‘Regimental Band’ leading out the Sergeants versus Officers Football Match, Christmas Day 1955.
Accession Number: KO2907/66

Street in Kowloon.
Accession Number: KO2907/67

Modern buildings in Kowloon.
Accession Number: KO2907/68

The Alhambra, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/69

Gurkha goat ceremony with the head of the goat being cut off.
Accession Number: KO2907/70

The Corps of Drums at the St. Patrick’s Day dinner in the Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong. Left to right: unknown, Drummer Lavin and Drummer Lord.
Accession Number: KO2907/71

Troops on parade being inspected, wearing battle dress.
Accession Number: KO2907/72

Function in Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess with Sergeant Atkinson and Sergeant Lord to the very right.
Accession Number: KO2907/73

The regimental guard of honour at the marriage of the Catering Sergeant, whose car was pulled along by other mess members.
Accession Number: KO2907/74

Queen’s Birthday Parade, Hong Kong, 1956.
Accession Number: KO2907/75

Queen’s Birthday Parade, Hong Kong, 1956.
Accession Number: KO2907/76

Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Accession Number: KO2907/77

Peak Tram, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/78

Bird’s Eye view of Victoria City, Hong Kong.
Accession Number: KO2907/79

Street view, Kowloon.
Accession Number: KO2907/80

Accommodation above Hing Cycle Co Ltd, Kowloon.
Accession Number: KO2907/81

HMT Dunera
Accession Number: KO2907/82

Dormitory accommodation in HMT Dunera
Accession Number: KO2907/83
 

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