King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Nameplates

These brass nameplates were used by soldiers on their beds or kit boxes.

One of six blank plates, King's Own Royal Regiment.  (KO1281/03a-f)
Accession Number: KO1281/03

G Rose, number 1551, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO0058/20

Kit bag plate: Colour Sergeant W Breen, number 2276, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO0651/06

Door plate: Colour Sergeant W Breen, number 2276, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO0651/07

Rear of the door plate above, showing the impression of a different regimental badge, now covered by the brass cap badge.
Accession Number: KO0651/07

Private William Edwin Parkinson, number 3706023, enlisted into the King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster, on 14 Nov 1922 for a term of seven years in the regular army and five years in the reserves.  He was 18 years and 12 days old and came from Pendleton.  He was discharged on 28 Mar 1923 under the terms of Paragraph 392 (iii)c of the King’s Regulations for the Army (1912) as a “recruit within three months of enlistment considered unfit for service.”  The plate was donated by Mr H Y Usher of Blackburn, however it is not known how he acquired it.
Accession Number: KO0003/01

Sergeant Albert Walter John Antenen, number 3704520, King's Own Royal Regiment.  Enlisted May 1932.
Accession Number: KO1062/01

R Raven, number 3442237, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1387/01

G Brown, number 2784, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1608/01

Joseph Fargher, number 3710436, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1750/01

Kit bag plate: A Wilde, number 8992, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2119/03

W Busson, number 3709602, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2490/069

    
Robert Victor Holmes, number 3710132, King's Own Royal Regiment.  Front and rear.
Accession Number: KO2589/09

Albert McGuinness, number 3711458, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2592/10

Stanley Robson, number 3710127, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1826/29

Bed plate/kit box plate named to L Rowlandson number 3708694
Accession Number: KO2951/013

Bed plate for Private J L Wiggins, number 3711355
Accession Number: KO2972/01

Other examples in the museum's collection, not illustrated:

Regimental Servant

Brass nameplate for Regimental Servant, Jamadar Bhishti, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO0628/03