King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Private Henry Thomas Ashmore, 1st/4th King’s Own, 28th July 1917.  Watercolour by Captain Albert E Ellwood MC.
Private Ashmore is dressed for battle as a number 2 of a Lewis Gun team of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  Believed to be Private Henry Thomas Ashmore, number 201429, from Bolton, who enlisted on 18th February 1916, was wounded in November 1917 and discharged on 21st February 1919.
KO0688/01    Gift of Mrs G E Ellwood.

2nd Lieutenant Christopher George Hodgson 1st King’s Own.  Oil over photograph by Vandyke.
Son of Lieutenant Colonel C L Hodgson of the King’s Own, Christopher was commissioned into the King’s Own on 10th February 1940.  He served with the 1st Battalion and flew with them from India to Iraq in 1941.  He was killed in action at Falluja on 22nd May 1941, at the age of 20.  He is buried in Habbaniya War Cemetery, Iraq.
KO1017/092   Transferred from Regimental Headquarters

Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Lefroy Hodgson, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1901-1927.  Father of 2nd Lieutenant Christopher George Hodgson (above).
Accession Number: KO0968/01

Sir John Salmond, GCB, CMG, CVO, DSO, DCL, LLD, The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1901-1912, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, 1930-1933.  Painted by Roy Kearsley, commissioned by Brigadier John Hardy, 1962.

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond (1881-1968). Joined the Royal Flying Corps at the beginning of the First World War, he was promoted Director General of Military Aeronautics at the War Office in 1917. At 36, he was the youngest ever member of the Army Council and in 1931 became Marshal of the Royal Air Force. He came out of retirement to join the Second World War Effort.
Accession Number: KO0924/01

2nd Lieutenant Richard Leslie Brown, 1st Battalion, King’s Own, was awarded the Albert Medal For Saving Life on Land.
“In France on 27th March 1917 Lieutenant Brown was instructing a class on firing rifle grenades. Owing to a defective cartridge case one of the grenades was lifted only about two inches, and then fell back into the cup. The safety catch had been released and the grenade was fusing. Lieutenant Brown at once ordered the men to clear and, running forward, picked up the rifle seizing it between his legs, grasped the grenade in his hand and endeavoured to throw it away. While he was doing so it exploded, blowing off his right hand, and inflicting other wounds. Had not Lieutenant Brown seized the grenade in his hand, thus sheltering the men, there could be little doubt that several of them could have been killed or severely injured.”
The Albert Medal was exchanged for the George Cross in 1973 and the Albert Medal presented to the Museum.  Later the museum acquired the George Cross and Brown's other medals.
This portrait was painted by Herbert James Gunn RA in the 1964 when he was Chairman of the Board of the engineering firm of Hopkinsons Ltd of Huddersfield, who he had worked for since the 1920s. He died on 25th September 1982.
Accession Number: KO2568/01

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