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Annual Acquisition Records 1971 - 1975

The Regimental Journal, The Lion and The Rose, later The Lion and The Dragon, and the Museum's Annual Report has always published a list of acquisitions to the museum's collection. This listing briefly describes the items acquired and the donor's name.

1971

	KO1018 Manuscript history Captain Taylor. Gift of Captain S A G Taylor, Kingston, Jamaica.
	KO1019 Medals, uniform, photographs etc relating to Brigadier John Herbert Hardy. Gift of Lieutenant Colonel John Hardy.
	KO1020 Coat and Jacket, Major A D Seddon. Gift of Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1021 Photos, regimental archives, etc. Transferred from Regimental Headquarters, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster.
	KO1022 Photo, Billy Wilson. Gift of Mr Murphy, Lancaster.
	KO1023 Various medals, photographs etc. Transferred from Regimental Headquarters, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Lancaster.
	KO1024 Letter re baptism and appointment of J Rowlandson to Regiment. Gift of Mrs M C Rowlandson, Arundel.
	KO1025 Medals to Private Hughie Jones. Gift of Mr Jones, Birkenhead.
	KO1026 Pennant from Trieste football match, 1945. Gift of Lieutenant Colonel Hamish Taite.
	KO1027 Certificate of Service, Sergeant William Gardner, 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions. Gift of Mr John Gardner, Lancaster.
	KO1028 Medals of Major Patrick John Henry Weir. Gift of Mrs S W Watney, Ringwood, Hampshire.
	KO1029 Regimental shoulder titles. Gift of Regimental Headquarters, King’s Own Royal Border Regiment.
	KO1030 Shoulder titles and buttons. Gift of Mrs H Yeo, Bury.
	KO1031 Medal of Sergeant J Geary. Gift of Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1032 Palm Cross given to RSM Bowles in Mesopotamia. Gift of Mrs Bowles.
	KO1033 Pair of silver and ivory whist score marker, 1890s. Gift of Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1034 Officers service cap. Gift of Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Royle, Priest Hutton.
	KO1035 Sketch of Officers Mess, Bowerham, Lancaster. Gift of Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1036 Album and Scrap book, 1955-58. Gift of Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1037 Sub Rosa Magazine, June 1917 and Cartoon of Genera Jeudwine, 55th West Lancs Division. Gift of Mr K L Newton, Blackpool.
	KO1038 Photo of Private Daniel Brown MM. Gift of Mrs E Huntington, Lancaster.
	KO1039 Nameplate from LMS Locomotive, ‘King’s Own’. Gift of Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1040 Silver wine jug, 1864-5.
	KO1041 Silver regimental golf spoon, 1937-38. Gift of Lieutenant General Sir R N Anderson.
	KO1042 EPNS Golf spoon. Gift of Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1043 Block of four Gibraltar stamps.
	KO1044 Photos, 2nd King’s Own, depot, etc 1910-1920s. Gift of Mr C Case, Holborn, London.
	KO1045 Photos, 4th and 5th King’s Own, First World War. Gift of Mr G Lambert, Lancaster.
	KO1046 Newspapers: death of Lord Roberts; end of World War One and VE Day, 1945. Gift of Mr S H Smith, Skerton, Lancaster.
	KO1047 Photos, 9th King’s Own, 1915. Gift of Corporal Munro, RAF Wittering.
	KO1048 Medals to Sergeant Henry Edward Smith. Transferred from Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1049 Medal of Private T Barron. Gift of Colonel R H Grace, Regimental Secretary, The Buffs.

1972

	KO1050 Postcards, ruins of Belgium, Ypres etc. Gift of Mrs R E A Jones, Reading.
	KO1051 Prisoner of War Care Committee collectors badge. Gift of Mrs Bent.
	KO1052 Hockey medal, 1923. Gift of Mrs V L de Cordova.
	KO1053 Shako Plate, 1st Royal Lancashire Militia. Purchased.
	KO1054 Part of hard tack biscuit sent home during Boer War. Gift of Miss Cooper, Lancaster.
	KO1055 Postcards of Prisoner of War Camp near Hanover. Gift of Mr Holland.
	KO1056 Athletics Medal. Gift of E Bates, Worthing.
	KO1057 Sports Medal. Gift of Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1058 Regimental Colour of the 1st Royal Lancashire Militia. Gift of Guardian Estates, Lytham Hall.
	KO1059 Medals of Lance Corporal Fred Kellet. Gift of Mrs Kellet, Lancaster.
	KO1060 Regimental Cane. Gift of Lieutenant Colonel A T T Card, Wimborne, Dorset.
	KO1061 Cap badge, shoulder titles. Gift of Mr G Ball, Morecambe.
	KO1062 Bed plate, paperwork and pass to Sergeant A W J Antenen. Gift of Lieutenant Tony Antenen.
	KO1063 Glengarry badge. Purchased.
	KO1064 Photo, 5th King’s Own at Kirkham Camp, 1912. Gift of Mrs Mount, Lancaster.
	KO1065 Programme for Coronation Review of Ex-servicemen. Gift of C Case, London.
	KO1066 Waist belt claps and sweet heart brooch. Purchased.
	KO1067 Watercolour design for a regimental programme cover. Purchased.
	KO1068 Medals, photos, etc. of Lieutenant Raymond Thomas Somerville. Bequest of the late R T Somerville MC.

1973

	KO1069 Medals and photograph album of Captain John Nisbett Bromilow. Gift of Colonel H M Bromilow, Wrexham.
	KO1070 Sports medals and bible. Gift of Mr D Lynch, Manchester.
	KO1071 Warrant, photographs etc of Warrant Office Class 2 William Ralph. Gift of Mrs D Mount, London.
	KO1072 History of the King’s Own by Howard Green. Purchased.
	KO1073 The Story of the 55th West Lancashire Division. Purchased.
	KO1074 Photo, 4th King’s Own. Gift of Mr J E Wardley, Lancaster.
	KO1075 Pay book of Lance Corporal Wright Shirt. Gift of Captain S Sedman, Colchester.
	KO1076 Lion pouch badge. Purchased.
	KO1077 Medals of Lieutenant Denis Gage Deane-Tanner. Gift of Mrs H Fandel-Phillips, Brokenhurst.
	KO1078 Photos of portrait of General Studholme Hodgson; General George Morrison; William /Sankey. Purchased.
	KO1079 Albert Medal to 2nd Lieutenant Richard Leslie Brown. Gift of The Secretary of State, The Home Office.
	KO1080 Lecture notes, jungle warfare, 7th King’s Own, India. Gift of Mr D A Kilduff, Barrow in Furness.
	KO1081 Photo: Private J Gillibrand, boxing champion. Gift of Mr C Case, London.
	KO1082 Glengarry Badge. Gift of the family of the late Major General Luckock.
	KO1083 Photos, 2nd Lieutenant Robert Thompson, 1st Volunteer Battalion. 4th King’s Own World War One. Gift of Colonel A T T Card.
	KO1084 Photo, Boer dam across Tugela River, 1899-1902. Gift of Miss A Wilson, Belfast.
	KO1085 New Testament, 1900. Gift of Mr F O Haydock, Pendleton, Salford.
	KO1086 Silver spirit lighter. Anonymous.
	KO1087 Glengarry cap, 3rd King’s Own. Gift of Captain E G Royle, London.
	KO1088 Medals of Private Joseph Edwin Trickett. Gift of Mrs V Davies, Liverpool.
	KO1089 Ration strength of 1st King’s Own through First World War. Certificates of Captain Ralph Charles Matthews. Gift of Mrs C Matthews.
	KO1090 Medals, letters, documents, photographs etc to Private William Waters. Gift of Mrs E Q Enderby, Boston, Lincolnshire.
	KO1091 Photos of the 1st/5th King’s Own 1914/1915. Gift of Mr James Barrow, Goring on Sea.
	KO1092 Helmet plate, Other ranks, 1902-1908. Purchased.
	KO1093 Photos of the funeral service of Lieutenant Colonel C G S Irvine, 1937. Gift of Mr G Dawson, Kendal.
	KO1094 Letter from Brigadier Kentish, orders from May and June 1918. Gift of Mr J Kewley, Fleetwood.
	KO1095 Medals, letters, news cuttings, of Private William Procter Parr. Gift of Mrs Parr, Lancaster.
	KO1096 Military Medal to Private Thomas Campbell. Anonymous.
	KO1097 Photos of the dead on Spion Kop, 1900. Gift of Mr E Rawlins, Milnthorpe.
	KO1098 Medals, citation, memorial scroll etc to Captain George Pickup. Gift of J Campbell, Inveraray, Argyll.

1974

	KO1099 Photos, 1st King’s Own, 1912. Gift of Mr B Lancaster, Skerton, Lancaster.
	KO1100 Certificate, Royal Humane Society: Private John Wolfe, 1st Royal Lancashire Militia, 1879. Gift of P Connerton, Marsh, Lancaster.
	KO1101 Badge of the Prisoner of War Care Committee. Gift of Miss Parr, Lancaster.
	KO1102 Epaulette, Lonsdale Local Militia.
	KO1103 Letter from Private George Jackson, 5th King’s Own, 1914. Gift of Mr K Richardson, Wennington.
	KO1104 Collection of bills and receipts relating to Captain John Welch, 1st/4th King’s Own, 1914-1922. Gift of Mrs Welch, Lancaster.
	KO1105 Pass to Drummer J Jones, 1922. Gift of Mr A Jones, Lancaster.
	KO1106 Cap badge and medals of Private Richard Patrick Harlow. Gift of Mrs B Harlow, Stalybridge.
	KO1107 Photos: officers of the regiment; 1st and 2nd King’s Own; Colonel Bois material; letters; watercolour drawings; comfort fund poster. Gift of Mrs E N Bois, Bexhill.
	KO1108 Medals of Private Sidney Vincent. Postcards and certificate. Gift of Mr L Vincent, Leicester.
	KO1109 Silk postcards, Ypres and France. Gift of Miss E Millar, Lancaster.
	KO1110 Photo, 3rd and 4th Militia Battalion, 1894. Gift of Miss E Barker, Yealand Redmayne.
	KO1111 Medal of Sergeant J Huntington. Gift of Mr James Huntington, Fleetwood.
	KO1112 Photos: British War Cemetery, Athens. Gift of Mr J E Midgley, Leeds.
	KO1113 55th Divisional badge in glass frame; 4th King’s Own note paper; cards, notebooks and paperwork etc relating to Captain Welch and the 4th Battalion. Gift of Dr P Welch, Richmond.
	KO1114 Collection of postcards sent to Miss Nellie Hutton by Sergeant Fred Kellett, 2nd King’s Own, First World War. Gift of Mrs N Kellett, Lancaster.
	KO1115 Record, Band and Drums of the 1st King’s Own Royal Border Regiment. Gift of RHQ, King’s Own Royal Border Regiment.
	KO1116 Notebook containing an account of journey from England to Vryheid, 1900-1901 by Pte J Leonard, 2nd King’s Own. Gift of Mrs Ross, Blackpool.

1975

	KO1117 Victoria Cross and other medals to Private Harry Christian VC. Purchased.
	KO1119 Typescript history of Rugby Football in the King's Own by Colonel Howard Green. Gift of Colonel W H Green, Aldwick, West Sussex.
	KO1120 Letter and typescript of POW trail of Private George Farrell. Gift of Mrs N Willis, Middlesbrough.
	KO1121 Collection of medals, photographs, documents, regimental silver etc transferred from Regimental Headquarters, King’s Own Royal Border Regiment, Lancaster on closure in 1975.
	KO1122 The Edinburgh Almanack, 1769. Transferred from the City Museum.
	KO1123 Journey to the Trenches, The Life of Isaac Rosenberg, 1890-1918 by Joseph Cohen. Purchased.
	KO1124 Photos, 2nd/5th King’s Own, 1916; 4th King’s Own, 1913-1917; newspaper cuttings etc. Gift of Mr T E Williams, Millom, Cumbria.
	KO1125 Silver tankard to Lieutenant Anthony Morris, killed in action 13 Oct 1914, 1st King’s Own. Gift of Miss A Robson, Hove.
	KO1126 Typescript of poem composed by Private H Eccles, 5th King’s Own, 1916. Gift of Mrs A Barton, Lancaster.
	KO1127 Copy of The King’s Own Ibalur Parish Magazine. Gift of Mr E Parsons, Cranmore, Shepton Mallet.
	KO1128 Silver cup and case, London, 1805, presented to Captain John Phillips, 1806, Royal Lancashire Militia. Purchased with grant aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund.
	KO1129 Education certificates to Private George Steel, 1st King’s Own, 1922 and 1929. Gift of Mr G Steel, Leyland.
	KO1130 Group photo including Major R H Welch, DSO. Gift of Mr M Merchel.
	KO1131 King’s Own Commonwealth Division arm brassard, and identity card of Lance Corporal Ashe. Gift of Mr Denis Ashe, Ramsbottom.
	KO1132 Pass issued to Private W Thompson, 1st/5th King’s Own, 1916. Gift of Mr W Thompson, Lancaster.
	KO1133 Regimental flag. Gift of Major Jackson, Lancaster.
	KO1134 Photocopy of programmes Officers v Sergeants football matches, 1940 and 1941. Gift of Colonel Petty, Carlisle.
	KO1135 Folder of documents relating to 4/5 King’s Own, 1959-63. Gift of Major Jackson, Regimental Headquarters, Lancaster.
	KO1136 Collection of slides of regimental uniforms, copied from an album in the effects of Major R H Welch, sold by Tyson’s Booksellers in Lancaster.
	KO1137 Cloth shoulder title. Gift of Mr P Thompson, Morecambe.
	KO1138 Photos of Private Harkwright, Private Lewis and soldiers of the 5th King’s Own, Didcot. Gift of Mr J Lawrence, Lancaster.
	KO1139 Commemorative medals, Danbury and Connecticut. Regimental printing dies for letterhead. Regimental Headquarters.
	KO1140 Discharge certificate of Private Robert Battersby, 1905. Gift of Mrs Parkinson, Lancaster.
	KO1141 Album of photographs, 1912-26, William Noel Briggs. Gift of Mr C N Briggs, Lancaster.
	KO1142 Photos and programme relating to laying up of Colours of the 2nd King’s Own in Gibraltar, 1955. Not previously registered.
	KO1143 Handwritten instructions given to Sergeant J Miles proceeding by RMS Don to Netley Hospital, Southampton, from Jamaica, in charge of an insane Major R F Devereux. Gift of Mr H Miles, Manchester.

Only a proportion of our collections are on display at anyone time. Certain items are on loan for display in other institutions. An appointment is required to consult any of our collections which are held in store.