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Annual Acquisition Records 2016 - 2020

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.

2016-2020

bulletKO3043 Scarlet tunic, trousers, sash, buff leather belt and hat of Sergeant John T Preston, 4th King’s Own. Purchased.
bulletKO3044 Suitcase, named to Private Edwin Crook, 1st King’s Own, 1950s, documents, photographs etc relating to his service in Hong Kong. Gift of Mrs Janet Coyle, Greenock, Scotland.
bulletKO3045 Photograph: Quartermaster’s Staff of the 2nd/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, in France or Belgium, circa 1918. Gift of Mr Tim Cross, Tarporley, Cheshire.
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bulletKO3048 Book: Soldiers as Workers, Class Employment, conflict and the nineteenth-century military. By Nick Mansfield, Liverpool University Press. Published 2016. Gift of Liverpool University Press, Liverpool.
bulletKO3049 1914/15 Star and fibre identity disc to Private Harry Ferguson, number 240130, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. From the estate of Mr T R W Ferguson, via Holdens Solicitors, Kendal.
bulletKO3050 British War and Allied Victory Medal and Memorial Plaque to Lance corporal Alfred John Ling, number 26816, 7th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Killed in action 22 Sep 1917. London School Board Attendance Medals, photographs, documents. Gift of Mrs Sylvia Chapman, Swaffham.
bulletKO3051 Photos lent to be copied of the 2nd Battalion King’s Own at the King’s Birthday Parade, Asmara, Eritrea, 1948 and group photo of those soldiers of the King’s Own who took part in the 1953 Coronation Parade in London. Lent to be copied by Mr Leonard Knowles, Lancaster
bulletKO3052 Photographs of Grave of Lance corporal Cleaver Lawrence Alfred Newitt, number 3707676, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Who died 11 Nov 1941 at the age of 35 years. Son of Alfred Herbert and Eliza Newitt. Husband of Eva Newitt of Bermondsey. Buried in Nunhead All Saints Cemetery, South London. Also photos of War Graves commission information panels in the same cemetery. Photographed by Peter Donnelly, Curator.
bulletKO3053 Photographs, notebooks, postcards, pencil drawing relating to Captain Albert Ellwood MC, 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Gift of Mr Raymond Ellwood (nephew) Kendal.
bulletKO3054 Photographs and postcards, relating to the First World War service of Private Albert Holt, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, in both England and on the Western Front. Gift of Mrs Jan Henschke, Bare, Morecambe.
bulletKO3055 Souvenir Programme for the Warrant Officers, Colour Sergeants and Sergeants, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Reunion Ball at Saighton Camp, Chester, 7 Oct 1950. Gift of Gwyn Evans, Cockermouth, Donor had a family printing business in Chester and they printed items for many of the regiments which were based in Chester.
bulletKO3056 Location cards for the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, from 1946 to 1959 originally used by the Army Staff Duties Branch. Gift of Army Historical Branch.
bulletKO3057 1914/15 Star and Allied Victory Medal of 2nd Lieutenant George Rowland Paget Howson, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. With photographs and letters relating to his service and death. Gift of Mr A R P Williams, Aston End, Hertfordshire.
bulletKO3058 Army kit bag named to Private Baker, 23061138, King’s Own Royal Regiment, HMT Cheshire, Hong Kong to United Kingdom. Gift of Mr Trevor Lawton, Ashton-under Lyne.
bulletKO3059 Military Medal, 1914/15 Star, British War and Allied Victory Medal awarded to Private James Hall, number 240507, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Plus two gallant conduct cards, bugle, photographs and postcards. From the estate of Mr G P Hall, via the Executor, Mr Harris, from Mr Leslie Wilkinson, Halton, Lancaster.
bulletKO3060 Scrap album relating to Chaplain Kevin Wilson, who was Padre to the 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment circa 1917-1918. Purchased at Auction.
bulletKO3061 Correspondence relating to the death of Private Herbert J Royle, number 3714549, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, killed by accident on 18th March 1944 in Burma, sent to his wife. Includes matters concerning the payment of benefits etc. Gift of Mrs Christine Sleightholme, Blackpool.
bulletKO3062 Photographs relating to the service of Sergeant William Rennie, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, in India, circa 1930s and Second World War. Pair of embroidered handkerchiefs. Gift of Mr Anthony E Rennie, Largs, Ayrshire.
bulletKO3063 Book: Ladybarn Men. In Memory of the men of St. Chad’s, Ladybarn, Manchester, who gave their lives in The Great War 1914-1918. By John Davies. Gift of the author.
bulletKO3064 1914-15 Star, British War and Allied Victory Medals to Private Richard Holland, number 200619, 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Bequest of Mr Holland, son, from executor Mr David Williams, Long Newton, Stockton on Tees
bulletKO3065 Digital photograph supplied by Morton & Eden Ltd, London
Roads of Remembrance Committee of the Roads Beautifying Association Bronze plaque named to 2nd Lieutenant A T (Peter) Nickel of the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. (No further trace) and
Captain Ralph D’Albini Morrell, of the 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, was killed in action on 8 Aug 1916 whilst in temporary command of the battalion in the Trones Wood sector, the Somme.
bulletKO3066 Photograph of the 4th (TF) Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Kirkham, 1912. Gift of Mr Ron French, Beccles, Norfolk, via Kirkham Library and the County Records Office, Preston.
bulletKO3067 Morecambe Bay Medical Journal, Military Medicine Edition, Autumn, 2015, Volume 7, Number 5. Including features on Captain Bingham, 1st/5th King’s Own. Gift of Mr Bryan Rhodes, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Lancaster.
bulletKO3068 Book: Infantry Divisions Identification Schemes, 1917. By Mike Hibberd. The Military Historical Society, Special Number, 2016. Purchased.
bulletKO3069 Book: Burton in Lonsdale Remembers, Centenary of the Great War, 2014-2018, A commemorative trail around Burton in Lonsdale, North Yorkshire. Gift of the Publisher.
bulletKO3070 Mantel Clock, made by Garrad Clocks Co. Britain, and marked with the retailers name ‘Kramer Cairo’. Plaque on the top of the clock states “Presented to RSM R R Ralph on his promotion by members of the Sergeants Mess, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Cairo, 1940” Ralph Reginald Ralph was commissioned in 1940 in to the Leicester Regiment. Gift of Mr Andy Runciman, Paignton, Devon.
bulletKO3071 Battle Dress Blouse, with King’s Own shoulder titles and evidence that other badges have been removed. The label on the inside has some information: “275833 Major Midgley, Burscough Station.” The number 275833 would, however, appear to belong to a Major A F Fletcher, who was major in Aug 1963. Lieutenant J E Midgley appears as number 271826, Captain Royal Engineers, Jun 1949. Gift of Neil Barnett, Burton in Holme.
bulletKO3072 Documents relating to Private Michael Carradus, number 1044, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Gift of Mrs Julie Wilding, Lancaster.
bulletKO3073 Long Service and Good Conduce Medal to Colour Sergeant Patrick McCraith, 4th King’s Own Royal Regiment. Gift of Dr Kennedy McCraith, Glasgow.
bulletKO3074 Photographs, postcards, documents etc relating to the regiment and soldiers of the regiment purchased on Ebay and other places. Including Special Order of the Day issued to Private F G T Barton, King’s Own, 1945; Envelope addressed to the Adjutant, The King’s Own, Singapore, 1899; Victor Comic featuring the action of Private H Christian VC; Identity card issued to Lieutenant E M F Taylor, 10th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 14 Apr 1916; Photo of Wedding, believed to be that of Sergeant Stanley Humphreys and Violet Elizabeth Foy, daughter of RSM and Mrs W H Foy, who are also featured in the photograph. and other photographs, tankard and documents relating to CSM Humphreys; Victor Comic featuring the story of the sinking of Princess Marguerite with the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment on board and the distinguished acts of Private William Crellin of the 1st Battalion; Victor Comic featuring the story of Major Oswald Cuthbert Borrett’s action for which he was awarded the DSO with 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment on 18 Feb 1915; Victor Comic Number featuring the story of Private Jack White’s action for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross with the 6th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment on 7/8 Mar 1917. Victor Comic featuring the story of Sergeant Corker of the 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps in the Reichswald Forest in 1945; Sports Medal, Football, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Chancellor Cup, 1930-31, to Private Atherton; Bronze printing die with the King’s Own Lion, above the wording “The King’s Own” and then a space and then “R Lancaster Regt; Programme and chair ticket for Southsea Clarence Esplanade Pier, 25 Jul 1873 for a programme by the Band of the 4th King’s Own Royal Regiment. With Chevalier F Pisecky, Conductor; Silverdale, Lancashire, Great War Peace Medal.
bulletKO3075 General Service Medal with bar ‘Palestine’, Second World War medals and Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Warrant Officer Class 2 William Kenneth Eyre, 2nd and 1st Battalions, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Sports medal, shooting spoons and certificate of service. Gift of Ms Elizabeth Eyre.
bulletKO3076 Scrap album containing documents, programme, menus, etc relating to the service of Warrant Officer Class 2 William Kenneth Eyre, 1st and 2nd Battalions, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Colour transparencies and cover for documents. Gift of Mrs Barbara Perez.
bulletKO3077 Shooting medal, Private L Edgar, Depot, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Gift of Mr C Holden.
bulletKO3078 Collection of photographs relating to Private Thomas Eric Birchall, number 22436278, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Dec 1950 – Dec 1952. Copied from originals lent by Mrs Alison Clay.
bulletKO3079 Collection of photographs relating to Private Thomas Eric Birchall, number 22436278, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Dec 1950 – Dec 1952. Gift of Mrs Alison Clay.
bulletKO3080 First World War medals, memorial plaque, and letter relating to Private John Nutter, 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own. Killed in action 1917. Gift of Mr Les Nutter.
bulletKO3081 Photo and discharge certificate to Lance Corporal Walter Batty, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, First World War. Gift of Mrs Julie Saunders.
bulletKO3082 Second World War medals to Corporal Harold Bracegirdle, 8th and 1st Battalions, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Photographs and documents. Gift of his daughters.
bulletKO3083 Photos of D Company, 1st Battalion, King’s Own, in Osnabruck and Korea, 1953, including the donor. Gift of Mr Jack Ellel.
bulletKO3084 Letters and covers from Jane Anne Hall, Lieutenant Colonel Jasper Hall and his son Captain Jasper Hall, King’s Own, 1840s. Gift of Mr Barry Fisher.
bulletKO3085 Caricature of Lieutenant James Frederick Melville Openshaw, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Jun 1937 whilst he was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the King’s Own in Aldershot. Sketched/painted by Amies Milnor, and signed and dated by him, ‘1937’. Gift of Sir Peter Openshaw.
bulletKO3086 Photos relating to Sergeant Philip Fordham, DCM, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Gift of Ms Debbie Shepherd.
bulletKO3087 Set of covers addressed to Sergeant Instructor of Musketry Spencer, 1st Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1890s-1900s. Purchased.
bulletKO3088 Photo of the grave of Private Charlie Keith, number 1856, 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, accidentally killed at Slough on 21 Oct 1914. Buried in Lindale-in-Cartmel (St. Paul’s) Churchyard. Gift of Mr Paul Thompson.
bulletKO3089 Photographs of the 1st Battalion, 1930s. Purchased.
bulletKO3090 Negatives of 2nd Lieutenant Samuel Peter Fawcett, 7th Battalion, King’s Own, Second World War; Lancaster military parades etc; Home Guard etc. Purchased.
bulletKO3091 Documents relating to the service of Sergeant Basil Parker, 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Second World War. Gift of Mr Stephen Parker.
bulletKO3092 Typed manuscript copy of “Up the Line, With the Best of Luck” “The War of 1914-1918 in France and Flanders” “ A series of narratives, sketches and descriptions from the point of view of firstly, a private soldier and junior NCO, and Secondly, an ex-ranker Subaltern. Written between 1956 and 1960 by Henry Ogle. Gift of Mr Adam Cree.
bulletKO3093 Photographs of graves of King’s Own soldiers who died in the Second World War and are buried in Northern France. Gift of Pat and David Shackleton.
bulletKO3094 Collection of photographs, documents etc, relating to the service of Private John Thomas Green, number 2569089, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Gift of Mrs Zena Wilson.
bulletKO3095 Official illustrated wounded soldier discharge certificate to Private Alfred Stockley, number, 37061, 2nd/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Discharged 16 Jan 1919. Un-officially hand coloured. Photographs, bible and new testament.. Gift of Mr Richard Cook.
bulletKO3096 Order of Service for the Unveiling of the War Memorial, at the Centenary Congregational Church, Lancaster, on Sunday 14 May with an address by the Reverend J Andrew Tait BA. Gift of Mr Ian Hook, National Inventory of War Memorials, Imperial War Museum, London.
bulletKO3097 Documents and photographs relating to the service of William Edward Chafer, 1950s. Gift of Miss Linda Chafer.
bulletKO3098 Sedbergh and District 1914-1918. Compiled by Sedbergh and District History Society, Edited by Diane Elphick. Published in 2016 by Sedbergh and District History Society, Sedbergh. Gift of Sedbergh and District History Society.
bulletKO3099 Books on the Victoria Cross and Regimental History, one time the property of Albert Halton VC. Gift of Mr Graham Bromley.
bulletKO3100 Photographs, postcards, documents etc relating to the regiment and soldiers of the regiment purchased on Ebay and other places. Including Testimonial letter for Corporal William Middleton by Band Master M Curry, dated 23 Nov 1882; Programme for the Grand Coronation Gymkhana and Fair, 12 May 1937. To be held on The Transport Ground, Wellington, India; Photographs of the 1st/4th Battalion guarding the Great Western Railway in 1914; British War and Allied Victory Medals to Sergeant R Taylor, number 1738, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment; Canvas rifle case, circa early 1900s, named to Colour Sergeant E Lewis Jeffries, number 559, Musketry Instructor, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment; Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Private J Sullivan, number 1127, 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment; Photos of Major Henry Dearden Matson, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and Machine Gun Corps. Photographed at Fort Bliss, Texas, United States of America, where he was posted in 1918; Postal cover addressed to “The Library, Royal Lancaster Regiment, Kurrachee, India” with Queen Victoria postage paid and on the rear “W. H. Smith & Son, 186, Strand, London”; Pass: 2nd Lieutenant R M Anthony has permission to be in the streets of Arras, during the hours of daylight. Signed by Captain, Adjutant, 8th (Service) Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Feb 1917
bulletKO3101 Photograph of Boy Scout at Morecambe’s Temporary Cenotaph, circa Sep 1919. Gift of Mr Alan Hague.
bulletKO3102 Plaque featuring two brass lions, one mess dog lion (one mess dog lion missing) bandsman lyre badge and engraved plaque: “Corporal D B Lowery, number 22534607, 1st Battalion King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster, 27 Jul 1951 to Oct 1959. 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Border Regiment Oct 1959 to 16 Feb 1977” Gift of Mrs Helen Smith, Executor.
bulletKO3103 Photographs relating to the service of Private Brian Shuttleworth, 1950s. Photographs copied from Mr Brian Shuttleworth.
bulletKO3104 Photographs relating to the service of Lance Corporal Walter Raven, First World War. Photographs copied from Mr Keith Raven.
bulletKO3105 Photographs relating to the service of Drummer Keith Raven, 1950s. Photographs copied from Mr Keith Raven.
bulletKO3106 Second World War Medals to 2nd Lieutenant Dudley Henry Philip West, 56th Anti-tank Regiment, RA, TA, King’s Own killed in action whilst serving with 56th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery 22 May 1940. Photographs, letters, memorial notices etc. Gift of Mr Philip Vigne.
bulletKO3107 Photo of Unidentified group of five soldiers of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, circa 1919. Gift of Mr Hazelwood.
bulletKO3108 Photos of Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant Joseph Woodcock, number 92, 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Photos of Brigade Sports Day, 1st King’s Own, Hong Kong, 1950s. Gift of Mrs Sheila Jackson.
bulletKO3109 Album of photographs relating to an officer of the 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster, 1920s. Purchased.
bulletKO3110 Photographs and archive material relating to Private Albert Halton VC. Gift of Mr Graham Bromley, Watford.
bulletKO3111 Various items purchased including Pewter Tankard with Royal Artillery badge and ‘262’, which relates to 262 Battery, 66th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, and named to J E Ann; photographs; embroidered tea cosy; certificates relating to Warrant to Stanley Blezard, number 3708499, King’s Own; Regimental Flags; items relating to Company Sergeant Major (CSM), later Lieutenant Colonel, Stanley Humphreys, King’s Own.
bulletKO3112 Memorial Plaque, to Corporal John Kenneth [Kennaugh] Titterington, number 13192, of the 6th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Died in India, 16 Aug 1916. Gift of Mr William Titterington, Eastlake, Ohio.
bulletKO3113 Account Books: Officers’ Mess, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own, and subsequently 5th Battalion Territorial Force, 1905-1923, 5th Battalion, King’s Own, 1924-1931; and 5th Battalion, King’s Own, Oct 1947 to Jun 1952; . Showing expenditure for each officer who attended Camp. Various letters and receipts relating to annual camps.
Album of photographs relating to the 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, from circa 1919 to the 1970s.  Gift of Captain Dave Hall, Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment Former Permanent Staff Administration Officer covering Alexandra Barracks, Lancaster
bulletKO3114 Photographs, and Golden Roll of Honour for Private John Robert Preston, number 241853, 8th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Died of wounds 13 Apr 1918, age 25 and Buried in Pernes Military Cemetery, France. Son of John and Alice Ann Preston of Hambleton, Poulton-le-Fylde. Received anonymously in a box which was addressed to the ‘Royal Lancashire Museum’ in Bury
bulletKO3115 Bound Book containing “Employee’s at Lune Mills who joined up for the Boer War From 1899 to 1901”
Handwritten details giving the details of the employee, their address, regiment joined, age, marital status and job at the Mills. Containing circa 105 names.
Bound Book containing “Employee’s at Lune Mills, Killed, Wounded & Missing 1914-1918”
Men are shown as being Lune Mills or St. George’s Works (SGW)
Gift of Mr George Niven, Lancaster
bulletKO3116 Sports Medals, named to Lance Sergeant S Blezard of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own; photographs, India, 1930s, also relating to Sergeant Blezard. Purchased on Ebay.
bulletKO3117 Material relating to Private Frederick Pye, First World War; Home Guardsmen Frederick Pye, and John Pye, Lancaster Home Guard, Second World War; part of wooden soled boot worn by John Pye when he stood on an explosive device on Tarnbrook Fell, Dec 1944. Gift of Mrs Joyce Huddleston, Lancaster
bulletKO3118 Photographs of Graves of Second World War soldiers who are buried in France. Gift of Pat Shackleton, Staveley.
bulletKO3119 Branch Standard of the King’s Own Royal Regiment Association, Lancaster Branch. Gift of County Headquarters, Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment
bulletKO3120 Photographs of regimental silver, medals and other items, placed on loan to the museum by the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment as part of the closure of County Headquarters, Preston.
bulletKO3121 Pair of silver bayonet tips, circa 1900, featuring the Lion and IV. From Stuart Eastwood, Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life.
bulletKO3122 Saddle Blanket, with sewn on embroidered patch with ‘IV’ and the Lancaster Rose. From Stuart Eastwood, Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life.
bulletKO3123 Medals and miniature medals of Major General Russell Mortimer Luckcock, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, and Colonel of the Regiment, 1945-1947. Gift of Mr Tom Luckcock, great nephew, Royston.
bulletKO3124 Various items purchased on Ebay, including photographs, greeting cards, etc. Collection of photographs relating to CSM, later Lieutenant Colonel, Stanley Humphreys, King’s Own. Collection of postcards relating to WO 2 (CSM) William Wood, number 5185, of the King’s Own, 1900s to First World War. Collection of photographs of King’s Own soldiers and groups 1900s to First World War. Purchased.
bulletKO3125 Poem, The Story of the Message by Ellis Williams, Honorary Secretary The King’s Own Old Comrades’ Association. To the Glorious Memory of Private James Miller VC. Gift of Mrs Gladys Holden, Leyland.
bulletKO3126 1914-15 Star, British War and Allied Victory Medals, to Private James Frith, 7th Battalion, King’s Own, photo of grave. Gift of Mr P W Frith, Anglesey.
bulletKO3127 Christmas Card, Propaganda from The Korean People’s Army and The Chinese People’s Volunteers, Korea, 1952-53. With message to British officers and soldiers. Gift of Mr Brookes, Cumbria.
bulletKO3128 Second World War medals to Private/Trooper Nelson Close, 5th Battalion, King’s Own and 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps. Gift of Mr Donald Nelson, Dudley.
bulletKO3129 Memorial Plaque to Private William Orlando Bagley, number 19436, 7th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Died of Wounds 22 Nov 1916. Buried in Portwood (St. Paul), Churchyard, Stockport. Gift of Mr Roy Jepson, Kent.
bulletKO3130 Military Medal and 1914-15 Star Trio to Lance Corporal William Hutchinson, number 13642, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment; and 1914-15 Star Trio to his brother, Lance corporal Thomas Hutchinson, number 1477, of the 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. First World War silk postcards in original envelopes. Gift of Mr Peter Burt (great nephew) Askam in Furness.
bulletKO3131 Photo of Grave of Private Reginald Kenneth Vines, number 3973798, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died as Prisoner of War (captured on Leros) 20 Jan 1944, age 23. Son of Reginald George and Edith May Vines of Newbridge, Monmouthshire. Buried in Phaleron War Cemetery, near Athens, Greece. Gift of Lynn Davies, Cardiff.
bulletKO3132 Photos of the 10th Battalion, King’s Own, 151st Regiment Royal Armoured Corps and 107th Regiment RAC, The King’s Own, Second World War. Collection relating to Trooper Harry Higson, number 3716948, 10th Battalion, 151st Regiment RAC and 107th Regiment RAC The King’s Own. Gift of Mr Martin Garlick, via email.
bulletKO3133 Photo of Private Frederick Thompson, number 19504, 6th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Born in Wednesbury, enlisted Accrington, killed in action 9 Apr 1916 and commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq. Gift via email.
bulletKO3134 1939-45 War Medal; Territorial Efficiency Medal and 1937 Coronation Medal to Drum Major Joseph Richard Howson, 5th Battalion, King’s Own. Photographs, certificates, letters etc relating to his service in the 1930s and 1940s.
bulletKO3135 Photographs of the Memorials in the floor, in the South Transept of Chester Cathedral.
John Hostage, Proctor, died 3 Mar 1796. Also Mary Elizabeth Baynham, daughter of the above and wife of Lieutenant George Baynham, King’s Own Infantry. Married 14 Aug 1799 and died 4 May 1800, age 17 years. Also Lieutenant Jeremiah Buckley, of the 4th Infantry, Son in law to the above John Hostage. Digital image supplied by Major James Welsh, Shrewsbury.
bulletKO3136 Collection of photographs of soldiers of the King’s Own, First World War. Purchased.

 

 

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