Photo Gallery
The National Service Years 1945-59
1st Battalion, King's Own - Parades in Lancaster
See also: Presentation of the
Freedom of Lancaster to the Regiment August 1953
1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment parading in Lancaster, circa
1950s.
Accession Number: KO2590/140
1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment parading in Lancaster, circa
1950s.
Accession Number: KO2590/144
1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment parading in Lancaster, circa
1950s.
Accession Number: KO2590/152
Ceremony of Beating the Retreat at Ryelands Park, Lancaster. This
grand spectacle was the climax of a series of events as a farewell to
the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, before their amalgamation
with the Border Regiment. The photograph shows the massed bands
and corps of drums of the 1st and 5th (TA) Battalions, of the King's Own
Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1427/08
Ceremony of Beating the Retreat at Ryelands Park, Lancaster. This
grand spectacle was the climax of a series of events as a farewell to
the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, before their amalgamation
with the Border Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1427/09
Ceremony of Beating the Retreat at Ryelands Park, Lancaster. This
grand spectacle was the climax of a series of events as a farewell to
the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, before their amalgamation
with the Border Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1427/10
Ceremony of Beating the Retreat at Ryelands Park, Lancaster. This
grand spectacle was the climax of a series of events as a farewell to
the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, before their amalgamation
with the Border Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1427/11
Brigadier Goldie, CBE, inspecting the 1st Battalion Contingent at
Remembrance Sunday, 1950.
Accession Number: KO0788/041
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