King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers

Colonial Buildings of the 19th Century

Officers Mess, Singapore, used by the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment from January 1899 to February 1900.
Accession Number: KO0594/02-27a

Mount Austin Barracks, Hong Kong, occupied by the 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in 1899.
Accession Number: KO0623/01-02

Officers Mess and Church at Shwebo, Burma, circa 1906.
Accession Number: KO1023-49A

Officers Mess, Shwebo, Burma, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1906.
Accession Number: KO0594/02-63

View of the Fort, Bhamo, on the Burma-Chinese Frontier, circa 1906.
Accession Number: KO1023/49

Sergeants Mess, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Nasirabad, 1895.
Accession Number: KO0809-01-37a

Fort William Barracks, Calcutta, India.  The buildings to the rear, left to right are Queen's Barracks, St. Peter's Barracks, Dalhousie Barracks, and the Roman Catholic Church.
Accession Number: KO0840/02-006

Dalhousie Barrack, Fort William, Calcutta.
Accession Number: KO1218/09

Barracks, Wellington Lines, Bombay, India.
Accession Number: KO1218/08

Staff College at Quetta, India.
Accession Number: KO2477/41a

Staff College at Quetta, India.  Entrance Hall.
Accession Number: KO2477/41b

Staff College at Quetta, India.  Mess Room.
Accession Number: KO2477/41c

Officers Mess, Imtarfa Barracks, Malta, 1896.  1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO0594/02-10

On first inspection these two photographs appear to be the same, however note the second carriage.  Officers Mess Imtarfa Barracks, Malta, 1896.
Accession Number: KO2663/04

South face of the officers mess, Imtarfa Barracks, Malta, 1896.
Accession Number: KO2663/02

Interior of court yard, officers mess, Imtarfa Barracks, Malta, 1896.
Accession Number: KO2663/05

Sergeants Mess and Married Quarters, Imtarfa Barracks, Malta, 1896.
Accession Number: KO2663/03 and KO2590

Regimental Barracks, Imtarfa Barracks, Malta, 1896.  1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO0594/02-11

'Men's Barracks' Imtarfa Barracks, Malta, 1896.  1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2663/01

Imtarfa Barracks, Malta, 1896.  The 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment is recorded as the first unit to occupy the newly built barracks.
Accession Number: KO0623/01-07

1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, officers mess set for dinner in Malta circa 1903.
Accession Number: KO0404/09

Lance Corporal Culbert of 'A' Company, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment ready for kit inspection at Malta, March 1902.
Accession Number: KO0085-06

Lance Sergeant Wilfred R Thompson in his barracks in India or Burma, around 1906-1908.  1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1318-07