Photo Gallery
Depot & Lancaster, Returning Soldiers, Peace and Medal Presentations, 1919
Depot Groups
Depot Staff, King’s Own, Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster. 18 Feb 1919.
Dorothy Dearle Brooker (later wife of Sergeant
Philemon Westwood) standing third from right. Including boy scouts,
women and soldiers.
Accession Number: KO2764/16
Wedding of Sergeant Philemon Westwood and Dorothy
Dearle Brooker, 16 Aug 1919. Left to right; Susie Hollingshead (friend
of Bride and witness) Sergeant Philemon Westwood. Seated Sergeant George
Kellett, (witness) and Dorothy D Brooker (bride). Married at Lancaster
Register Office.
Accession Number: KO2764/17
Sergeant Philemon Westwood and Dorothy D.
Brooker standing at the rear of a group of women, including nurses, at
Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, 1919.
Accession Number: KO2764/18
Group of Sergeants and Warrant Officers at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster
circa 1919 with Sergeant Philemon Westwood
seated second from left.
Accession Number: KO2764/20
Battalions Return to Lancaster, 1919
1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Colour Party at
Lancaster Town Hall, 1919
Accession Number: KO0630/05
1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at
Lancaster Town Hall, 22nd June 1919
Accession Number: KO1017/129
2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Return to Lancaster of the Cadre of the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, March 1919. The battalion was the first to
return to Lancaster. The official welcome was held outside
Lancaster Town Hall in Dalton Square, Lancaster.
Accession Number:
KO0433/01
3rd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
3rd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Restoration of
the Colours of the 3rd Battalion at Lancaster on 15th April 1919 at
Lancaster Town Hall, Dalton Square, Lancaster.
Accession Number:
KO2490/422
1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Watched by the Mayor of Lancaster, Councillor William
Briggs OBE, and the Corporation, the Cadre and Colours of the 1st/5th
Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, parade in front of the Town Hall on their return from Germany
via Ireland on 17th October 1919. The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant
Colonel W G Hoare, DSO, stands to the left of the two mascots, Johnny, a
white pony given by the 2nd Battalion, and Joey, an Indian mule found at Ypres in 1915.
Accession Number KO0408/21, KO1533/03 and KO1141/01-30 & detail of Johnny and Joey.
Return of the Cadre of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, who had spent
time in Ireland after they had left Belgium in the summer of 1919.
Officers of the regiment are joined by the Mayor of Lancaster,
Councillor William Briggs, and the Mayoress, Mrs Mary Briggs. The
officer stood between the Mayor and Mayoress is Captain Noel Briggs,
their son. Captain Albert Hodgkinson, the Quartermaster, is stood
on the right. Photographed on the steps of Lancaster Town Hall 17th October 1919.
Accession Numbers: KO0408/20, KO0439/15, KO1141/01-29, KO1533/04 and KO2490/344
2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Return of the 2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, to
Lancaster, 14th June 1919. Parade outside Lancaster Town Hall,
Dalton Square, Lancaster
Accession Number: KO0369/03
Return of the 2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, to
Lancaster, 14th June 1919. Parade outside Lancaster Town Hall,
Dalton Square, Lancaster
Accession Number: KO0369/02 and KO2490/343
Discharged Soldiers Band
Lancaster Discharged Soldiers Military Band, 9th June 1919. This
band played in Market Square on 28th June 1919, the day the Peace Treaty
with Germany was signed.
Accession Number: LM96-45-732
Medal Presentations, Lancaster, 1919
Presentation of the Mons (1914) Star by General Parker, King’s Own,
Lancaster, 11th May 1919. Sergeant Philemon
Westwood receiving his medal.
Accession Number: KO0439/18 and KO2764/11
Presentation of the Mons (1914) Star by General Parker, King’s Own,
Lancaster, 11 May 1919. Sergeant Philemon Westwood
is second from left in front row, identified by the cross.
Accession Number: KO0439/19, KO2764/12 and KO1044/03
1st Battalion, King’s Own recipients of the Mons 1914 Star at Lancaster
11th May 1919.
Accession Number: KO2764/13
Peace Day, 19th July 1919
Peace Day, King’s Own, Lancaster. 19th July 1919. Mix of soldiers and
others at the event.
Accession Number: KO2764/15
Also see a Programme of the Peace
Celebrations
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