King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Territorial Force 1908-1914

4th Battalion, King's Own, Annual Camp 1911

Corps of Drums of the 4th Battalion, King's Own, at Oxenholme Station,
Kendal, on their way to Holmescales Camp, 1911.
Accession Number: KO1433/01

Holmescales Camp, near Kendal, 1911.
Accession Number: KO1181/073

Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King's Own awaiting inspection at
Holmescales Annual Camp, near Kendal, 1911.
Accession Number: KO1181/074

Kit inspection of soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Holmescales Camp, near Kendal, 1910.
Photo ‘YMCA Series 186’
Postmarked Kendal 12 Aug 1910. Addressed to Miss Gibson, 140 Ramsden Street, Barrow in Furness.
Accession Number: KO3100/45

4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment marching to camp at Holmescales, 1911.
Accession Number: KO1181/156

Stretcher bearers of the 4th Battalion, King's Own at Holmescales
Annual Camp, near Kendal, 1911.
Accession Number: KO1181/075

Soldiers of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment packing straw at
Holmescales Annual Camp, 1911.
   
Accession Number: KO1181/072

Soldiers of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at Annual Camp
Holmescales, near Kendal.  The North Lancashire Regiment and the
King's Own were in the same North Lancashire Brigade and therefore
shared their annual camp, along with the 5th Battalion of the King's Own.
Accession Number: KO1181/071

Officers of the 4th Battalion, King's Own at Holmescales Annual Camp, 1911.
Accession Number: KO1181/076

Colour Sergeant John Carmichael Bland, permanent staff instructor
for the 4th Battalion.  This photograph may have been taken at
the 1910 Annual Camp in Hornby, but one version of the image is
postmarked Kirkby Lonsdale, 5th August 1911 with the message: "Got
to Kirkby tonight just going back, did you get cheque?"  Sent to his wife
at Coulston Road, Lancaster.
Accession Numbers: KO1181/165 and KO1817/04

Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Annual Camp at Holmescales, 1911
Accession Number: KO3074/54