King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Regimental Weddings

Marriage of Sergeant (late Lieutenant Colonel) William Carter to Annie Cook, only child of George and Isabella Cook, of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Accession Number: KO2168/011

Regimental Wedding Group pre-World War One Sergeant getting married.
Accession Number: KO2756/17

Wedding of Lieutenant Lionel Ilfred Cowper, at the Garrison Church, Calcutta, India, 1st Battalion, King’s Own. 1st February 1906
Left to right: Major Boyce; Lieutenant Grover; Mrs Boyce; Lieutenant Pott; Lieutenant Uzielli; Lieutenant Phillips; Lieutenant Booth; Mrs Carter, Mrs Clough; Mrs Bois, Mrs Borrett, Lieutenant Cowper; Mrs Cowper; Lieutenant Stott; Lieutenant Lodwick; Mrs Lloyd, Padre, Mrs Lister (mother of the Bride); Major Bow?; Kathleen P?; Colonel Carter and Mrs Wilson.
Accession Number: KO0987/01

Wedding group, believed to be Colonel Faunce.
Accession Number: KO2535/02

Wedding group, believed to be Colonel Faunce.
Accession Number: KO2535/03

Lieutenant and wife on wedding day, rear of card marked ‘Best wishes from your little friend Nellie Henson, 4 Mar 1916’
Number 7986 Private J Henson was born on 3 Jul 1885 and joined the King’s Own in around 1903/04. He was promoted Lance Sergeant with the 2nd Battalion in Apr 1909 and in Jul 1909 became the Battalion Chiropodist. He was promoted Sergeant in Mar 1910, still with the 2nd Battalion.
He was commissioned from Sergeant to 2nd Lieutenant on 6 Mar 1915, Temporary Lieutenant 28 Nov 1915 and Lieutenant 20 Dec 1915. He is noted as being employed with the Colonial Office. From Dec 1918 to Dec 1919 he was with the 1st King’s Own. He retired on 27 Aug 1920. He was called up for the Defence Force from 10 Apr 1921 to 3 Jun 1921. Reserve of Officers until 3 Jul 1935. Died 23 Oct 1951.
Accession Number: KO2190/50

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

Wedding, of Sergeant Stanley Humprheys, of the King’s Own to Violet Elizabeth Foy, daughter of Regimental Sergeant Major W H Foy, of the Regimental Depot, Lancaster, 2nd August 1930.
Photograph by Herbert of Lancaster
Accession Number: KO3074/39

Unknown wedding from the album of Captain Noel Briggs, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO1141/01-42

The wedding of Captain J E E Packard, MC, King's Own Royal Regiment, to Miss Joan Worship, daughter of Hugh Worship, the well known former Ceylon Planter, of Earsham Lodge, Suffolk.  Captain Packard was the son of Mrs Packard of Swafield Hall, Norfolk.  The wedding took pate at St. Michael's Church, Polwaite on 6th January 1925.  Packard, an officer of the King's Own, was at the time at the Staff College, Quetta, India.  The bridesmaid was Miss M C Packard, the groom's sister, the best man was Captain V L de Cordova, also of the King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2477/41-366

The wedding of Captain J E E Packard, MC, King's Own Royal Regiment, to Miss Joan Worship, daughter of Hugh Worship, the well known former Ceylon Planter, of Earsham Lodge, Suffolk.  Captain Packard was the son of Mrs Packard of Swafield Hall, Norfolk.  The wedding took pate at St. Michael's Church, Polwaite on 6th January 1925.  Packard, an officer of the King's Own, was at the time at the Staff College, Quetta, India.  The bridesmaid was Miss M C Packard, the groom's sister, the best man was Captain V L de Cordova, also of the King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2477/41-367

Wedding of Captain Isaac Cross Pedley to Kathleen Creedon, Christmas 1938 at Weatherall in Cumbria.  Captain Pedley served with the 4th Battalion, King's Own, and transferred to the 56th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery The King's Own, in 1938.  He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in December 1927, and during his service in the Second World War was taken prisoner of war and was held on the island of Formosa, now Taiwan. He was demobilised in July 1946.  Kathleen Creedon was the daughter of Captain Thomas George Creedon, who was Quarter Master of the 1st Battalion, King's Own, in June 1919 and from March 1920 to December 1929 the Quarter Master of the Regimental Depot at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster. 
Accession Number: KO2513/108

Unknown regimental wedding group 1930s or later.
Accession Number: KO1824/031

Unknown regimental wedding group, 1930s.
Accession Number: KO1824/034

Unknown officers wedding, 1930s.
Accession Number: KO1519/058

Officers outside Silverdale Parish Church before the wedding of Captain D J Martin, 24th June 1953
Accession Number: KO0788/113

Wedding of Lieutenant Peter Blincoe and Ivy Reid, 14th September 1957 at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster. John Reid is on the right and Major Gibbs in the centre.
Accession Number: KO2684/27

Food and mess staff at the Wedding of Lieutenant Peter Blincoe and Ivy Reid, 14th September 1957 at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO2684/28