King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

First World War

1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Sevenoaks, 1914-15

Dr Bill George, from Lancaster, and Medical Officer to the 1st/5th Battalion, is seen inoculating Sergeant Clarkson at Sevenoaks, November or early December 1914. 
Dr George was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1913 and won the Military Cross during the war.
Sergeant Richard William Clarkson, number 1542 and later 240238, enlisted on 13th June 1913 and arrived in France with the rest of the battalion on 14th February 1915.  He lived at Addlecroft, Lancaster and was employed as a clerk.  He was wounded at Givenchy on 9th April 1918.  After the war he became a policeman in Lancaster.
Accession Number KO0104/44

The caption for this photograph names Lieutenant Lloyd Evans and 2nd Lieutenant R Gardner at St. Martin's, Sevenoaks.  Both were later commissioned in 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/012

Practise trench digging at Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1914.  Photograph by W Johnstone of Lancaster, Number 482
Accession Number: KO1241/03

Practise trench digging at Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1914.  Photograph by W Johnstone of Lancaster, Number 520
Accession Number KO1270/01

Practise trench digging at Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1914.  Photograph by W Johnstone of Lancaster, Number 521
Accession Number KO3013/77

1st/5th Battalion, King's Own, Signallers at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number KO1091/05

'A' Company, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO1396/02 & KO1091/08

'E' Company, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO1225/02

'F' Company, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO0104/56; KO1091/09 & KO2490/418

'F' Company, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO0195/04

1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Officers at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Rear row, left to right: 2nd Lieutenant Hinton; Lieutenant Bates; 2nd Lieutenant Bell; Lieutenant W N Briggs; Lieutenant Cowham; Lieutenant Seward; and Lieutenant Coupland.
Seated, left to right: Lieutenant Milnes; Lieutenant Lloyds-Evans; Lieutenant Deed; Lieutenant Simpson; Lieutenant Preston; Lieutenant Hodgkinson (Quartermaster); Lieutenant ? and Lieutenant W George (Medical Officer)
Accession Number: KO0104/47; KO0439/02; KO0439/03 & KO0439/06

Officers of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO0439/04

Officers of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO0104/49 & KO2490/416

Officers of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO0104/43 & KO0439/05

Officers and the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Sevenoaks, 1914.
Left to right: Lieutenant and Quartermaster Albert Hodgkinson; Captain George; Lieutenant Colonel Lord Richard Cavendish; Major J H Bates; Major Cadman; Captain Parsons; Captain ?; Captain ?; Captain ? and Lieutenant ?.
Accession Number: KO0104/55

Group of captains of the 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at Sevenoaks, circa Nov 1914.
Photograph by Johnson of Lancaster and numbered ‘356’
Accession Number: KO3074/31

Group, possibly Quartermaster's Department Staff, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own, probably at Sevenoaks, 1914/1915.  The officer in the middle is Lieutenant and Quartermaster Albert Hodgkinson.
Accession Number: KO1003/24

Group of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Seated second from the right is Omar Steel who was awarded the Military Medal whilst serving with the battalion in France and Belgium.
Accession Number: KO1336/02 and KO1185/01

Regimental Police of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO2358/01

Group of 'old sweats' of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO1270/02

Standing is Private Harold Gordon Cooper of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, photographed in around November or December 1914 in Sevenoaks.
Accession Number: KO2412/02

Unknown group of 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Sevenoaks, November 1914.
Accession Number: KO2709/24

Second from the left, standing, is Private Harold Gordon Cooper of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, photographed on the 26th November 1914 with other members of the Officers Mess staff.
Accession Number: KO2412/03

Group of five soldiers of the 5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Sevenoaks, circa November 1915.  Note in the window at the far right of the photograph are a set of photographs, some of which appear to be featured on this page, indicating that the photographer was clearly present for a few days.
The photograph is marked on the rear in pencil 'T Seed'.  It is believed that this is Ted Seed, who is probably from Blackpool.  Records show that he was later Acting Sergeant John Edward Seed, number 1356/240145 of the 1st/5th Battalion of the King's Own. 
The photographer is marked as W Johnston, 4 Great John Street, Lancaster, and numbered '73' on the front.

Selective enlargement of display of photographs in the window in the above photograph.
Accession Number: KO3074/50

1st/5th Battalion, King's Own, Machine Gun Section at Sevenoaks, December 1914.
Accession Number KO0439/07

     
Captain G W Sharpe and Captain J M Young, adjutant of the 5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, stood at Sevenoaks discussing the 'Mobilization Scheme' of the battalion.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-18

Some members of 'G' (Blackpool) Company of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO1898/41

Members of the 1st/5th Battalion of the King's Own at Sevenoaks, 1914/1915.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-36

Signalling Section, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Knole Park, Sevenoaks, February 1915.
Accession Number: KO0563/01

Members of the 1st/5th Battalion of the King's Own at Sevenoaks, 1914/1915
Accession Number: KO2160/37-40

Members of the 1st/5th Battalion of the King's Own at Sevenoaks, 1914/1915.
Accession Number: KO2160/37-43

Photograph believed to be members of the 1st/5th Battalion of the King's Own at Sevenoaks, 1914/15.
Accession Number: KO2839/23

Sevenoaks - London Road and the Crown Hotel.  Some of the officers were billeted in the Crown Hotel in late 1914 and early 1915.
Accession Number: KO0715/19