Photo GalleryFirst World War
1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in France and Flanders
1st/5th Battalion, King's Own, at La Clyttle, 1915, including
Private Omar Steel, sat up in the second row, first from the right.
Accession Numbers: KO0784/099, KO1336/01 & KO1463/01
Details of soldiers in the photograph from rear of KO0784/099
Guard of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 7th
September 1918.
Accession Number: KO2331/05
Three Sergeants (two not King's Own) including, seated, Sergeant Henry
Richard Harriott, number 242661, 1st/5th King’s Own.
Accession Number: KO2651/01
Four King's Own Sergeants including standing left, Sergeant Henry
Richard Harriott, number 242661, 1st/5th King’s Own
Two of the Sergeants appear to be wearing medal ribbons for gallantry
awards.
Accession Number: KO2651/02
1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Corporals at
Poperinghe 1917 including A Steele, Dixon and two others
Accession Number: KO0104/57
Zillebeke Trenches, Belgium, May 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/049
Shelling Menin Road, near Ypres, Belgium, 1915.
Private Carr is sat in the trench, you can see the 'T 5 King's Own' brass
shoulder title in the bottom right hand corner.
Accession Number: KO0784/047
Private Carr, Private Thompson and Sergeant Clowes in
the trenches at Loos, 1915. 'A Happy house in the trenches, Loos,
Winter 1915' is the handwritten caption written on the rear of the
photograph.
Accession Number: KO0784/124 and KO1898/43
Sergeant Alfred Clowes and Sergeant Nelson.
Accession Number: KO0784/037 and KO2795/11
Left to right, Captain Owtram, Lieutenant Gilchrist,
Captain Briggs and Lieutenant E R Simpson, at Loos, 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/115
Captain Fawcett at 'Dead Cow Corner' via Gellia Trench,
1915.
Accession Number KO0784/105
Three 1st/5th Battalion soldiers with some variation of
headwear!
Accession Number KO0784/109
The first gas masks, June 1915. 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/062
Firing rifle grenades, 1915.
1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/104
Sergeant Gill, from Morecambe, in the trenches near
Gellia Communication Trench, 1915. 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/106
The battalion's transport, former London Buses, near Bailleul, Belgium, 2nd
March 1915. 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/025
Soldiers rejoining the battalion, possibly from leave or having being
wounded, at Winnigeel, Belgium, 1915.
1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/024
Captain Milnes (all dressed up) and Major Fawcett.
Early 1916.
Accession Number KO0784/090
Snipers Mask.
Accession Number KO0784/052
Trying to mend telephone wires, Loos September 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/111
Headquarter Dugout at 'Sunken Road', winter 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/093
Huts at Zevecoton, Belgium, spring 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/057
Captain Harris, unknown and Lieutenant Mansfield outside
the battalion's huts at Zevecoton, Belgium, spring 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/056
Trenches near Zillebeke, May 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/050
Left to right, Sergeant Nelson, Captain Fawcett and
Sergeant Clowes, Belgium 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/038 and KO2795/12
Captain Eaves and Captain Fawcett enjoy some 'time off'
in the trenches near Kemmel, 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/103
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