King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

First 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