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First World War

7th (Service) Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - Page Six

Photographs from an Album put together by Charles Leslie Roberts who was commissioned into the 7th Battalion King's Own in September 1914.  He was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in February 1916.

Hayling Island, Machine Gun Course, 15 May 1915- 29 May 1915 On the Range. Watching a demonstration of indirect fire.
Accession Number: KO1769/01-80

Hayling Island, Machine Gun Course, 15 May 1915- 29 May 1915 On the Range. Number 18 Squad. Robb, Commandant and Sergeant Instructor Keeble.
Accession Number: KO1769/01-81

Hayling Island, Machine Gun Course, 15 May 1915- 29 May 1915 On the Range. Commandant.
Accession Number: KO1769/01-82

Hayling Island, Machine Gun Course, 15 May 1915- 29 May 1915
The Royal Hotel.
Accession Number: KO1769/01-83

Hayling Island, Machine Gun Course, 15 May 1915- 29 May 1915
Recreation, Sun Baths. Saltmarsh, Farmer.
Accession Number: KO1769/01-84

Some time for recreation at Hayling Island.
Accession Number KO1769/01-85

Hayling Island, Machine Gun Course, 15 May 1915- 29 May 1915
Leaving, 29 May 1915. With Erskine and McGavin.
Accession Number: KO1769/01-86

Lune on Bulford Ranges, 14 Jun 1915
Accession Number: KO1769/01-091

'Valder and Baby H', visitors to the hospital, June 1915.
Accession Number KO1769/01-98

Wareham, August 1915, construction of 'Armstrong Huts'.
Accession Number KO1769/01-114

Wareham, August 1915, construction of 'Armstrong Huts'.
Accession Number KO1769/01-115

Vickers Machine Gun at Grantham circa 1916.
Accession Number KO1769/01-131

Grantham, 1918, Sugar, A Torn Sack. Our hut orderlies. Armstrong hut to rear and two soldiers clearing up sugar from the ground which has been spilt out.
Accession Number: KO1769/01-184

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