King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

First World War

3rd/5th (Territorial Force) Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Three unidentified soldiers, and one boy, of the 3rd/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, First World War. Outside a house, on which is chalked ‘3/5 KORL 9 Men’.
Accession Number: KO3100/82

3rd/5th (Territorial Force) Battalion of the King's Own.  Winners of the Bayonet -v- Bayonet and Ambulance Race, Oswestry Garrison Sports, 1916.
Accession Number KO0380/01

3rd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, August 1916. Photograph noted as being presented by Colour Sergeant Richard Watson.
Accession Number: KO0408/13

Colour Sergeant Richard Watson.
Accession Number: KO0408/13a

Cider the dog, with the 3rd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  Cider moved with the battalion to Oswestry when the 3rd/5th was merged with the 2nd/4th Battalion.
Accession Number: KO0408/13b

The postcard is dated 14th April 1917 and signed 'With best wishes 240478 Corporal A Fleming, 4th The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Park Hall Camp, Oswestry.  The interior view shows four soldiers sitting or lying on beds and one standing near the door. Two trunks can been seen, on which has written on ‘J.R. Smith Regimental Tailor 5th King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Row Head, Lancaster’. The other has ‘J Parkinson The King’s Own’.
The photograph probably dates from the time that the 4th and 5th Reserve battalions were merged into one.
Accession Number: KO2546/76

    
Detail of KO2546/76.

   
Items pinned to the wall of the hut include a copy of the 'Fleetwood Chronicle' which again suggest 5th Battalion personnel as well as the 4th Battalion.
Detail of KO2546/76.