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First World War
1st/4th (TF) Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - 1914
A company of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
outside their Headquarters at Ulverston Drill Hall, 1914.
Accession Number: KONeg160
Members of 'C' Company, 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment at Barrow in Furness, 1914.
Accession Number: KO2944/05
Private Tom Willetts at Maidenhead Railway
Station, with 4th Battalion, King’s Own, circa Aug-Oct 1914. ‘To Ruth
from Tom with best love”
Accession Number: KO3010/01
Private Tom Willetts, 4th Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, circa Aug-Oct 1914 whilst guarding the Great
Western Railway. “this is my guard were I am standing corner of a
railway bridge only we walk up and down through the bridge. To Ruth From
Tom with best Love”
Accession Number: KO3010/31a
Four soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
probably Maidenhead area whilst Guarding the Great Western Railway circa
Aug to Oct 1914. ‘With good luck and best respects to you Ruth from Tom’
Photograph by R Clements, 30 Queen Street, Maidenhead. Private
Tom Willetts collection.
Accession Number: KO3010/34a
Group of soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment probably out side a railway station, with a motor car. “do you
know anyone on this card Ruth. With best love to you from Tommy. xxx”
Photograph by R Clements, 30 Queen Street, Maidenhead. Private
Tom Willetts Collection.
Accession Number: KO3010/35a
Sergeants of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
guarding the railway, August to October 1914.
Accession Number: KO1535/03
Group of officers and sergeants of the 1st/4th Battalion, including
Colour Sergeant John T Preston, from Dalton in Furness. The postmark
is dated 28th September, 1914 and posted from Twyford, Berkshire.
Colour Sergeant Preston enlisted in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in around 1897.
Accession Number KO2690/13
Soldiers of the 4th Battalion King’s Own and various civilians at Mill
Meadows, Twyford, September 1914. Images includes nine soldiers and a
group of civilians enjoying a tea party.
Accession Number: KO2546/20
Three soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, at Waltham Sidings, Great Western Railway.
The rear of the cards is marked ‘No. 2 Relief, Waltham Sidings, Patrol,
Aug 1914. Photograph by R Clements, 30 Green Street, Maidenhead.
Accession Number: KO3100/10
Group of seven soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, at Waltham Sidings, Great Western Railway.
The rear of the card is marked ‘Aug 1914 Waltham Sidings, Berks, ‘some
of the boys’.
Accession Number: KO3100/11
Group of six soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, at Waltham Sidings, Great Western Railway, with a number of
railway wagons to their rear. Circa Aug 1914
Accession Number: KO3100/12
Group of the 1st/4th Battalion at Sevenoaks in Kent, towards the end of
1914. Second left is Colour Sergeant John Preston. The Company
Sergeant Major is seated and the others are sergeants.
Accession Number KO2690/04
"...our butcher, cutting up the meat....it is nearly Xmas and we are so
far from home, never mind we must put up with it...." wrote Colour
Sergeant John Preston of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own at Sevenoaks,
December 1914.
Accession Number KO2690/15
Soldiers of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
at Sevenoaks in 1914/15. This photograph is reported to have
appeared in the Barrow newspaper. William Clark is standing third
from the right.
Accession Number: KO2981/05
Soldiers of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at
Sevenoaks in 1914/15. Probably Quartermaster's Department.
Accession Number: KO2981/06
Members of the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
Christmas 1914 at Sevenoaks.
Accession Number: KO2917/71
Photograph, taken at Taplow Barracks, of 4th King’s Own including
Number 149 Private Lishman Wilson. From London Road, Lindale in Furness,
he was serving with B Company in June 1914. He was born on 23rd
November 1882.
Accession Number: KO2590/327
Unidentified group of soldiers of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, possibly of the 4th Battalion, based upon the Dalton in
Furness photographer, and Manchester Regiment, First World War. Including one officer
of the King’s Own, one Sergeant of the King’s Own and a Sergeant Major
who has a chest full of medals. Photograph by Hargeaves of Dalton
in Furness.
Accession Number: KO3100/83
Group of soldiers of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, assumed to
be 4th Battalion, First World War, with civilians ‘family’ who it could
be assumed the soldiers are billeted with.
Accession Number: KO3111/12a
Message on rear of the above photograph.
Accession Number: KO3111/12b
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