King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

First World War

4th (Reserve) or 2nd/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Oswestry

Hutted camp at Oswestry, possibly 1917.
Accession Number: KO2546/59

Group of 4th Battalion soldiers at Oswestry including Private Arthur Hammond second from the left on the back row.  Circa 1915 or 1916.  The dog is probably called 'Cider'.
Accession Number: KO2546/55

Group of soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, possibly circa 1917 or 1918, and possibly at Oswestry.
Accession Number: KO2709/21

Fatigue party of the 4th Battalion at Oswestry, Private Arthur Hammond is standing on the extreme right.
Accession Number: KO2546/52

Group of the 4th Battalion, at Oswestry, circa 1915 or 1916.
Accession Number: KO2546/57

Men of the 4th Battalion marching through Oswestry, circa 1915 or 1916.
Accession Number: KO2546/56

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.
Detail of KO2546/76.

Group, possibly at Oswestry, but no confirmed details.
Accession Number: KO2839/31

Group of soldiers at Oswestry, circa 1917/1918.
Accession Number: KO1045/01 and KO2745/01

A Company's Running Team, 4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Oswestry, 1916.
Accession Number: KO2917/51

Group of soldiers at Oswestry, circa 1917.
Accession Number: KO2546/19

Group of soldiers, possibly at Oswestry, signed by Corporal Linwood, and dated 15th August 1917.
Accession Number: KO2917/06

Physical and Bayonet Instructors of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Oswestry circa 1917 or 1918.
Rear, left to right: Sergeant Owen; Corporal Riley; Sergeant Johnson; Sergeant Gorst; Lance corporal Lowden; Sergeant Atkinson; Corporal Tolley.
Seated, left to right: Sergeant Airey; Sergeant Charles Williams; Captain Huthwaite MC; Staff Instructor Moss; Sergeant Smith.
At front, left to right: Corporal Gregson and Sergeant Standen.
Accession Number: KO2920/01

Group of soldiers believed to be at Oswestry.
Accession Number: KO2985/56

King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment soldiers with aircraft, First World War.
Photograph by Valentines, Leicester House Studio, Oswestry.
Accession Number: KO3046/01

Group of soldiers of the Territorial Force Reserve battalions of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Park Hall Camp, Oswestry, 1916.
Shown as ‘Hut 14 KORL Park Hall Camp, Oswestry’
Accession Number: KO3074/24

4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Reserve Battalion, Group at Park Hall Camp, Oswestry, 1917
Accession Number: KO1124/02