King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

First World War

Wounded Soldiers and Medical Care

Group of wounded soldiers at Aberdeen General Hospital, 1915, including Lance Corporal Harold Hayward Wright of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  Wright enlisted as number 2030 in Morecambe on 3rd September 1914.  He is sadly not identified within the group.
Accession Number KO1529/03 

Wounded soldiers at Aberdeen General Hospital, 1915
Accession Number: KO1529/05

Wounded soldiers at Aberdeen General Hospital, 1915
Accession Number: KO1529/07

Group of wounded soldiers at an unknown location.  Private Edwin Davies enlisted in May 1916 and was later discharged due to his wounds.
Accession Number KO1014/01

Private J Bates, number 35016, of the King's Own and later Army Service Corps, in the front centre.
Accession Number KO1385/03

The Queen's Hospital 'Frognal' Sidcup, Christmas, 1917, Ward 4.  It is assumed that this photograph includes a King's Own soldier.  The Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries at Frognal, Sidcup performed plastic surgery of the face between 1917 and 1925 for wounded soldiers, under the Surgeon Harold Gillies.
Accession Number KO2070/02

Number 2890 Private Arthur Johnson of the 5th Battalion King's Own, and later the 32nd Battalion of the Machine Gun Corps. Johnson lived at Victoria Street, Morecambe and worked as a fisherman.  He was wounded whilst serving in France and Flanders.  He may have been wounded on more than one occasion, but it is recorded that he was gassed and admitted to hospital in August 1918.
Accession Number KO1926/21

Number 72 General Hospital at Tourville, France.  Private Arthur Johnson was a patient here.
Accession Number KO1926/18

Group of wounded soldiers, including Private Arthur Johnson.
Accession Number KO1926/15

Group of wounded soldiers, including Private Arthur Johnson.
Accession Number KO1926/16

Group of wounded soldiers, including Private Arthur Johnson.
Accession Number KO1926/17

Lance Corporal Sydney Cartmell, number 2094, of the 5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and two friends.  Sydney volunteered for service on 4th September 1914 and was one of the 'gallant 200' volunteers in Lancaster and Morecambe.
Accession Number KO1417/08

5th Battalion Group at Didcot, the card is postmarked 17th September 1914.  Private Sydney Cartmell is pictured on the right end.
Accession Number KO1417/07

Wound Label for Sydney Cartmell.  He was wounded in the face, head and left hand and had a compound fracture of the right tibia.  He was wounded on 16th October 1916 and had been administered 1/4 grain of morphine by mouth.
Accession Number KO1417/06

Letter from the padre at the 17th Casualty Clearing Station dated 15th October 1916 to Sydney Cartmell's father back in England.  'Severe shell wounds.....he is conscious but very weak....'
Accession Number KO1417/04

Certificate for the Silver War Badge issued to Lance Corporal Sydney Cartmell to recognise his discharge from the army due to wounds.
Accession Number KO1417/13

This previously unidentified photograph in the Sydney Cartmell collection has been identified as Private Frederick Cartmell, number 32890 of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  He was employed at Rainhill Asylum and he enlisted into the Royal Garrison Artillery as number 114704 and later transferred to the 1st Battalion of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  He was wounded early in 1917 and invalided home.  It was during this period of recovery this photograph was taken.  Frederick returned to the front in September 1917 and joined the 8th Battalion of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. He was killed in action on 26th September 1917 and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
Accession Number: KO1417/10

2nd Northern General Hospital  (Royal Army Medical Corps) at Leeds, in either February or March 1917.  Colour Sergeant John T Preston of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own, is seated second from the left.  Colour Sergeant Preston was discharged later in 1917, his military service had began in around 1897 with the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO2690/06

Lewisham Military Hospital, London, 1918.
Accession Number: KO1519/061

  
Lance Corporal Wilfred Knott in the centre of this charabanc outing of soldiers in hospital blues.  Somewhere near Knutsford, Cheshire.  The photograph was by F Danby of Church Street, Radcliffe.
Accession Number: KO2932/02

World War One Convalescent hospital in St. George's Day School, Heavily, Stockport, Cheshire.  Lance Corporal Wilfred Knott is sitting tot he right of the nurse in the centre.  The school/hospital happened to be adjacent to Wilfred Knott's home in Stockport.
Accession Number: KO2932/03

Group of wounded soldiers which includes at least one of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2590/14

Soldiers in hospital blues, reputedly in Church Stretton, Shropshire circa 1918
6th Left standing (front row) is Private Herbert Pearson, clearly seen wearing the King’s Own cap badge. Private Pearson was wounded in his left wrist.
Accession Number: KO2705/12