Photo Gallery
First World War - Soldiers outside
Billets in the UK.
Soldiers of the 2nd/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
and the land lady. Possibly in Blackpool, 1915.
Accession Number: KO2950/84
Un-identified group of the 5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, believed to be in Blackpool, and thus would be the Reserve
Battalion, later the 2nd/5th Battalion.
Accession Number: KO2230/01
Un-identified group of the 5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, believed to be in Blackpool, and thus would be the Reserve
Battalion, later the 2nd/5th Battalion. Note the "post office" to
the very right of the photograph, see the enlargement below.
Accession Number: KO3046/55
Note what appears to be the "Post Office" of the Battalion located in
the garden of one of the houses in which the soldiers were billeted.
Accession Number: KO3046/55(part)
Un-identified group of the 5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, believed to be in Blackpool, and thus would be the Reserve
Battalion, later the 2nd/5th Battalion.
Accession Number: KO2384/01
2nd/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Group of
soldiers photographed at Dean Street, Blackpool, including Tom Armour
from Glasson and Lancaster, David Richardson from the Spinners Arms,
Wilf Whiteley from Glasson and Bert Waterhouse.
Accession Number: KO2490/415
Seven unidentified soldiers of the 5th (Reserve) Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, circa 1914 or 1915, outside their billet, the
rear of the postcard is marked in pencil ‘Fleetwood’.
Accession Number: KO3111/62
Eight soldiers of the 5th King’s Own outside Billet in
Blackpool including Private William Hodgson. “Mrs Stewart’s Apartments’ seen
on wall of house. Private Hodgson is the tall soldier stood at
the back.
Accession Number: KO2716/133
Group believed to be of the 2nd/5th Battalion (5th Reserve Battalion) of
the King's Own at Blackpool in 1914.
Accession Number: KO2839/30
Group of soldiers of a Territorial Force Battalion of the King's Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, outside houses which they were probably
billeted in, possibly 5th Battalion in Blackpool in 1914/15.
Accession Number: KO3046/41
Machine Gun Section, 8th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
Bournemouth, 1915. Private Wilfred Knott
is fourth from the right on the back row.
Accession Number: KO2932/01
Unidentified group of soldiers of the 8th Battalion, King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, Bournemouth, 1915.
Accession Number: KO3013/23
A corporal of the King's Own, on the left, and of the Royal Army Medical
Corps on the right. The sign on the house states 'J. Lightbrown
Blayden House'
Accession Number: KO2474/02
A corporal of the King's Own, on the left, and of the Royal Army Medical
Corps on the right.
Accession Number: KO2506/06
A corporal of the King's Own, on the right, and of the Royal Army Medical
Corps on the left, possibly with family or may be with the people in
whose house they could have been billetted.
Accession Number: KO2506/05
Unknown soldier of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, First World
War.
Accession Number: KO2917/91
Three unidentified soldiers of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
First World War. Stood with rifles in front of a house, which may have
been their billet.
Accession Number: KO3100/69
Unidentified soldiers of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, First World War, outside their billet.
Accession Number: KO3111/11
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