King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Colour Sergeant John Preston

The museum's collection contains a number of items relating to Colour Sergeant John Preston who served with the Volunteers and later 4th Battalion of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  He served from 1897 to 1917.

Colour Sergeant John T Preston of G (Dalton in Furness) Company 1st Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Accession Number: KO2690/01

Colour Sergeant John T Preston of G (Dalton in Furness) Company 1st Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Accession Number: KO2690/02

Volunteer Battalion of the King’s Own Royal Lancaser Regiment on parade at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, circa 1900s.
Accession Number: KO2690/03

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

Members of the 4th Battalion at Denbigh Camp, 1913.  Seated on
the left is Colour Sergeant John Preston.
Accession Number: KO2690/05

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

'G' Company, 4th Battalion at Denbigh Camp, 1913.
Accession Number: KO2690/07

Members of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Colour Sergeant John T Preston, standing 2nd left.
Accession Number: KO2690/08

Warrant Officers and Sergeants of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own at Kirkham Camp, 1912.
Accession Number: KO2690/09

Group of G Company 1st Volunteer Battalion King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Fleetwood, 1906
Accession Number: KO2690/10

4th Battalion at Kirkham Camp, Lancashire, 1912.  Seated third from
the left is Colour Sergeant John T Preston.  The postcard was
postmarked 'Preston' 15th August 1912.
Accession Number: KO2690/11

"4th Battalion, King's Own Resting after 48 Hours March, Hornby
Camp" states the caption.  Written on the rear of the original is
"the 48 should be 24 though, it's a mistake".  Note the rifles "piled"
around the central support of the tent.
Accession Number: KO2690/12

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

4th Battalion troops detraining at Trefnant Station for annual camp
at Caerwys.  The postcard is post marked 'Chester' and dated 13th August 1909.
Accession Number: KO2690/14

"...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

Group of six (one officer and five Sergeants) of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, postmarked Appleby 5 Aug 1907
Accession Number: KO2690/16

Members of the 4th Battalion at Denbigh Camp, 1913.  Seated on
the left is Colour Sergeant John Preston.
Accession Number: KO2690/17

Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess (in tent) of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, postmarked 5 Mar 1906, Dalton in Furness.
Accession Number: KO2690/18