King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

First World War

Album: 1st/5th King's Own, Home, France and Belgium, 1914-1916, from the collection of the Major W Fawcett.  Page Three

Some of these images appear in the First World War Gallery.

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Captain Milnes (all dressed up) and Major Fawcett.  Early 1916.
Accession Number KO0784/090

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1916 Dugout at Bretencourt, early 1916
Accession Number: KO0784/091

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1916 Sunken Road at Bellacourt, early 1916
Accession Number: KO0784/092

Headquarter Dugout at 'Sunken Road', winter 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/093

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Sunken Road
Accession Number: KO0784/094

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Sunken Road, German Trenches on extreme right
Accession Number: KO0784/095

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Sunken Road
Accession Number: KO0784/096

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Sautiens Trench looking towards Blairville
Accession Number: KO0784/097

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Lieutenant Holmes
Accession Number: KO0784/098

1st/5th Battalion, King's Own, at La Clyttle, 1915, including Private Omar Steel, sat up in the second row, first from the right. 
Accession Numbers: KO0784/099, KO1336/01 & KO1463/01

Details of soldiers in the photograph from rear of KO0784/099

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Captain Deighton Medical Officer
Accession Number: KO0784/100

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Captain Eaves and Fawcett in Kemmel Trenches in dugout 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/101

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Officers in Kemmel Trenches in dugout
Accession Number: KO0784/102

Captain Eaves and Captain Fawcett enjoy some 'time off' in the trenches near Kemmel, 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/103

Firing rifle grenades, 1915.  1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/104 

Captain Fawcett at 'Dead Cow Corner' via Gellia Trench, 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/105

Sergeant Gill, from Morecambe, in the trenches near Gellia Communication Trench, 1915.  1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO0784/106

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Trench hairdressing,
Accession Number: KO0784/107

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Trench hairdressing,
Accession Number: KO0784/108

Three 1st/5th Battalion soldiers with some variation of headwear!
Accession Number KO0784/109

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Captain Fawcett Basking
Accession Number: KO0784/110

Trying to mend telephone wires, Loos September 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/111

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Loos after the bombardment, Sep 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/112

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Looking through the German wire entanglement, Loos, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/113

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Interior of a trench taken over from the Germans, Loos, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/114

Left to right, Captain Owtram, Lieutenant Gilchrist, Captain Briggs and Lieutenant E R Simpson, at Loos, 1915.
Accession Number KO0784/115

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Four officers in trench Loos 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/116

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Three officers in trench Loos 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/117

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 The Trench Cook with a hopeful visitor, Loos 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/118

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 2nd Lieutenant Rome and Lieutenant Lloyd Evans in Trench at Loos, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/119

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Lieutenant Milnes in trench, 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/120

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Graves in no mans land Loos 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/121

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Looking back from Hohenzolleren Loos 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/122

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Group of officers, Loos 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/123

Private Carr, Private Thompson and Sergeant Clowes in the trenches at Loos, 1915.  'A Happy house in the trenches, Loos, Winter 1915' is the handwritten caption written on the rear of the photograph.
Accession Number: KO0784/124

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Captain Fawcett and a horse called Freda, Loos 1915
Accession Number: KO0784/125

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Transport lines?
Accession Number: KO0784/126

Transport lines of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1915.
Accession Number: KO0784/126a

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Rear of HQ Chateau, Fresney
Accession Number: KO0784/127

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Fresney Church
Accession Number: KO0784/128

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Le Preal Canal Near La Bassee
Accession Number: KO0784/129

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Le Preal Village and Canal
Accession Number: KO0784/130

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Le Preal Canal
Accession Number: KO0784/131

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Colonel Eaves and Lieutenant Callett bathing in the Le Preal Canal
Accession Number: KO0784/132

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Colonel Eaves swimming in Le Preal Canal
Accession Number: KO0784/133

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 HQ Billets Le Preal
Accession Number: KO0784/134

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Snowy scene Bretencourt Quarry
Accession Number: KO0784/135

Photograph: 1st/5th King’s Own, 1915 Major Fawcett and Captain Milnes
Accession Number: KO0784/136

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