Soldiers of the Regiment
Warrant Officer Class 2 (Company Sergeant Major)
William Ralph
Warrant Officer Class 2 (Company Sergeant Major) William Ralph, number
240001, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. He
received the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal and
Silver WAr Badge. He enlisted on 1st February 1886 and was
discharged on the 28th August 1919 due to sickness.
 | Warrant Certificate, Warrant Officer Class II, William Ralph, 1/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Feb 1915. Accession
Number: KO1071/01 |
 | Photo: Colour Sergeant William Ralph, Accession Number:
KO1071/02 (see below) |
 | Photo: 5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Colour Sergeant William Ralph and platoon.
Photograph printed and published by C E May, 39 Bridge Street, Reading.
Accession Number: KO1071/03 (see
below) |
 | Colour Sergeant William Ralph and 3 other Sergeants in Oxfordshire,
1914. 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Photograph published by Tom Reeley Wantage & Abingdon on Thames.
Accession Number: KO1071/04 (See below) |
 | Colour Sergeant William Ralph and another. Accession Number:
KO1071/05 (see below) |
 | Colour Sergeant William Ralph seated and a young private soldier.
1st/ 5th King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Photograph number ‘309’ Accession Number: KO1071/06 (see below) |
 | Postcard of H M King George V visiting Lancaster 24 Aug 1912
Accession Number: KO1071/07 |


Army Form B2079 Certificate of Discharge to Company Sergeant Major
William Ralph, number 240001, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Enlisted 1 Feb 1886 and discharged 28 Aug 1919
Accession Number:
KO1071/08

Colour Sergeant William Ralph, circa 1914, 1st/5th Battalion, King's
Own.
Accession Number: KO1071/02

Colour Sergeant William Ralph and members of his Platoon, 5th Battalion,
King's Own at Didcot, September 1914.
Accession Number: KO1071/03

Colour Sergeant William Ralph and 3 other Sergeants in
Oxfordshire, 1914. 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Photograph published by Tom Reeley Wantage & Abingdon on Thames.
Accession Number: KO1071/04 (also KO0104/50)

Colour Sergeant William Ralph and another.
Accession Number: KO1071/05

Colour Sergeant William Ralph seated and a young private soldier.
1st/ 5th King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at Sevenoaks, 1914.
Accession Number: KO1071/06
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