ko1181/196-01

Memo from the Regimental Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own, BEF, France.  List of names in accordance with Army Order Number 83 of 1 Mar 1918.  Extract from Army Form W3274  1 of 2

ko1181/196-02

Memo from the Regimental Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own, BEF, France.  List of names in accordance with Army Order Number 83 of 1 Mar 1918.  Extract from Army Form W3274  2 of 2

ko1181/196-03

Cover note dated 24 May 1918 to OC 1st/4th King’s Own from Records Section, 3rd Echelon, GHQ, British Salonica Force.  ‘The attached memo has been forwarded here in error’

ko1181/196-04

Memo from the Regimental Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own, BEF, France.  List of names in accordance with Army Order Number 83 of 1 Mar 1918.  Extract from Army Form W3274  Dated 1 May 1918

ko1181/196-05

Memo from Office Commanding 55th Battalion Machine Gun Corps to OC 1st/4th King’s Own re Private R Patton, number 147247, re War Bonds purchased whilst a member of B Company, 1st/4th King’s Own.  Dated 9 Jun 1918.
See ko1181/028-179 and ko1181/028-180  Private R Patton, number 35343, 1st/4th King’s Own.

ko1181/196-06

Memo from the Regimental Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding D Company, 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own, BEF, France.  List of names in accordance with Army Order Number 83 of 1 Mar 1918.  Extract from Army Form W3274  Dated 11 Jun 1918

ko1181/196-07

Memo from the Regimental Paymaster, Preston to the Officer Commanding C Company, 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own, BEF, France.  List of names in accordance with Army Order Number 83 of 1 Mar 1918.  Extract from Army Form W3274  Dated 11 Jun 1918

ko1181/196-08

Letter dated 7 Jul 1918 from 2nd Lieutenant Thorpe re War Savings Scheme.

ko1181/196-09

Letter dated 10 Feb 1918 from 2nd Lieutenant Thorpe re War Savings Scheme

ko1181/196-10

Army Form W3273 Application by Soldier for Exchequer Bonds of 15/6 War Savings Certificate etc.
Duplicated on foolscap paper, not completed.

ko1181/196-11

Army Form W3273 Application by Soldier for Exchequer Bonds of 15/6 War Savings Certificate etc.
Duplicated on foolscap paper, not completed

ko1181/196-12

Routine Orders by Major General H S Jeudwine, Commanding 55th (West Lancashire) Division 18 Feb 1918.  “Lieutenant Park” written in pencil on one side.
Including Prevention of Mange, War Savings, Rum and PH Helmets.
969 Rum
Issue of Rum will, from 19th instant inclusive, be restricted to men in trenches and those entitled to Trench Rations (viz:- Gun Positions Personnel etc).  Owing to shortage the issue may be further curtailed at an early date.

ko1181/196-13

Army Form C 348 Memorandum, from Regimental Paymaster, Preston to Officer Commanding 1st/4th King’s Own dated 17 Jun1918 re War Savings Certificates

ko1181/196-14

Note to 2nd Lieutenant A J Thorpe, 1st/4th King’s Own, Imprest Holder, to Regimental Paymaster, Preston, re War Savings Certificates

ko1181/196-15

Documents relating to the War Savings Scheme
Letter from Private Walter Nixon, number 11903, B Company, 1st/4th King’s Own re War Savings Certificates.
Private Walter Nixon is recorded as having served with the 9th, 1st/4th and 2nd/5th King’s Own on the War and Victory Medal rolls.

ko1181/196-16

Letter to Comptroller and Accountant General, General Post Office, dated 11 Jun 1918 re War Savings Campaign.

ko1181/196-17

Letter to Major R Gardner, 1st/4th King’s Own dated 5 Jul 1918 from General Post Office re War Savings Certificates.

ko1181/196-18

Letter from Lieutenant Park, 1st/4th King’s Own, dated 5 Feb 1918, to Comptroller and Accountant General, General Post Office, re Army Forms W3273 for men of the King’s Own, War Savings Certificates.  With acknowledgement on the rear dated 9 Feb 1918.

ko1181/196-19

Examples of Investment in War Savings Certificates after 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years.

ko1181/196-20

Letter from Major Gardner, Commanding, 1st/4th King’s Own dated 26 Nov 1918, to Comptroller and Accountant General, General Post Office, re Army Form W 3273 for Sergeant A G Holmes, number 202167, formerly of the 1st/4th King’s Own.

ko1181/196-21

Letter from Cox & Co dated 12 Jun 1918 to Lieutenant A J Thorpe, 1st/4th King’s Own, re War Savings Certificates in the names of N Smith and A Thomson.

ko1181/196-22

Letter from Cox & Co dated 20 Jun 1918 to Lieutenant A J Thorpe, 1st/4th King’s Own, re War Savings Certificates for Private John Catlow, Private Benjamin Greenhalgh and Company Sergeant Major Richard Walker.

ko1181/196-23

Letter from Cox & Co dated 29 may 1918 to Lieutenant A J Thorpe, 1st/4th King’s Own, re War Savings Certificates for Private John Catlow, Private Benjamin Greenhalgh and Company Sergeant Major Richard Walker.

ko1181/196-24

List of officers and men applying War Savings Certificates

ko1181/196-25

List of officers and men applying War Savings Certificates Number 7 Platoon, B Company, 1st/4th King’s Own.  Dated 3 Feb 1918.

ko1181/196-26

List of officers and men applying War Savings Certificates Number 5 Platoon, B Company, 1st/4th King’s Own.  Dated 3 Feb 1918

ko1181/196-27

List of officers and men applying War Savings Certificates Number 6 Platoon, B Company, 1st/4th King’s Own

ko1181/196-28

Letter from Cox & Co to Lieutenant A J Thorpe, dated 4 Jun 1918, re War Savings Certificates in the name of N Smith and A Thomson.

ko1181/196-29

Letter to Commanding Officer, 1st/4th King’s own, re War Savings Certificates from Private Harry Kinder, number 202350, D Company, 1st/4th King’s Own, from Number 6 Ward, Fell Lane War Hospital, Keighley, Yorkshire.
Sent on to 2nd Lieutenant Thorpe from Major Gardner, dated 29 Apr 1918.

ko1181/196-30

Letter to Commanding Officer, 1st/4th King’s Own, re War Savings Certificates from Private Arthur William Yare, number 26850, 12 Platoon, C Company, 1st/4th King’s Own, c/o Bed 46, Kitchener Ward, Red Cross Hospital, Great West Road, Gloucester.  Dated 18 May 1918.

ko1181/196-31

War Savings Certificates: “Instructions to Squadron and Company Officers When Soldiers Wish to Invest”

ko1181/196-32

Hand written copy of document showing unit return for War Savings Scheme, 1 Mar 1918

ko1181/196-33

Hand written financial workings out

ko1181/196-34

Hand written notes and names relating to Numbers 6 and 7 Platoons, 1st/4th King’s Own.

ko1181/196-35

Hand written notes and names relating to 14,15 and 16 Platoons, 1st/4th King’s Own.

ko1181/196-36

Letter dated 4 Feb 1918 from the London Joint Stock Bank Limited, re War Savings Certificates for £500 in the name of William Penrhyn Boddington Draper, dated 21 Dec 1917.