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2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank

2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Killed in action 26 Aug 1914 (Haucourt, Battle of Le Cateau)  Commemorated: Buried in Naves Communal Cemetery Extension, France

1914 Star to 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank, 1st King’s Own
Accession Number: KO1237/01
British War Medal to 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank, 1st King’s Own
Accession Number: KO1237/02
Allied Victory Medal to 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank, 1st King’s Own
Accession Number: KO1237/03

2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank, (spelt incorrectly on the plaque) 1st King’s Own.  Killed in action 26th August 1914.
Accession Number: KO1237/04

Envelope for telegram, addressed to G H Brockelbank, Elm Lodge, dated 3 Dec 1914
Accession Number: KO1237/05

Telegram from Buckingham Palace, dated 3 Dec 1914 to G S Brockelbank, Elm Lodge, Blackheath. The King and Queen deeply regret the loss you and the Army have sustained by the reported death of your son in the service of his country. Their Majesties truly sympathise with you in your sorrow. Private Secretary. Page one of two.
Accession Number: KO1237/05 i

Telegram from Buckingham Palace, dated 3 Dec 1914 to G S Brockelbank, Elm Lodge, Blackheath. The King and Queen deeply regret the loss you and the Army have sustained by the reported death of your son in the service of his country. Their Majesties truly sympathise with you in your sorrow. Private Secretary. Page two of two.
Accession Number: KO1237/05 ii

Banner of the King’s Own Regiment, used at the Choral Commemorations of the ….. Divisions at the Albert Hall on 15 Dec 197. With Lieutenant Colonel Thomas’s compliments, Lancaster 21 Feb 1918.
Photo by Herbert, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO1237/06

Field Service Postcard, 23 Aug 1914
Accession Number: KO1237/07

Letter from Lance Corporal Graham to Mr G S Brockelbank re the death of his son, 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank, 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Lance Corporal C Graham, number 4424, 3rd and 1st Battalions, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
At Fulwell, Sunderland on 4 Dec 1914. Overseas 19 Jan 1915 to joined 1st King’s Own. Killed in action 2 May 1915. Son of Robert Graham of 24 Blackheath Vale, London. Husband of Mrs C Graham, of 8 Lampmead Road, London. Also served in the South African Campaign. Age 39. Commemorated on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.
Also makes reference to Lance Corporal George Frederick Henry Copperwaite (or wrongly Copperthwaite), who was with 1st, 2nd and 6th King’s Own, number 10761. Overseas 23 Aug 1914. Killed in action with 6th King’s Own on 9 Feb 1917. Age 22. Son of Henry George and Annie Amelia Copperwaite, 25 Carlyle Avenue, Harlesden, London.
Accession Number: KO1237/08

Letter from Lance Corporal Graham, 4424, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, to Mr G Brockelbank re the death of his son, 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank, 15 Feb 1915
Accession Number: KO1237/09

Letter from Lance Corporal Graham, 4424, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, to Mr G Brockelbank re the death of his son, 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank, 19 Apr 1915
Accession Number: KO1237/10a

Envelope address to Mr S Brockelbank, Elm Lodge, The Glebe, Lee Terrace, Kent, postmarked Field Post Office 12 – 20 Apr 1915. Passed by Censor, no 392
Accession Number: KO1237/10b

Letter from Lieutenant Douglas C Robinson, South Infirmary, Cork, Ireland, to Mr Brockelbank re the death of his son, 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank, 1 Nov 1914
Accession Number: KO1237/11

Letter to Mr Brockelbank from Mrs Rosamund Dykes re the death of 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank
Accession Number: KO1237/12

Letter to Mr Brockelbank from Mrs Rosamund Dykes re the death of 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank 27 Nov 1914 one of two
Accession Number: KO1237/13 i

Letter to Mr Brockelbank from Mrs Rosamund Dykes re the death of 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank 27 Nov 1914 two of two
Accession Number: KO1237/13 ii

Letter from A R C Irvine, Drumgoon Manor, Maguires Bridge, Ireland, re the death of Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank dated 22 Nov 1914
Accession Number: KO1237/14

Letter from A R C Irvine, Drumgoon Manor, Maguires Bridge, Ireland, re the death of Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank dated 26 Feb 1915
Accession Number: KO1237/15

Letter from Reverent Gavin McFadyean, at Saltash, to Arthur regarding 2nd Lieutenant L S Brockelbank of 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1237/16

Extract from The Times of 30 Mar 1915 re the announcement of the rank of 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank of the 3rd Militia Battalion of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Mounted on a piece of letter head of the firm of Kitching, Brockelbank & Co, 10 & 11 Austin Friars, and Stock Exchange, London.
Showing the name of G S Brockelbank.
Accession Number: KO1237/17

Letter from Colonel W H Duffin regardind the death of 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank, 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, dated 15 Jul 1915
Accession Number: KO1237/18

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Graham commanding 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, re Lieutenant L S Brockelbank, dated 7 Jul 1915
Accession Number: KO1237/19

Letter from Colonel Eyre, Army Pay Office, Preston, to Mr G S Brockelbank, the father of Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank, 17 Apr 1915
Accession Number: KO1237/20

Letter from Colonel Eyre, Army Pay Office, Preston, to Mr G S Brockelbank, the father of Lieutenant Lawrence S Brockelbank, 28 Apr 1915
Accession Number: KO1237/21

Effects Form 45 Letter from the War Office letter to G S Brockelbank, Elm Lodge, Blackheath, London SE. Dated 17 Jan 1916, about the amount due from Army Funds to the estate of the late 2nd Lieutenant L S Brockelbank, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1237/22

Typescript: Correspondence Received as to the fate of 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank, Aged 21, 3rd and 1st Battalions, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1237/23

Army Form B 2076 Record of Service and Qualifications of a Cadet Officers Training Corps. Record of Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank, to be commissioned into the 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 20 May 1914.
Accession Number: KO1237/24

War Office letter, dated 6 Feb 1919, to G L Brockelbank, Elm Lodge, The Glebe, Blackheath, London, concerning the 1914 Star for 2nd Lieutenant L S Brockelbank, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1237/25

War Office letter, dated 1 Nov 1920, to G L Brockelbank, Elm Lodge, The Glebe, Blackheath, London, concerning the British War and Allied Victory Medals for 2nd Lieutenant L S Brockelbank, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1237/26
 

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