King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

Collection of Sir Thomas Harley, who served with the 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in Salonika/Macedonia in World War One. - Page One

Some of the the photographs listed can also be seen in the 9th Battalion, First World War Photo Gallery pages:

KO1853/001 - KO1853/061

Officers and Non-commissioned Officers of C Company, 9th Battalion, at Aldershot, August 1915.  Front row, left to right, unknown sergeant, unknown sergeant, Company Sergeant Major Ellidge, Lieutenant Cowley, unknown captain, Captain Durst, Lieutenant Eden, 2nd Lieutenant T W Harley, 2nd Lieutenant Whitehead, Quartermaster Sergeant Quinn and unknown sergeant.
Accession Number: KO1853/007

Officers of C Company, 9th Battalion.  Left to right standing, 2nd Lieutenant G H Moberly and 2nd Lieutenant D C G Stileman.  Seated left to right, 2nd Lieutenant T W Harley, Captain W H Durst, Major A V Cowley and Lieutenant T Eden.
Accession Number: KO1853/08

Photograph: Lieutenant Eric Bardsley, 8th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1914.
Accession Number: KO1853/009

Photograph: Raiding party and officers in support of 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Popovo, Christmas 1916. Raiding party on Brest.
Left to right: Captain Whitehead; Medical Officer Doiran; Captain T H Stileman; Lieutenant Whittall; Lieutenant R Bethune; Colonel W B Maloney (barely visible); Lieutenant Honey; Lieutenant Downing, Lieutenant W H Smellie; Captain T W Harley Officer Commanding Raid, at Popovo Church, 26 Dec 1916.
Accession Number: KO1853/010

Photograph:  C Company, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, In the Line, Mamelon Trench, Doiran Front May 1917. Men had to rest and sleep on elevated boards because of the lack of space and absence of dugouts.
Accession Number: KO1853/011

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Officer
Accession Number: KO1853/012

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Woman, unknown
Accession Number: KO1853/013

Photograph: Captain T W Harley, Company Sergeant Major Potter, Quartermaster Sergeant Hack, Spring 1917 D Company 9th Battalion, King’s Own
Accession Number: KO1853/014

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Watering the Mules of Transport Section 9th Battalion KO Macedonia, 1917
Accession Number: KO1853/015

Captain Thomas Harley MC, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Portrait photograph by Jason Bacon & Dons, 17-19 Basnett Street, Liverpool.
Accession Number: KO1853/016

Captain Tom Harley, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in Salonika, at Saida Camp, near Doiran, 1917
Accession Number: KO1853/017

Lieutenant Tom Harley, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and Lieutenant Stapleton, 9th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, machine gun officer. Aldershot, August 1915
Accession Number: KO1853/018

Photograph: Unknown.
Accession Number: KO1853/019

Lieutenant Thomas Harley with Major Charles and Colonel Clermont Tonnere of the French, 17th Colonial Division. Popovo, May 1916.
Accession Number: KO1853/020

Captain Douglas Stileman, of ‘C’ Company 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Mar 1916, Outside Tent. Captain Stileman was later badly wounded. Photo taken by Tom Harley, also of C Company near to Scipol. Note our ‘comfortable’ residence!
Accession Number: KO1853/021

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Officer Group, c 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/022

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Steele, Law, Lith and Strange
Believed to be
Number 20575 Corporal Arthur Steele of the 9th Battalion
Number 13556 Private Arthur Law of 9th Battalion
No trace of the other two, Lith and Strange.
Accession Number: KO1853/023

9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Battalion Headquarters, March 1916. In the Birdcage Line. Dug into the hillside. Looking north into the Galiko River.
Accession Number: KO1853/024

Bathing at Stavros, June 1918, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Macedonia.
Accession Number: KO1853/025

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Lieutenant Tom Harley whilst on Compassionate Leave from Macedonia, February 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/026

Company Sergeant Major Stratford, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Macedonia.
Accession Number: KO1853/027

Strange, Little, Law and Steele in Trench, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1853/028

Padre Davis and local religious man, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Macedonia.
Accession Number: KO1853/029

Three officers in Salonika, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, sat outside bar: Tom Harley, Bob Bethune and Quintin Bone. 1916
Accession Number: KO1853/030

Lieutenant Thomas Harley, Captain Miller and Lieutenant Stileman in Camp
Accession Number: KO1853/031

Sugar Loaf, (Bulgarian Out post), Mar 1917, taken at close quarters from outlying British position on Mamelon (about 50 m distance between the two). With Grand Couronne dominating the background (535m). Photo taken by Captain Thomas Harley, from Hill 380
Accession Number: KO1853/032

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Early Bi-Plane
Accession Number: KO1853/033

Photo of Captain Tom Daly Cumberland's Annual Diaries, 1917-1919
Accession Number: KO1853/034

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Fishing Boats Salonika.
Accession Number: KO1853/035

Photograph: View of Salonika Town from the White Tower, circa 1915.
Accession Number: KO1853/036

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Unknown Location
Accession Number: KO1853/037

Photograph: Padre Brady, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1917
Accession Number: KO1853/038

Bulgar Prisoners, December 1916, shortly after capture in a raid on Brest, Dec 1916. All smoking – a novelty afforded to them by Captain Thomas Harley, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1853/039

Officers of the 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, photograph taken at Smol Camp close to the Greek-Serbian frontier, Christmas 1918.
Left to right at rear: Captain Rickwood MC; Colonel Jones (Temporary Commanding Officer); Major Malcolm Peake, Second in Command; Major W H Durst, MC, Commanding C Company; Captain W H Cumberland, RAMC, Medical Officer; Front row: Lieutenant Parker; Padre Davis MC; Captain Dyke (Quartermaster).
Accession Number: KO1853/040

The Quay at Dedeagatch, November 1918, landing area and coastline, shortly after coming ashore from the Naval Destroyer Transport, HMS Shark. The coastline in the background is Turkey and the Gallipoli Peninsular.
Accession Number: KO1853/041

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Group of Men, 1918
Accession Number: KO1853/042

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, at Camp c 1918
Accession Number: KO1853/043

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Scenic View
Accession Number: KO1853/044

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Scenic View Macedonia, c 1916 -1917
Accession Number: KO1853/045

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Bridge Macedonia, c 1916-1917
Accession Number: KO1853/046

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Scenic View Macedonia c 1916 - 1917
Accession Number: KO1853/047

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Various Soldiers Railway Sidings
Accession Number: KO1853/048

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Scenic View Macedonia c 1916-1919
Accession Number: KO1853/049

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Salonika-Constantinople Railway Embankment
Accession Number: KO1853/050

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Urban coastline
Accession Number: KO1853/051

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Landing stage
Accession Number: KO1853/052

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Scenic View
Accession Number: KO1853/053

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Scenic View
Accession Number: KO1853/054

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Coastline
Accession Number: KO1853/055

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Lake Ardzan Macedonia
Accession Number: KO1853/056

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Trenching
Accession Number: KO1853/057

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Town House, Macedonia
Accession Number: KO1853/058

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Railway Bridge
Accession Number: KO1853/059

Photograph: Company Sergeant Major Stratford, 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, Macedonia.
Accession Number: KO1853/060

Photograph: 9th Battalion, King’s Own, Soldier Macedonia
Accession Number: KO1853/061