Collections - Postcards
Sergeant John Miles Read, number 242320, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
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Sergeant Read of the 1st/5th Battalion of the King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment sent postcards home to his future wife, Edith
Martindale, of Graham Street, Penrith. Almost all the postcards
contain no message, just simply a name and address and often a field
post mark and censor's mark.
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Edith Martindale, Feb 1897, to whom all the postcards sent by
Sergeant J M Read of 1/5 KORLR were sent - to her address at 135 Graham
Street, Penrith.
Accession Number: KO2428/001
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Souvenir Card of the 1/5th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Named to Sergeant John Miles Read, number 242320, of the 1st/5th King’s
Own.
Accession Number: KO2428/002
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Pre-war postcard postmarked 25 Nov 1905 Ashbourne
Accession Number: KO2428/003
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Pre-war postcard postmarked 23 Nov 1905 Ashbourne
Accession Number: KO2428/004
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Red Cross association Lowther Park, Staveley Section
Accession Number: KO2428/005
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Sergeant J M Read 5 KORLR photo taken when a Corporal - photographic
Studio in Carlisle.
Accession Number: KO2428/006
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Group of five KO soldiers, rear marked ‘Guard Room’ West 2
Accession Number: KO2428/007
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Civilian group - ‘and with best wishes to all concerned....for ‘many
happy returns of the day’
Accession Number: KO2428/008
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Civilian group - ‘In memory of a pleasant excursion, Whit Monday 1905’
Accession Number: KO2428/009
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Two ladies - postmarked 23 Jan 1905
Accession Number: KO2428/010
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Three ladies ‘Portraits of Celebrities’ ‘the Three Graces!’
Accession Number: KO2428/011
‘Grave’ for the 2/1st Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry. Formed in
1914, by about Jul 1915 in newly formed Western Mounted Brigade. by Apr
1916 in area of Cupar Fife, Brigade became the 21st Mounted Brigade. Jul
1916 became Cyclist Unit in 14th Cyclist Bde, still at Cupar, and there
until the end of 1917. The mock up of a tomb-stone states ‘to take our
horses and give us bicycles.’
Accession Number: KO2428/012
‘A Gallant Regiment - A short Story of the King’s Own’ Reprinted from
the Lancaster Observer 14 Aug 1914.
Accession Number: KO2428/013
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Ypres Place Vandenpeerboom - dated 23 May 1917 from ‘Donald’ of 1/5th
South Lancashire Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2428/014
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Setques - dated 9 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/015
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St Omer - Church - dated 15 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/016
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Lumbres - Vue Panoramique
Accession Number: KO2428/017
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St Omer - Un coin de la Grande Place - 18 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/018
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St Omer - L’Hotel de Ville - 19 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/019
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St Omer - Jardin Public - 20 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/020
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Calais - Rue Royale - 13 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/021
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Calais - Le Theatre - 14 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/022
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Tournehem - Le Vielle Porte - 11 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/023
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Calais - Panorama vers Notre-Dame - 14 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/024
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Calais - Le Musee et la rue Royals - 16 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/025
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Calais - Vers les Jetees - 19 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/026
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Tournehem - Le Moulin - 22 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/027
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Calais - Le Theatre - 23 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/028
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Calais - Pont Richelieu - 24 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/029
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Calais - Le Rue de la Citadelle - 26 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/030
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Calais - Place du Theatre - 28 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/031
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Calais - Monument eleve a la Memoire du Sumbersible Pluviose 1 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/032
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Calais - La Gare Maritime - 3 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/033
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Calais - Le Steamer ‘Le Nord’ 4 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/034
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Calais - Le Musee et la Rue Royle - 4 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/035
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Calais - Le Musee et la Rue Royle - 4 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/036
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Calais - La Poste - 5 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/037
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Calais - La Gare -7 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/038
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Calais - Le Marche - 9 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/039
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Calais - Le Jardin Richelieu - 10 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/040
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Calais - La Rue Royale - 11 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/041
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Calais - Le Boulevard Jacquard - 12 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/042
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Tournehem - Vue Panoramique - 12 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/043
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Calais - Les Ecluses - 15 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/044
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Calais - Le Boulevard Jacquard - 17 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/045
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Calais - Le Pont Richelieu - 19 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/046
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Calais - Le Boulevard Maritime -20 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/047
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Calais - Le Tramway electrique - 24 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/048
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Calais - Le Pont Richelieu - 27 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/049
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Calais - La Place d’Armes - 27 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/050
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Calais - La Gare Maritime - 27 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/051
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Cathedrale d’Amiens - 1 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/052
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Amiens - Place Rene Goblet - 1 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/053
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Amiens - Catnedrale - 2 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/054
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Amiens - Cathedrale - 3 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/055
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Amiens - La Prefecture - 4 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/056
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Amiens - L’Hotel des Postes - 5 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/057
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Amiens - L’Hotel de Ville - 5 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/058
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Amiens - Le Palais de Justice - 7 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/059
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Amiens - Place et Jardin St Denis - 8 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/060
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