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.

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

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

Pre-war postcard postmarked 25 Nov 1905 Ashbourne
Accession Number: KO2428/003

Pre-war postcard postmarked 23 Nov 1905 Ashbourne
Accession Number: KO2428/004

Red Cross association Lowther Park, Staveley Section
Accession Number: KO2428/005

Sergeant J M Read 5 KORLR photo taken when a Corporal - photographic
Studio in Carlisle.
Accession Number: KO2428/006

Group of five KO soldiers, rear marked ‘Guard Room’ West 2
Accession Number: KO2428/007

Civilian group - ‘and with best wishes to all concerned....for ‘many
happy returns of the day’
Accession Number: KO2428/008

Civilian group - ‘In memory of a pleasant excursion, Whit Monday 1905’
Accession Number: KO2428/009

Two ladies - postmarked 23 Jan 1905
Accession Number: KO2428/010

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

Ypres Place Vandenpeerboom - dated 23 May 1917 from ‘Donald’ of 1/5th
South Lancashire Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2428/014

Setques - dated 9 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/015

St Omer - Church - dated 15 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/016

Lumbres - Vue Panoramique
Accession Number: KO2428/017

St Omer - Un coin de la Grande Place - 18 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/018

St Omer - L’Hotel de Ville - 19 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/019

St Omer - Jardin Public - 20 Jul 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/020

Calais - Rue Royale - 13 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/021

Calais - Le Theatre - 14 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/022

Tournehem - Le Vielle Porte - 11 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/023

Calais - Panorama vers Notre-Dame - 14 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/024

Calais - Le Musee et la rue Royals - 16 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/025

Calais - Vers les Jetees - 19 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/026

Tournehem - Le Moulin - 22 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/027

Calais - Le Theatre - 23 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/028

Calais - Pont Richelieu - 24 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/029

Calais - Le Rue de la Citadelle - 26 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/030

Calais - Place du Theatre - 28 Aug 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/031

Calais - Monument eleve a la Memoire du Sumbersible Pluviose 1 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/032

Calais - La Gare Maritime - 3 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/033

Calais - Le Steamer ‘Le Nord’ 4 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/034

Calais - Le Musee et la Rue Royle - 4 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/035

Calais - Le Musee et la Rue Royle - 4 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/036

Calais - La Poste - 5 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/037

Calais - La Gare -7 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/038

Calais - Le Marche - 9 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/039

Calais - Le Jardin Richelieu - 10 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/040

Calais - La Rue Royale - 11 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/041

Calais - Le Boulevard Jacquard - 12 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/042

Tournehem - Vue Panoramique - 12 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/043

Calais - Les Ecluses - 15 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/044

Calais - Le Boulevard Jacquard - 17 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/045

Calais - Le Pont Richelieu - 19 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/046

Calais - Le Boulevard Maritime -20 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/047

Calais - Le Tramway electrique - 24 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/048

Calais - Le Pont Richelieu - 27 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/049

Calais - La Place d’Armes - 27 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/050

Calais - La Gare Maritime - 27 Sep 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/051

Cathedrale d’Amiens - 1 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/052

Amiens - Place Rene Goblet - 1 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/053

Amiens - Catnedrale - 2 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/054

Amiens - Cathedrale - 3 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/055

Amiens - La Prefecture - 4 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/056

Amiens - L’Hotel des Postes - 5 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/057

Amiens - L’Hotel de Ville - 5 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/058

Amiens - Le Palais de Justice - 7 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/059

Amiens - Place et Jardin St Denis - 8 Oct 1917
Accession Number: KO2428/060
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