Soldiers of the Regiment
Private
George Mason
Collection of material relating to Private George Mason, number
241638, of the 1st/5th King’s Own was recorded in Battalion Orders of
7th August 1917 for Personal Courage and Devotion to duty between 31st
July 1917 and 2nd August 1917. He was taken prisoner of war
in 1918, and is shown as repatriated in late 1918.
Group of soldiers of probably the 2nd/5th Battalion, King’s Own, outside
their lodging house in Blackpool, circa 1914/15.
Accession Number: KO2761/01
Private James Sturzaker, of Brookside, Scotforth, Lancaster, friend of
Private
George Mason.
Accession Number: KO2761/02
Private Syd Hodgson, 2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2761/03
Group of soldiers of the 2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment at Blackpool circa 1914/15. Private George Drinkall Mason
is fourth from the left in the front row.
Accession Number: KO2761/04
Autographed photograph ‘C. Leonard Nettleton, September 1915’
Accession Number: KO2761/05
Corporal Billy Woods, number 241495, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, studio portrait photograph, with backdrop of ruins
of Ypres to the rear. Corporal Woods finished the war as a
sergeant.
Accession Number: KO2761/06
Private Arthur Parkinson (possibly number 241635) of the 2nd/5th and later
1st/5th Battalions, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Of 79 Chapel
View, Wray, photo by J P Bamber, Blackpool, circa 1914/5.
Accession Number: KO2761/07
Private Robert Dean Townson, number 241634, 1st/5th Battalion, King's
Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. O Malvern House, Wray, photo by J P Bamber, Blackpool, circa 1914/5.
Accession Number: KO2761/08
Prisoner of War card postmarked 12th September 1918 and addressed to Mrs G
Mason (wife), Scotforth, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO2761/09
Prisoner of War card postmarked 12th September 1918 and addressed to Mrs
G Mason (wife), Scotforth, Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO2761/10
News cutting relating to Private George Mason, wounded.
“A field card received by Mr and Mrs John Mason, of 50 Addlecroft,
Scotforth Road, Lancaster, announces that their fifth son, Private
George Mason, King’s Own, has been wounded and admitted to hospital.
Mason is an old boy of Scotforth School, and had for eight years been
assistant to Messrs W S Low and Co., oil and colour merchants, Church
Street, when he enlisted in November last. He was been at the front
since March. On Wednesday official news was received that Mason was
wounded, together with an intimation that his belongings would be sent
home. Nothing has been heard of as to his whereabouts.”
Accession Number: KO2761/15
Digital copies of pages from diary of Private George Mason.
Accession Number: KO2761/16-26
Prisoner of War group, circa 1918. Private George Drinkall mason is
4th from the right in the rear row.
Accession Number: KO2761/27
Enlargement of the only King's Own soldier in the group of prisoner of
war, likely to be Private George Mason.
Accession Number: KO2761/27a
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