Collections - Photographs
Collection of Charles Henry Evans, King's Own Royal
Regiment, 1919-1940
Charles Henry Evans, number 3702648, born 19 November 1899 and served
with the King’s Own Royal Regiment during the First World War and with
the 2nd Battalion afterwards. He rose to the rank of Regimental
Sergeant Major with 4th Battalion, and remained RSM on their conversion
to 56th Anti-Tank Regiment, just prior to the Second World War. He
was commissioned as Quartermaster and died on 8th February 1940.
Review of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division by the King
of the Belgians, Brussels, 3 Jan 1919.
Accession Number: KO2812/01
Football team of the 2nd Battalion, including Charles
Henry Evans, Burma, 1920
Accession Number: KO2812/02
D Company Football Team of the 2nd Battalion, King’s Own
in Burma, 1921. Including Charles Henry Evans.
Accession Number: KO2812/03
Funeral of Band Boy J Griffiths, number 3704202, 2nd
Battalion King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster. Died 20 Apr 1923,
age 15, buried Rangoon, 22 Apr 1923. See ko2590/323 for a picture of
his grave.
Accession Number: KO2812/04
Funeral of Band Boy J Griffiths, number 3704202, 2nd Battalion
King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster. Died 20 Apr 1923, age 15, buried
Rangoon, 22 Apr 1923.
Accession Number: KO2812/05
St. George’s Day Parade, Wellington Barracks, India,
circa late 1930s, 1st Battalion, King’s Own.
Accession Number: KO2812/06
St. George’s Day Parade, Wellington, Barracks, India,
circa late 1930s, 1st Battalion, King’s Own.
Accession Number: KO2812/07
2nd Battalion on parade, India, late 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/08
2nd Battalion on parade, India, late 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/09
2nd Battalion on parade, India, late 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/10
2nd Battalion on parade, India, late 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/11
2nd Battalion on parade, India, late 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/12
Four sergeants of the 2nd King’s Own, India, 1920s, with
tropical dress and medals worn for parade etc.
Accession Number: KO2812/13
Poor photograph of tents at camp, India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/14
Soldier on guard next to 2nd Battalion’s Colours,
Sebastopol Day, Burma or India 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/15
Two soldiers on guard next to 2nd Battalion’s Colours,
Sebastopol Day, Burma or India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/16
2nd Battalion Sergeants Mess picnic? India or Burma,
1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/17
2nd Battalion Sergeants Mess picnic? India or Burma,
1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/18
2nd Battalion, King’s Own, two soldiers outside tent with
dogs, Burma or India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/19
Unknown soldier of the 2nd Battalion King’s Own, Burma or
India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/20
Group of 2nd Battalion soldiers, Burma or India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/21
2nd Battalion Sergeants Mess picnic? India or Burma,
1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/22
2nd Battalion, Burma or India, showing military vehicles
at camp, and area designated for ‘Mounted Troops’ and ‘Infantry’
Accession Number: KO2812/23
2nd Battalion Band, outside, Burma or India, 1920s
Accession Number: KO2812/24
Un-identified brick buildings, 2nd Battalion, Burma or
India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/25
Soldier group, outside, 2nd King’s Own, Burma or India,
1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/26
Tents, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own, Burma or India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/27
Four soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, King’s Own, Burma or
India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/28
Group of soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, King’s Own, in
Burma or India, 1920s
Accession Number: KO2812/29
Playing field at Atbara, 1930, 2nd Battalion King’s Own.
Accession Number: KO2812/30
2nd Battalion King’s Own Rugby match, 1920s/30s.
Accession Number: KO2812/31
2nd Battalion King’s Own Rugby match, 1920s/30s.
Accession Number: KO2812/32
2nd Battalion King’s Own Rugby match, 1920s/30s.
Accession Number: KO2812/33
2nd Battalion King’s Own Rugby match, 1920s/30s.
Accession Number: KO2812/34
2nd Battalion King’s Own Rugby match, 1920s/30s.
Accession Number: KO2812/35
2nd Battalion King’s Own Rugby match, 1920s/30s.
Accession
Number: KO2812/36
2nd Battalion tents at camp, India 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/37
2nd Battalion King’s Own, rugby match in India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/38
2nd Battalion King’s Own, rugby match in India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/39
Charles Henry Evans, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own, sat next
to waterfall, India 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/40
‘Self’ about to go out for the morning. 1st Battalion,
King’s Own, Madras, late 1930s.
Accession Number: KO2812/41
‘Orderly Room across the parade ground’ Fort St. George,
Madras, India, 1st Battalion, King’s Own. 1938
Accession Number: KO2812/42
‘Outside Madras Harbour, 1938 self at the helm’ 1st
Battalion, King’s Own 1938.
Accession Number: KO2812/43
Waterfalls at Ani-sakan, Burma early 1920s. 2nd
Battalion, King’s Own.
Accession Number: KO2812/44
Pagodo at Mandalay, Burma, 2nd King’s Own. ‘Rocking stone
when the wind blows it rocks.’ Early 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/45
Kachin women, Burma, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own, early
1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/46
Steam train on railway bridge, 2nd Battalion King’s Own
in Burma or India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/47
Natives with dog, Burma or India, 1920s. With unusual
piles of bricks along the road side.
Accession Number: KO2812/48
Dog, Burma or India, 1920s. With unusual piles of bricks
along the road side.
Accession Number: KO2812/49
Ships in the Suez Canal, circa 1930s.
Accession Number: KO2812/50
Camel train, India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/51
Pagoda in Burma, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own, marked ‘9 Oct
1920 from Charlie’
Accession Number: KO2812/52
‘Hindu woman carrying infant’ 2nd King’s Own in Burma or
India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/53
Native river craft, 2nd King’s Own in Burma or India,
1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/54
Sailing ships at sea, Atbara, 1930, 2nd Battalion, King’s
Own.
Accession Number: KO2812/55
‘Hindu women washing clothes at the well’ 2nd King’s Own
in India, 1920s
Accession Number: KO2812/56
‘View showing flat roof of Hindu huts, North West
Frontier’ 2nd Battalion, King’s Own , 1920s, probably Rawalpindi.
Accession Number: KO2812/57
Native River Craft, India, circa 1920s
Accession Number: KO2812/58
Poor photograph of Indian settlement, circa 1920s
Accession Number: KO2812/59
Hills and building in India, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/60
Indian garden of house, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/61
Indian river, circa 1920s, with buildings on the banks.
Accession Number: KO2812/62
Mules at rest with their carts, India, circa 1920s
Accession Number: KO2812/63
Waterfront buildings, India, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/64
River and river bank view, India, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/65
View of river, from boat, showing native craft, India,
1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/66
View of defensive walls of un-identified fort, India,
1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/67
Group of native travellers on road, India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/68
View of Indian countryside, India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/69
View of dried up river bed under stone arched bridge,
India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/70
View of cliffs and waterfall, India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/71
Poor photograph, view of Indian building, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/72
Poor photograph, view of Indian building, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/73
View of cliffs and waterfall, India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/74
View of road, India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/75
View of valley, India, 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/76
View of Native huts, probably ‘North West Frontier’
India, Rawalpindi, 2nd King’s Own, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/77
View of landscape, probably ‘North West Frontier’ India, Rawalpindi, 2nd King’s Own, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/78
View of road, within a town, India, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/79
View of clouds and sky, India, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/80
View of trees, India, circa 1920s
Accession Number: KO2812/81
View of waterfall, India, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/82
View of road and monument, India, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/83
View of road in Indian village, with soldiers in the
middle of the street, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own, India, circa 1920s.
Accession Number: KO2812/84
Frith’s postcard of South Camp, Trawsfynydd, likely to
have been a camp used by the 4th Battalion or 56th Anti-Tank
Regiment RA (The King’s Own)
Accession Number: KO2812/85
Photo: Various Non-Commissioned Officers of various regiments,
at Aldershot in 1935 or 1937 for either the Silver Jubilee or
Coronation. Including Charles Henry Evans.
Accession Number: KO2812/86
Photo: Charles Henry Evans with another, unknown, soldier of the
King’s Own in blues. 1930s?
Accession Number: KO2812/87
Photo: George (Jerry) Heaysman, Africa 1943, photographed in
tropical clothing alongside car. Heaysman was a contemporary of
Charles Henry Evans, and was RSM of the 5th King’s Own when Evans
was RSM of the 4th King’s Own, later 56th Anti-Tank Regiment
Accession Number: KO2812/88
Photo: George (Jerry) Heaysman and his son, Evan, on board a
boat, circa 1930s.
Accession Number: KO2812/89
2nd Battalion King’s Own Christmas Card from 1930, signed ‘Micky’.
Accession Number: KO2812/90
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