King's Own Royal Regiment Museum

The National Service Years 1945-59

Kenya & Aden 1958-1959

Private Donald Bowness, 1st Battalion, King's Own

Group ‘San Sebastian’ platoon, passing out parade photograph, Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, 1958. Private Donald Bowness is seated third from the right.
Accession Number: KO2911/01

Private Donald Bowness, number 23579266, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment ready for the parade at Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, 1959.
Accession Number: KO2911/02

Members of B Company, 1st King’s Own, Kenya 1958, after fighting a bush fire.
Accession Number: KO2911/03

Three soldiers of the 1st King’s Own outside a tent in Kenya, 1958/59, Gil Gil Camp.
Accession Number: KO2911/04

Private Donald Bowness, number 23579266, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment sat at the road side during a trip to Uganda from Kenya, 1958/59.
Accession Number: KO2911/05

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own, with a ‘whip snake’ at Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, circa 1958.
Accession Number: KO2911/06

Private Donald Bowness and others of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya, 1958/59. Four outside the Kibo Hotel
Accession Number: KO2911/07

Private Donald Bowness and others of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya, 1958/59. Four outside the first Hut.
Accession Number: KO2911/08

Private Donald Bowness and others of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya, 1958/59. Two soldiers outside the second hut, Mount Howensi in the background.
Accession Number: KO2911/09

Private Donald Bowness and others of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya, 1958/59. View of Mount Kilimanjaro
Accession Number: KO2911/10

Steamer Point, Aden.
Accession Number: KO2911/11

Rhinoceros with Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya, in the background.
Accession Number: KO2911/12

HMT Dunera
Accession Number: KO2911/13