Soldiers of the RegimentDrummer
Keith Raven

Identity Card to Drummer Keith Raven, number 23531146, 1st Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO3105/01

Depot, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Burma Platoon, 26 January 1958
Accession Number: KO3105/02

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment,
Empire Fowey, Jul 1958, en route to
Kenya.
Accession Number: KO3105/03

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment,
Empire Fowey, Jul 1958, en route to
Kenya.
Accession Number: KO3105/04

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment,
Empire Fowey, Jul 1958, en route to
Kenya.
Accession Number: KO3105/05

Dennis and Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment
Accession Number: KO3105/06

Shore Leave in Gibraltar, Jul 1958, Rido and Drummer Keith Raven, 1st
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment
Accession Number: KO3105/07

Shore Leave in Gibraltar, Jul 1958, Rido and Drummer Keith Raven, 1st
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment
Accession Number: KO3105/08

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Train at Mombassa, Kenya, Jul
1958
Accession Number: KO3105/09

Road making outside the Drum Store, Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, Dec 1948
Accession Number: KO3105/10

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, Jul 1958
Accession Number: KO3105/11

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, Jul 1958
Accession Number: KO3105/12

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, Jul 1958,
NAAFI on the left and cookhouse on the right.
Accession Number: KO3105/13

En route from Kenya to Aden, on board HMS Gambia, with HMS Bulwark, the
aircraft carrier, in the distance.
Accession Number: KO3105/14

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Aden
Accession Number: KO3105/15

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Aden
Accession Number: KO3105/16

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Aden
Accession Number: KO3105/17

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Aden, Guard Duty, 26 Aug 1958
Accession Number: KO3105/18

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Aden, Guard Duty, 26 Aug 1958
Accession Number: KO3105/19

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, Oct 1958
Accession Number: KO3105/20

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Gil Gil Camp, Kenya,
Remembrance Day Parade, 11 Nov 1958
Accession Number: KO3105/21

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Gil Gil
Camp, Kenya, Dec 1958, outside the drum store.
Accession Number: KO3105/22

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, Dec 1958,
the drum store.
Accession Number: KO3105/23

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Gil Gil
Camp, Kenya, Dec 1958
Accession Number: KO3105/24

Drummer Keith Raven, and Drum Major Ken Greenwood, 1st Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment, Nairobi, Kenya, Feb 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/25

Jack, Harry and Ray Gibson, from Lancaster, 1st Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment, Nairobi, Kenya, 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/26

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Nairobi, Kenya, 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/27

George and Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Regiment, Nairobi, Kenya, 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/28

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Nairobi,
Kenya, 16 Mar 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/29

Four Drummers, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Nairobi, Kenya,
Mar 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/30

“The Gang” 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Nairobi, Kenya, Mar
1959
Accession Number: KO3105/31

Jim, Drummer Keith Raven, Harry, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Regiment, Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/32

Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/33

Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/34

Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/35

Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 1959 Band of the 1st Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment, stood to attention as Queen Elizabeth The
Queen Mother passes by.
Accession Number: KO3105/36

Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/37

Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 1959 Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother leaving on a Bristol Britannia aeroplane.
Accession Number: KO3105/38

Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 1959 Band of the 1st Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment, after the departure of Queen Elizabeth The
Queen Mother passes by.
Accession Number: KO3105/39

Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 1959 Band of the 1st Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment, after the departure of Queen Elizabeth The
Queen Mother passes by.
Accession Number: KO3105/40

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Corps of Drums, Gil Gil Camp,
Kenya, 1959.
Accession Number: KO3105/41

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, ‘Three of my mates on cadre’
at Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, Mar 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/42

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, tent at Gil Gil Camp, Kenya,
1959
Accession Number: KO3105/43

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Cadre, May 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/44

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Cadre, May 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/45

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Cadre, May 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/46

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Lion Hill Range, Guard Duty to
watch for lions, May 1959.
Accession Number: KO3105/47

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, Jack, Charlie, Derek and
Dennis, May 1959.
Accession Number: KO3105/48

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, with a
locally made suit, made in 48 hours, although he said it did not last
long once it was home in England. It got wet and shrunk!
Accession Number: KO3105/49

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, with a
locally made suit, made in 48 hours, although he said it did not last
long once it was home in England. It got wet and shrunk!
Accession Number: KO3105/50

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, with a
locally made suit, made in 48 hours, although he said it did not last
long once it was home in England. It got wet and shrunk!
Accession Number: KO3105/51

‘Drum Major’ Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at
Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, 30 Mar 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/52

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil
Gil Camp, Kenya, 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/53

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil
Gil Camp, Kenya, 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/54

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil
Gil Camp, Kenya, 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/55

Drums Platoon, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil Gil
Camp, Kenya, 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/56

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, 1959
marking kit bags for the journey home
Accession Number: KO3105/57

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, 1959
marking kit bags for the journey home
Accession Number: KO3105/58

Two soldiers of the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil Gil
Camp, Kenya, 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/59

Drummer Keith Raven, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil
Gil Camp, Kenya, 1959
Accession Number: KO3105/60

Refreshments being issued prior to the start of the journey to Mombassa
by train, 25 Jul 1959, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil
Gil Camp, Kenya.
Accession Number: KO3105/61

Refreshments being issued prior to the start of the journey to Mombassa
by train, 25 Jul 1959, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil
Gil Camp, Kenya.
Accession Number: KO3105/62

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil Gil Station, Kenya, Jul
1959.
Accession Number: KO3105/63

1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment, at Gil Gil Station, Kenya, Jul
1959.
Accession Number: KO3105/64

HMT Dunera, At Mombassa, Kenya, 1959, ready to take the 1st Battalion,
King’s Own home.
Accession Number: KO3105/65
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