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Collections - Medals

British War Medals in the museum's collection

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Private Herbert Edward Adkins, number 38916, 8th King's Own.  KO2774/01

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Private Joshua Airey, number 3334, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1758/01

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Private Thomas Anderton, number 3309, 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO1580/01

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2nd Lieutenant Joseph Frederick Andrews, 6th King’s Own. KO1528/02

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Private Arthur Edward Atherton, number 50013, King’s Own. KO2456/01

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Sergeant H Atkinson DCM, number 1884, Army Cyclist Corps. A Lancaster soldier.  KO1426/02

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Private John Baines MM, number 3817/241416, 1st/5th King's Own.  KO2957/03

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Sergeant Michael Baker, number 10238, 2nd King’s Own. KO1458/01

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Private Albert Bamber, number 1191, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2675/02

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Private John Blaylock Banks, number 241405, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2222/02

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Captain William Gordon Bayly, King’s Own. KO0944/03

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Private Albert Beardwood, number 36143, King’s Own. KO1319/01

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Sergeant George Hodgson Bell, number 2829, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO0989/04

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Sergeant Jeremiah Beresford, number 9770, King’s Own. KO2167/04

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Corporal A Black, Number 1754, King’s Own. KO0931/04

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Private J Bodley, number 18809, King’s Own. KO1986/02

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Major John Bois DSO MC, 2nd King’s Own. KO0770/06

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Private John Booth, DCM MM, number 12141, 7th King’s Own. KO1340/04

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Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Cuthbert  Borrett DSO, King’s Own. KO0771/10

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Private Henry Boustead, number 2238/240568, 1st/5th Battalion.  KO2519/02

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Sergeant George Cooper Bowles, number 11156, 6th King’s Own. KO1121/010

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Private Albert Benjamin Brace, number 2138, 1st King’s Own. KO1634/02

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Private John Willie Bradley, number 17697, 2nd King’s Own. KO2102/02

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Lance Corporal John Brockbank, numbers 10 & 200953, Rifle Brigade.  (Believed to have served with the King’s Own) KO2080/02

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2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank, King’s Own. KO1237/02

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Private Charles Brodie, number 7, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1978/02

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Captain John Nisbett Bromilow, 1st King’s Own. KO1069/02

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Private James Henry Brown, number 241968, 8th King’s Own. KO2256/01

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2nd Lieutenant Richard Leslie Brown Albert Medal/George Cross, 1st King’s Own. KO1677/02

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Private Ernest C Bruce, number 5493, 18th London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers. KO1442/07

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Rev C J K Burnell, padre to 1st King’s Own. KO1962/03

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Major William Carter MC, King’s Own. KO2168/05

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Lieutenant Arthur Hamilton Carter MC, 7th King’s Own. KO2520/04

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Private Edwin J Cartwright, number 1855, King’s Own. KO1517/02

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Private James Cassidy, number 7702, 1st King’s Own. KO1548/02

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Private Frederick Harold Catterall, number 17395, King’s Own. KO1549/02

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Sergeant John Cheadle, number 17681, 8th King’s Own. KO2459/03

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Private Harry Christian VC, number 10210, 2nd and 9th King’s Own. KO1117/03

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Lieutenant George Sidney Clark MC DCM, King’s Own. KO1526/04

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Warrant Officer Class 2 Charles George Clark, number 8543, 1st King’s Own. KO0934/02

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Lieutenant Colonel G B Coleman, King’s Own. KO0448/06

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Private Joseph Connerton, number 265562, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1390/01

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Company Sergeant Major John Connor DCM, number 11680, 2nd King’s Own. KO0879/03

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Warrant Officer Class 2 Charles Connor, number 6049, 2nd King’s Own. KO0808/04

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Private Jonathan E Cooper, number 118911, King’s Own later Machine Gun Corps. KO2210/01

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Major Vivian Leslie De Cordova, King’s Own. KO1281/23

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Private Albert Edward Corless, number 2188, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1616/02

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Sergeant John Corless MM, number 18739, 12 Coy Machine Gun Corps, former number 6693, King's Own.  KO2771/04

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Gunner William Corless, number 1077, Royal Field Artillery. Family members in King’s Own. KO1915/01

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Regimental Sergeant Major James Corrigan, number 3941, King’s Own. KO1618/03

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Major Lionel Ilfred Cowper, King’s Own. KO0987/06

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Private William Cragg, number 14405, King’s Own. KO0933/02

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Sergeant James Musgrave Cross DCM, number 202738, 1st/4th King’s Own. KO2204/02

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Private Harold Cross, number 1613, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO0960/03

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Private Bryan Cumpsty, Number 27456, 1st King’s Own. KO2391/01

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Private James Herbert Dagger MM, number 5484, 1st/4th King's Own.  KO2792/02

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Corporal Robert Evan Davies, number 2106, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2288/02

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Private Joseph Dawson, number 387, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1565/02

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Private John Dean, number 9790, 1st King’s Own. KO0920/02

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Private Reginald Sydney Dennison MM, number 2277, 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO2645/02

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Private George Dinsdale, number 10223, 2nd King’s Own. KO1155/02

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Private John William Downham, number 2099, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2460/02

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Private Harold Douthwaite (correct name Dowthwaite), number 38543, King’s Own. KO2607/01

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Private Herbert Eccles, number 2369, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1214/02

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Private Frank William Ensor, number 1140, King’s Own. KO1821/02

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Private Charles Eyres, number 17552, King’s Own. KO1939/02

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Captain Humphry Sidney Finch, King’s Own. KO1008/03

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Sergeant Alfred Fishwick, number 3039, 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO1375/01

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Private Thomas Henry Fishwick, number 265307, 8th King’s Own. KO1376/02

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Captain Thomas Brittain Forwood, King’s Own. KO0917/02

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Sergeant William Henry Foy, number 8526, King’s Own. KO1121/002

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Private James Frith, number 13932, 7th Battalion, King’s Own. Died of wounds 13 Aug 1915. KO3126/02

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Private James Francis Gardner, number 11271, 1st King’s Own. KO2495/02

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Private J Gardner, number 2241, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1361/02

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Private Harry Gaunt, number 15126, King’s Own. KO1156/02

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Sergeant G W Goddard, number 14067, King’s Own. KO0974/03

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2nd Lieutenant Richard Marie Jochim Goldie, King’s Own. KO1827/02

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Private G Graham, number 29467, King’s Own. KO2098/01

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2nd Lieutenant Alexander Gray MM, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, previously Corporal number 2867/240919, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2696/03

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Sergeant John William Green, number 142, King’s Own. KO1614/02

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Lieutenant William Howard Green MC, King’s Own. KO1358/02

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Sergeant James Lindsay Greenwood MM, number 8396, 1st King's Own.  KO2883/003

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Private Walter Grierson, number 241312, 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO0884/01

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Major Charles Walter Grover, King’s Own. KO2212/04

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Private James Hall, number 35281, 1st Battalion, King’s Own, who was a friend of Private Harry Christian VC. KO1301/02

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Private James Hall, number 240507, 1st/5th King's Own, KO3059/03

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Private Albert Halton VC, number 241475 1st King’s Own. KO1988/02

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Private Herbert Edward Hanson, number 20355, King's Own.  KO2855/02

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John Herbert Hardy, King’s Own. KO1019/05

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Lance Corporal Robert Hardy, number 8076, 1st King's Own.  KO2842/03

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Major Thomas Winlcok Harley, 9th King’s Own. KO1825/05

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Lance Corporal John Hirst Harper, Number T5/999 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2509/02

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Private James Palmer Harper, number 10333, 2nd Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Brother of Lance Corporal John Hirst Harper of 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2509/06

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Captain Leslie William Harries, King’s Own.  KO2548/02

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Sergeant George Edward Harrison, number 23629, 8th King’s Own. KO1539/01

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Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant John Heap, number 4343, King’s Own. KO1840/02

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Private John Hewart, number 16979, 2nd King's Own. KO2889/02

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Lieutenant Reginald Wilfred Higginson, King’s Own. KO2362/01

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Lieutenant Robert Aubrey Hildyard, King’s Own. KO2017/01

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Private Alfred Hodgson, number 22131, 6th King's Own.  KO2830/01

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Captain Christopher Lefroy Hodgson, King’s Own. KO1017/174

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Private  William O Hodgson, number 34039, King’s Own. KO0672/01

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Captain Edward Ralph Lambert Hollins, King’s Own. KO2548/22

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Sergeant Albert Holt, number 2112, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2106/03

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Private Herbert Hudson, number 17233, 2nd King’s Own. KO1500/02

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Sergeant Matthew Hughes MM, number 2492, King’s Own. KO1820/03

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Corporal C R Huntington, number 3416, 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO1564/01

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Lance Corporal Thomas Hutchinson, number 1477, of the 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own. KO3130/07

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Lance Corporal William Hutchinson, number 13642, 9th Battalion, King’s Own. KO3130/02

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Sergeant Robert Ings MM, number 23123, 8th King’s Own. KO2143/03

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Lieutenant Charles Gerrard Samuel Irvine, 1st King's Own.  KO2937/02

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Private John Thomas Ismay, number 1012, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO0764/11

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Captain John Prior Jamieson, 1st King’s Own. KO1831/02

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Private Albert Ernest Johnson, number 9657, 2nd and 6th King's Own.  KO2843/02

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Private Arthur Johnson, number 2890, King’s Own. KO1926/02

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Sergeant Arthur Jones, number 4507, 2nd King’s Own. KO1466/03

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Private Hughie Jones, number 42833, King’s Own. KO1025/01

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Major George Theodore Elphinstone Keith, King’s Own. KO0823/05

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Private Roland Kair, number 18906, 1st King’s Own.  KO2826/01

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Lance Corporal Fred Kellett, number 16782, 2nd and 1st King’s Own. KO1059/02

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Private Walter King, number 11390, King’s Own. KO1501/02

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Sergeant Oscar King MM, number 241402, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1612/03

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2nd Lieutenant Gerald Kirk,1st/5th King’s Own. KO1508/02

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Lance Corporal Wilfred Knott, number 15377, 8th King’s Own. KO1516/02

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Private James Lamb, number, 3007, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2266/03

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Private Frederick William Lane, number 2532, 1st/4th  King’s Own. KO2074/01

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Warrant Officer Class 2 Thomas Leach, number 19008, 11th King’s Own. KO1842/36

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Company Sergeant Major Frederick Charles Lelliot, number 8073, King’s Own. KO1442/03

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Lance Corporal Alfred John Ling, number 26816, 7th Battalion, King’s Own. KO3050/01

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Colour Sergeant John Francis Lintin, number 5754, 1st King’s Own. KO2269/04

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Private Fred Locke, number 21111, 6th and 9th King’s Own. KO1406/01

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Lance Corporal John Lockhead, number 2226, 1st/4th King’s Own. KO1407/02

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Private M H Loney 139219, King’s Own. KO1398/01

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Lieutenant Sellwyn Long-Innes, King’s Own. KO2400/04

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Major General Russell Mortimer Luckcock, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  KO3123/07

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Lieutenant Ronald Macdonald MC, King’s Own. KO1382/03

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Private George Marsden, number 9595, 1st King’s Own. KO0804/03

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Private George Marshall, number 15997, 8th King's Own, KO3035/02

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Sergeant Herbert Masheder, number 265621, King’s Own. KO1764/01

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Private Charles Mashiter, number 2059, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1598/02

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Sergeant Joseph Wren Mashiter MM, number 1868, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1197/03

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Sergeant James Henry Masser, number 8388, 1st King’s Own. KO1187/01

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Sergeant Tom Fletcher Mayson VC, number 2950, King’s Own. KO1740/03

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Private James McGuire, number 7745, 1st King’s Own. KO0902/07

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Sergeant George McMillan MM, number 25400, 6th King’s Own. KO1216/04

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Private H Metcalfe, number 25170, King’s Own. KO2060/01

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Private James Edward Middleton, number 28556, 11th King’s Own. KO2642/01

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Private Adam Houghton Moon, number 241886, 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO2286/02

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Private William Alfred Morris, number 2166, 1/5th King’s Own. KO2061/02

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Private William Mullin, number 260055, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2159/20

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Sergeant  William James Murphy, number 9772, 1st and 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO1471/01

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Corporal William Atkinson Neill MM, number 15369, King’s Own. KO1171/03

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2nd Lieutenant Charles Hutchinson Newbold, 1st/4th, King’s Own. KO2672/01

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Private Edward Cliff Nicholls MM, number 2513 (later 240713), 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1563/03

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Private Andrew Nolan, number 1574 later 240251, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1499/02

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2nd Lieutenant William Ernest Grice Ord-Statter, King’s Own. KO1288/02

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Private George Ormerod, number 21612, 11th and 1st King’s Own.  KO2679/01

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Private William Owen, number 1615, King’s Own. KO1578/02

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Private Henry Park, number 10370, 2nd King’s Own. KO1168/06

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Captain James Balfour Parks MC, 8th King's Own.  KO2869/01

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Private William James Parkinson, number 920, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1579/02

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Private William Procter Parr,  number 3534, 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO1095/03

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Private Herbert Pearson, number 36608, 8th King’s Own.  KO2705/01

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Captain George Pickup MC, King’s Own.  KO1098/02

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Warrant Officer Class 2 Alfred Price, number 32, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO0793/04

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Private John Pye, number 785, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO0764/05

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Private John Richard Pye, number 1296, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO0764/08

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Private Gilbert Quigley, number T4/1749, 1st/4th King's Own.  KO2715/02

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Private Harry Rawes, number 2918, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2046/02

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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Amyatt Ray, King’s Own. KO0840/25

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Private Peter Renshall, number 1321, King’s Own. KO1305/02

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Private John Edward Richards, number 14477, King’s Own. KO2029/02

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Private John Robinson, number 16208, 1st King’s Own. KO0913/02

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Corporal Archie Roddis, number 15884, 8th King’s Own. KO0959/03

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Private Daniel Rose MM, number 2522, 6th King’s Own.  KO2704/03

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Lance Corporal Thomas Henry Rose MM, number 15669/16069, 8th and 9th King's Own.  KO2791/03

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Ordinary Seaman R Rose, Royal Navy. Brother of William Rose. KO2399/03

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Private William Rose, number 2051, 1st King’s Own. KO2399/01

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Private William Rossall, number 2702/240819, 1st/5th King's Own.  KO2915/02

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Sergeant John William Sandham, number 1496, 1st/4th King’s Own. KO2441/02

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Private Edwin Seddon, number 8144, 1st King's Own.  Overseas 23rd August 1914.  Prisoner of war.  KO2991/02

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Captain Alfred Shrigley Seward, King’s Own. KO2018/02

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Private James Watson Sharpe, number 2841, King’s Own. KO1632/01

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Private George Simpson, number 3791, 1st/4th King’s Own. KO1645/01

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Regimental Sergeant Major William Edward Simpson, number 237, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1003/06

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Sergeant Major Instructor H E Smith DCM, number 146500 RAF, formerly number 4715, King’s Own. KO1048/05

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Private Abraham Smith, number 18254, 1st and 9th King’s Own. KO1168/02

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Private Myras Smith, number 1398, King’s Own. KO1374/01

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Private Thomas Henry Birkett Smith, number 3169, King’s Own. KO1271/08

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Lieutenant Raymond Thomas Somerville MC, King’s Own. KO1068/02

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Private Arthur Stewart, number 6099, 2nd King’s Own. KO1934/02

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Private James Stott, number 15617, 8th King’s Own. KO1611/02

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Lieutenant John Stott MC, 2nd/5th King's Own.  KO3030/02

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Sergeant Richard Taylor, number 1738 of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own.  KO3100/24

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Private William Taylor, number 2542, 1st/4th King's Own, later Machine Gun Corps.  KO2719/02

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Corporal Henry Tennant, number 464, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO2653/04

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Private William Thompson, number 2801, 1st/5th King’s Own. KO1898/03

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Lieutenant Colonel Antoine Dominique Thorne, King’s Own. KO0555/04

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Captain Edward Gerald Mytton Thorneycroft,  King’s Own, attached King’s African Rifles.  KO1268/02

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Private Thomas Timperley, number 1270, King’s Own. Suspender missing. KO2019/01

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2nd Lieutenant Ernest Victor Todd, Royal Engineers.  Commissioned into the King’s Own in 1923. KO1930/02

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Captain Valentine Otto Todd, 1st King’s Own. KO1609/01

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Sergeant Alfred William Towndrow, number 4368, 8th King’s Own. KO2108/03

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Private George Travis, number 2936, 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO0976/01

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Private William Frank Trayes, 28225, 7th and 1st/4th King's Own.  KO3003/01

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Private John Ede Tucker, number 4608, 1st/4th King’s Own. KO1759/01

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Private Albert Edward Turner, number 10863, 1st King’s Own. KO2030/02

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Private Sidney Vincent, number 27894, 11th, 8th and 2nd/5th King’s Own. KO1108/01

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Corporal Frederick Warburton, number 25680, 9th and 1st King’s Own. KO1193/01

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Acting Colour Sergeant Edward Warwick, number 8515, 1st King’s Own KO2538/02

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Private William Waters, number 8593, 1st King’s Own. KO1090/03

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Private Arthur Watson, number 7768, 1st King’s Own. KO1607/02

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Private William Hugh Wearing, number 938, 5th King's Own.  KO2784/02

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Company Sergeant Major R Oliver West, number 25391, 6th King’s Own. KO1491/07

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Lieutenant Robert Percy Firth White MC, King’s Own. KO1312/02

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Company Sergeant Major Thomas Wilkins, number 4124, 7th King’s Own. KO0803/04

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Warrant Officer Class 2 Ellis Williams, number 6612, 1st King’s Own. KO0815/03

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Corporal Leonard Williamson, number 15929, 8th King’s Own. KO1773/02

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Major Charles William Wingrove MC, 7th King’s Own. KO2492/03

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Corporal Jonathan Wood, 2nd/5th King's Own. KO3001/01

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Warrant Officer Class 2 Joseph Woodcock, number 92, 1st/5th Battalion King’s Own KO0938/02. 

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Private Edward Thomas Woodend, number 34845, 3rd King's Own, but is recorded as having served in India and received only the British War Medal.  KO2788/01

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Private William Lawson Wright, number 4433 & 241832, 2nd/5th Battalion, King’s Own.  KO3047/01

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Private John Yeudall, number 49200, 1st King’s Own. KO2177/01

 

Only a proportion of our collections are on display at anyone time.  Certain items are on loan for display in other institutions.  An appointment is required to consult any of our collections which are held in store.

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