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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 |
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