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Collections - Regimental
SilverSpoons
Spoons were often awarded as prizes in regimental and other
competitions. Some spoons were made of silver, others
Electro-Plated Nickel Silver. Some feature regimental designs
along with rifles or golf clubs. Some are inscribed with the name
of the winner and the competition. Others are not inscribed.
Shooting Spoons
Shooting spoon awarded to Colour Sergeant William Carter, 2nd
Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, in 1910. With box
of issue.
Accession Number: KO2168/09
Shooting Spoon won by Company Sergeant Major R Oliver West, 2nd
Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1491/20
Similar spoons of the same pattern:
 | Un-named but won by Warrant Officer Class 2 George William
Bone, number 3704594, King's Own Royal Regiment. Accession
Number: KO2199/06 |
| Sergeant John Francis Lintin, 1st Battalion, King's Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, ‘89 Points Plus 9 Handicap = 98 points’
November 1910. Accession Number: KO2772/01 |
| Sergeant John Francis Lintin, 1st Battalion, King's Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, 500 Yards, 1914. Accession Number:
KO2772/02 |
| Company Sergeant Major R O West, King's Own Royal
Regiment. Accession Number: KO1491/21 |
| Company Sergeant Major R O West, King's Own Royal
Regiment. Accession Number: KO1491/22 |
| Company Sergeant Major R O West, King's Own Royal
Regiment. Accession Number: KO1491/23 |
Shooting spoon, Warrant Officers and Sergeants, 300 Yards Shoot, won by
Sergeant R Norris, 1937.
Accession Number: KO2045/01
Similar spoons of the same pattern:
| Warrant Officer Class 2 George William Bone, number
3704594, King's Own Royal Regiment. Accession Number:
KO2199/07 |
| Lance Sergeant Stanley Blezard, number 3708499, 2nd Battalion,
King's Own Royal Regiment. Circa 1930s. Accession Number
KO2516/04 |
| Un-named but won by Lance Sergeant Stanley Blezard, number
3708499, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment. Circa
1930s. Accession Number: KO2516/05 |
| Sergeant F Clarkson, King's Own Royal Regiment, 1934.
‘After Sergeant Clarkson had been presented with this spoon, my
mother - Mrs Ruby Hamblett, wife of Sergeant Hamblett -
challenged him to a contest, which she won! He passed the spoon to
her!" information from donor. Accession Number: KO2467/01 |
| Company Quartermaster Sergeant Archibald Joseph McLaughlin,
number 3703280, King's Own
Royal Regiment, Cairo 1934. Accession Number: KO2128/01 |
Silver golfing spoon, 1937-38'.
Accession Number: KO1491/
Silver golfing spoon, 'Best Handicap Score'
Accession Number: KO1041/01
Electro Plated Nickel Silver spoon won by Warrant Officer Class 2
George William Bone, number 3704594, King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2199/08
Similar spoon of the same pattern:
Not issued and not inscribed EPNS spoon.
Accession Number:
KO1042/01
Shooting spoon won by Sergeant Roland Nicholas, 4/5th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Regiment, circa 1965. Highest score, Sergeant.
Accession Number: KO2196/01
Similar spoon of the same pattern:
| Private David Shuttleworth, 1st Battalion, King's Own
Royal Regiment, circa 1958-60. Accession Number: KO2524/01 |
Boxed set of six King's Own Royal Regiment shooting spoons won by
Company Sergeant Major R Oliver West, number 3701972, 2nd
Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment. Spoons made by The
Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Limited, London.
Accession Number: KO1491/24
Pair of King's Own Royal Regiment spoons.
Accession Number: KO1491/29 & KO1491/30
Mustard Spoon, owned by Company Sergeant Major R Oliver West.
Accession Number: KO1491/28
Non-Regimental
Shooting spoon won by Sergeant Roland Nicholas, 4/5th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Regiment, circa 1965.
Accession Number: KO2196/02
Burma Railway Volunteer Corps
Burma Railway Volunteer Corps Shooting spoon won by Company Sergeant
Major R Oliver West whilst he was extra-regimentally employed in
the 1930s.
Accession Number: KO1491/33
Auxiliary Forces India, Rangoon Battalion
Auxiliary Forces India, Rangoon Battalion Shooting spoon won by Company
Sergeant Major R Oliver West whilst he was extra-regimentally
employed.
Accession Number: KO1491/31 Another similar KO1491/32
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