Portraits from the King's Own Collection
Private Henry Thomas Ashmore, 1st/4th King’s Own, 28th July 1917.
Watercolour by Captain Albert E Ellwood MC.
Private Ashmore is dressed for battle as a number 2 of a Lewis Gun team of
the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Believed to
be Private Henry Thomas Ashmore, number 201429, from Bolton, who enlisted
on 18th February 1916, was wounded in November 1917 and discharged on 21st
February 1919.
KO0688/01 Gift of Mrs G E Ellwood.
2nd Lieutenant Christopher George Hodgson 1st King’s Own. Oil over
photograph by Vandyke.
Son of Lieutenant Colonel C L Hodgson of the King’s Own, Christopher was
commissioned into the King’s Own on 10th February 1940. He served with the 1st Battalion and
flew with them from
India to Iraq in 1941. He was killed in action at Falluja on
22nd May 1941,
at the age of 20. He is buried in Habbaniya War Cemetery,
Iraq.
KO1017/092 Transferred from Regimental Headquarters
Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Lefroy Hodgson, King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, 1901-1927. Father of 2nd Lieutenant
Christopher George
Hodgson (above).
Accession Number: KO0968/01
Sir John Salmond, GCB, CMG, CVO, DSO, DCL, LLD, The King's Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1901-1912, Marshal of the Royal Air Force,
1930-1933. Painted by Roy Kearsley, commissioned by Brigadier John
Hardy, 1962.
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond (1881-1968).
Joined the Royal Flying Corps at the beginning of the First World War,
he was promoted Director General of Military Aeronautics at the War
Office in 1917. At 36, he was the youngest ever member of the Army
Council and in 1931 became Marshal of the Royal Air Force. He came out
of retirement to join the Second World War Effort.
Accession Number: KO0924/01
2nd Lieutenant Richard Leslie Brown, 1st
Battalion, King’s Own, was awarded the Albert Medal For Saving Life on
Land.
“In France on 27th March 1917 Lieutenant Brown was instructing a class
on firing rifle grenades. Owing to a defective cartridge case one of the
grenades was lifted only about two inches, and then fell back into the
cup. The safety catch had been released and the grenade was fusing.
Lieutenant Brown at once ordered the men to clear and, running forward,
picked up the rifle seizing it between his legs, grasped the grenade in
his hand and endeavoured to throw it away. While he was doing so it
exploded, blowing off his right hand, and inflicting other wounds. Had
not Lieutenant Brown seized the grenade in his hand, thus sheltering the
men, there could be little doubt that several of them could have been
killed or severely injured.”
The Albert Medal was exchanged for the George Cross in 1973 and the
Albert Medal presented to the Museum. Later the museum acquired
the George Cross and Brown's other medals.
This portrait was painted by Herbert James Gunn RA in the 1964 when he
was Chairman of the Board of the engineering firm of Hopkinsons Ltd of
Huddersfield, who he had worked for since the 1920s. He died on 25th
September 1982.
Accession Number: KO2568/01
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