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HOME Museum Sales Donations Contact Us REGIMENTAL HISTORY 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century First World War Second World War Actions & Movements Battle Honours FAMILY HISTORY Resources Further Reading Links PHOTO GALLERY ENQUIRIES FURTHER READING LINKS		PHOTO GALLERY First World War 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own at Didcot, 1914 - Page Two Guard on railway bridge at South Moreton near Didcot, 1914. Accession Number KO0784/009 For an unknown reason the sentry at South Moreton railway bridge is accompanied by a goat! Accession Number KO0784/010 Private James Radcliffe Mawson, number 2152, at Didcot Railway Station, September 1914. Mawson died of wounds on 24th April 1915. Accession Number KO0784/002 Group at Moreton Bridge, near Didcot, including Sergeant Davies, Corporal Whiteside and Austin. Sadly it is not clear who is who. Accession Number KO0784/008 The Barrow motor lorry used for drawing rations from Abingdon and Oxford. Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Woodcock is sitting in the front on the right. Accession Number KO0104/45 RQMS Woodcock, front right, held the regimental number '92' and had been in the Volunteer Force long before the creation of the Territorial Force and 5th Battalion in 1908. He went overseas to France on 14th February 1915, and was discharged on 21st November 1916. His medals, now in the regimental museum, comprise the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal, 1911 Coronation Medal and Volunteer Long Service Medal. (Medals Accession Number KO0938) 'Part of the famous 200' at Didcot, 1914. From left to right: William Alfred Morris (number 2166, with C Company, wounded on 9th April 1915. Discharged 10th January 1916), G Jackson (discharged unfit), F Happold (later commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment), R Gardner, H Dolan, J Gilchrist, E R Simpson, H Cross and Harry Harold Wright (number 2030, with A Company, wounded on 26th April 1915. Renumbered to 240467 and discharged on 3rd January 1918.) Accession Number KO0784/003 1st/5th Battalion Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) at Didcot, 1914. The officers in the front row, from left to right, are Lieutenant Bill George, Medical Officer, Brigadier Hibbert, Lieutenant Colonel Lord Richard Cavendish, the Vicar of Didcot and Captain J Young, Adjutant. Accession Number KO0592/01 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own at Didcot, 1914 - Page One © Images are copyright, Trustees of the King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. You must seek permission prior to publication to any of our images.