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First World War

8th (Service) Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Sergeants Mess of the 8th Battalion, 1914.  The only identified soldier is Sergeant Brown who is kneeling on the right hand side below the person in civilian dress.
Accession Number KO1011/01

Corporal Leonard Williamson, number 15929, who was killed in action on 13th November 1916 towards the end of the Battle of the Somme.  The lapel badge he is wearing states '8 KOR'.
Accession Number KO1773/10  Negative Number 745

Stretcher Bearer Section of the 8th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster, Regiment, taken in around 1915.  Some men can be seen wearing the lapel badge issued instead of the regimental cap badge which was in short supply.  Seated first left is Private Thomas Henry Rose, number 16069, who was later awarded the Military Medal whilst with the battalion for action on 14th July 1916 during the battle of the Somme.  He later transferred to the 9th Battalion and served in Salonika and was awarded a bar to the Military Medal.
Accession Number KO2791/05

Group of Sergeants and Warrant Officer of the 8th Battalion in October 1917, in France.
This image was acquired via an internet auction site in January 2007, without any information.  In August 2007 a visitor to the museum had a copy of the same postcard, which contained surnames - which also confirmed the image to be of the 8th Battalion.
With the surnames and further research it is believed the men are:
Standing, left to right: Sergeant Thomas Harrison DCM; Sergeant William Blackburn; Sergeant Thomas Johnstone (?); Sergeant Gordon Pickering; Sergeant Albert Moores; Sergeant George (?); Sergeant Christopher Braithwaite.
Seated: Warrant Officer 2, Company Sergeant Major, Ernest Ramel; Colour Sergeant Thomas Taylor; Sergeant Walter Nuttal.
Seated, front:  Sergeant T Shields; Sergeant Ernest Jones and Sergeant Frederick Gornall.
Accession Number: KO2546/30

Officers of Headquarters Company of the 8th Battalion in Cologne as part of the British Army of the Rhine in 1919.
Accession Number: KO2684/55