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3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Group of Reservists at Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, August 1914.  From a postcard dated 8th August 1914.  "We are off to Plymouth tonight...."  The card is captioned "The King's Own Lancaster  A few of the boys the Germans will have to face".
Accession Number KO2546/27

Un-identified group of 3rd Battalion, King's Own soldiers.  The image is from a postcard postmarked August 1914 and named 'Saltash'.  It is signed by 'Val' who was number 7178 Private Valentine Waite who went to France on 20th September 1914 and served with the 1st Battalion before being captured and held as a prisoner of war.  He originally enlisted into the King's Own on 9th July 1902, and was discharged sick on 20th November 1917 after time in a prisoner of war camp in Germany and a period of internment in Switzerland.
Accession Number KO2725/01

Part of the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion is seen leaving Saltash, near Plymouth, 17th November 1914. From Saltash they moved to Sunderland where they were based until mid-1915.
Accession Number KO2490/349

Warrant Officers and Sergeants Mess of the 3rd Battalion, 1918. Many are seen to be wearing overseas service chevrons, wound stripes and ribbons for the 1914 and/or 1914-15 Star medal.
Accession Number KO0205/05