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2nd/5th (TF) Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - Page One

Listed as the 5th (Reserve) Battalion, but later to become the 2nd/5th Battalion, soldiers are seen digging trenches at Blackpool in December 1914.
Accession Number KO2384/02

D Company, 2nd/5th Battalion Football Team, in around 1915/16.  Top right is Private Reginald Sydney Dennison, and far left on the second row is Corporal Griffiths.
Accession Number KO1983/01

2nd/5th Battalion, Signallers School at Blackpool, 1916.
Accession Number KO1716/07

2nd/5th Battalion, Signallers at Blackpool, 1916.  Lance Corporal J W Mashiter is standing third from left.  Joseph Mashiter, from Caton, went to France with the 1st/5th Battalion in February 1915, was wounded on 4th May 1915 and after time at Lees Court Military Hosptial at Faversham in Kent joined the 2nd/5th, before returning to France, completing his service as a Sergeant.  He served in the Home Guard from June 1940 to December 1944.
Accession Number KO1716/08

Another view of the signalling school, in Blackpool, 1916.  Lance Corporal Mashiter is second the left.
Accession Number KO2233/01

Corps of Drums of the 2nd/5th Battalion, 1916.  Private Walter Haywood is with the base drum.
Accession Number KO2790/02

Corps of Drums of the 2nd/5th Battalion, circa 1916.  Private Walter Haywood is seated left.
Accession Number KO270/03

2nd/5th Battalion, Band and Drums at Aldershot, 1916.
Accession Number KO0369/01

2nd/5th (TF) Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - Page Two