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1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - Page Three


Beaumont Hamel Sector, view of British wire and high ground in no man's land in direction of Hawthorn Ridge.  July 1915.
Accession Number KO0233/07


Beaumont Hamel Sector, view of village of Beaumont Hamel (then held by the Germans) taken from a trench on the British Front Line held by A Company of the 1st Battalion, King's Own.
Accession Number KO0233/08


Beaumont Hamel Sector, 27th July 1915.  View of part of communications trench held by A Company of the 1st Battalion, King's Own.  The trench was cut out of solid chalk.
Accession Number KO0233/09


Sketch by Corporal Ellis Williams of the 1st King's Own in around May or June 1915 illustrating an early gas mask.  See a photograph of a similar gas mask here.
Accession Number KO0998/01-81

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