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1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, - India, Group Photos - Page Two

Officers of the 1st Battalion, King's Own, Karachi, India, December 1939.
Back row, left to right, 2nd Lieutenants H P Burke, C J Blyth, R F Saunders, A L S Pott, J H Thorp.  Middle row, left to right, 2nd Lieutenant Nigel St. G. Gribbon, Lieutenants F R Dickinson, R H C Bryers, 2nd Lieutenants P J H Weir, A J Addy, Lieutenant J B Underwood and 2nd Lieutenant D E H Henning.  Front row, left to right, Captains W Bell MC, R A Heape, Major R E A Jones, Captain & Adjutant W V H Robins, Lieutenant Colonel V L de Cordova, MC, Major D R Tittle, Major E N Everitt, Captain J H M Young, and Lieutenant J G M Wybergh.
Accession Number: KO0705/34


Warrant Officers and Sergeants of the 1st Battalion, King's Own, Karachi, India, December 1939.
Back row, left to right: Sergeants Brooks, Pelter, Coates, Woodcock, Taylor and Rogers (Royal Army Ordnance Corps).
Fourth row, Sergeants Jode, Molloy, Hilton, Crombie, Drennan, Bonney, Arnold, Alker, Cronshaw, and Leach.
Third row: Sergeants Chapman, Duggan, Roberts, Whelpton, Park, Drum Major Fitzpatrick, Sergeants King, Murphy, Leith, Jordan and Farghar.
Second row: Company Quartermaster Sergeant Walker, Sergeant Collins and Wilson, CQMS Maguire, Acting Staff Sergeant Murphy (RAOC), Sergeant Evans, Platoon Sergeant Majors Davies and Graham, CQMS Hawkins and Waller, PSM Curtis and Sergeant Barf.
Front row: Company Sergeant Majors Hogg and Young, Orderly Room Quartermaster Sergeant Bone, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Bone, Captain and Adjutant W V H Robins, Regimental Sergeant Major Parker, Lieutenant Colonel V L de Cordova MC (Commanding), Bandmaster Coventry, Major D R Tittle (Second in Command), Captain W Bell MC (Quartermaster), Company Sergeant Majors Spier, Lowe and Morton.
Accession Number: KO0705/36 & KO2561/19


Winners and Runners Up, Sind Open Championship (Boxing) 1940, 1st King's Own, India.  Standing, left to right, Privates J Hilton, E Burrows, Lance Corporal R Higham, Private J McPolin and Lance Corporal S Wiggins.  Seated at front is Drum Major G Fitzpatrick.
Accession Number: KO1372/07


Band of the 1st Battalion, Napier Barracks, Karachi, India, 1940.
Accession Number: KO2561/16

1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment, - India, Group Photos - Page One