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What's New
The following pages
are new or have been updated. See also
New Acquisitions to the Museum's
Collection.
Collection of Captain Geoffrey Randall,
56th Anti-Tank Regiment RA TA, Second World War.
Added May 2013
Collection of Sergeant John Lacy Rowlandson,
King's Own and 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps 1928-1946.
Added May 2013.
Collection of items from Joe Hodgson.
Added May 2013
Information on the 55th West Lancashire
Division. Added February 2013
The diary of Lance Corporal Robert
Higginson, 1st/5th King's Own, First World War.
Added February 2013
The entire collection of photographs of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's
Own 1914-1916 in Major Fawcett's collection:
 | Collection:
Major Fawcett,
1st/5th King's Own, 1914-1916 Page
One |
 | Collection: Major
Fawcett: 1st/5th King's Own,
1914-1916 Page Two |
 | Collection: Major
Fawcett: 1st/5th King's Own, 1914-1916
Page Three |
Soldiers in the Lancaster Police Charge book: Private
David Hill, King's Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, 1896 and Private
Thomas Smith, King's Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1898.
Photos from an album from Ripon Army Camp,
First World War. Added January 2013
The majority of the photographs in the collection of Sir Thomas
Harley, who served with the 9th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, during the First World War. Added January 2013.
 | Sir Thomas Harley, 9th Battalion, King's
Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - page one |
 | Sir Thomas Harley, 9th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - page two |
 | Sir Thomas Harley, 9th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - page three |
 | Sir Thomas Harley, 9th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - page four |
 | Sir Thomas Harley, 9th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - page five |
 | Sir Thomas Harley, 9th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - page six |
 | Sir Thomas Harley, 9th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment - page seven |
 | Sir Thomas Harley, Commemorations |
Our new modern army display.
Added January 2013.
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List of The Lion and The Rose in the museum's
collection. Added January 2013.
Postcards sent home by Sergeant John
Miles Read, 1st/5th King's Own, in the First World War.
Added January 2013.
Images from "Reminiscences of the War, 2nd Battalion, The King's Own
Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1914-1918" by Lieutenant Colonel Bois,
complied from his notes, illustrations & photographs in 1937 added:
Page One - France;
Page Two - Egypt & Salonika;
Page Three - Salonika.
Added
January 2013.
Photographs from the Collection of Bandsman
Thomas Hunt, Trieste, Italy & Austria, 1946-47.
Added December 2012
Over two hundred images from an album
covering the 2nd Battalion in the First World War have been added.
Added December 2012
New section added to Photo
Gallery: Depot, Peace and Medal
Presentations, 1919. Added December 2012
More details about the
War Memorial Village, Westfield,
Lancaster. Added December 2012
Photographs relating to
Colour Sergeant John Preston of the
volunteers and 4th Battalion, King's Own, who served between 1897 and
1917. Added December 2012.
Photographs and information
about Private Harold Gordon Cooper,
1st/5th Battalion, King's Own, First World War and Post Office Home
Guard, Second World War. Added December 2012
Photographs from the album of
Corporal William Alfred Morris,
1st/5th Battalion, King's Own, 1914 onwards. Added
November 2012.
Photographs of Private James Radcliffe
Mawson, son of Thomas Mawson a landscape architect whose book
'An Imperial Obligation' spoke of 'homes for heroes' an idea from which
Westfield War Memorial village grew. Added November
2012.
Visit of
Lord Roberts to Lancaster, July 1904.
Added November 2012.
National Service photographs
added: Private Bill Roberts; Corporal
George Greenwood; Private
Donald Bowness; Corporal
John Graves and others. Added November 2012.
Photo
Gallery of King's Own Royal Border Regiment, 1959-2006 started.
Added November 2012
More photographs have been added to various pages through out the
website, bringing up to date new acquisitions etc.
Added November 2012
The Museum's
Annual Report for 2011-2012 has just been
published. Added October 2012

Just 'published' in digital
format on cd-rom we recommend
The King's Own The Story of a Royal
Regiment Volume 2 1814-1914 by Colonel Lionel I Cowper - the
best history of the King's Own. On a CD-rom, viewable through a
computer. Price including UK postage £12.75
Added October 2012
Letters and recollections of the Crimean War by Major James Paton.
Added September 2012
Useful
Military Definitions and
Abbreviations from 1918. Added September 2012
Maps
of the Abyssinian Campaign, 1868. Added August
2012
The
Mysterious Story of King Theodore's Drum of Gold.
Added August 2012
Following on from the donation
of his medals, the museum has now received (from a car boot sale in
Yorkshire!) a commemorative plate to Lance
Corporal William Rossall, 1st/5th King's Own. Added
August 2012
Gallery of photographs of
regimental graves and memorials.
Added August 2012
Railway tickets.
Added August 2012
Fortnum and Mason's Jubilee 2012 Tin.
Added August 2012
Full
record of acquisitions from 1929
showing basic details of items acquired and details of donor etc.
Added August 2012.
The albums of
Lieutenant Forbes-Taylor, 6th King's Own.
Added August 2012
Account of
Spion Kop by Private Cosgrove.
Added July 2012.
Photographs of unknown soldiers of
the Regiment. Added July 2012.
Message in a bottle, August 1914.
Added July 2012
Some of the pages have been
re-organised and new medals have been
listed, including decorations and foreign awards.
Added Jun 2012
War
Memorial Group at Westfield War Memorial Village.
Added Jun 2012.
Check out our Events in August and September.
Added Jun 2012
Photo Gallery: Royal Connections to the
King's Own. Added Jun 2012

Account by
William Moss of the action on Leros,
November 1943. Added Jun 2012
Comparison of King's Own and Royal Flying Corps Uniform, First World War.
Added May 2012
'Abyssinia' silver piece. Added Apr 2012
Boer War
Biscuit. Added Apr 2012
Gifts sent home by soldiers -
Private Ernest Hodgson, from Hong Kong, 1955-56
Added Apr 2012
Photos of the
visit of HRH Prince of Wales to Barrow in
Furness, July 1927. Added Apr 2012
War
trophies at Lancaster Castle in the 1920s and 1930s.
Added Apr 2012
Puggarree Badges of the King's
Own. Added Apr 2012
Cap badges of the
Regiment.
Added Apr 2012.
    
Details of the
Rangoon War Memorial.
Added Mar 2012
Information on
The Colours of the Regiment.
Added Mar 2012
     
Information on Soldiers of the
Regiment:
 | Private Herbert Edward Hanson,
King's Own, First World War. |
 | Lance Corporal Wilfred Knott,
8th King's Own, First World War. |
 |
Sergeant Alfred Price DCM, number
32, 1st/5th King’s Own. |
 |
Private
Matthew Farrell, number 1440,
1st/5th King’s Own. Killed in action 14 Apr 1915. |
 |
Lance Corporal
Thomas Henry Rose MM, number 15669/16069, 8th and 9th
King's Own. |
 |
Private
George Ormerod, number 21612, 11th
King’s Own. |
 |
Private
Herbert Eccles, number 2369, 1st/5th
King’s Own.
Added Nov 2011 |
The
King's Own - The National Service Years 1945-1959 Special
Exhibition. Added Nov 2011
Storey of Lancaster's Roll of Honour.
Added Nov 2011
Photograph of the SS Saturnia.
Added Nov 2011
The Museum's Annual Report for the year
2010/11 has just been published. Added Nov 2011
          
Over one hundred black and white illustrations of
regimental uniform by Mrs LI Cowper
represent the uniform of the King's Own, Militia and Volunteers between
1680 and 1910. Added Oct 2011
Victoria Cross
holders in the King's Own Royal Regiment. Added
May 2011
         
 | Photographs of the 2nd Battalion
at Blackdown, 1904. Added May 2011 |
 | Listing of the Colonels of the Regiment 1680 - 1959.
Added Apr 2011 |
 | Glass jug
commemorating the regiment in Abyssinia. Added Apr 2011 |
 | Photographs of the
1st Battalion in Aldershot, 1886.
Added Apr 2011 |
 | Photographs of the
Regiment in Dover, including 1868 and
1911-1914. Added April 2011 |
 | Details of
regimental accommodation in the
19th and 20th Centuries. Added April 2011 |
 | Just acquired: Sign of the 2nd/5th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Added March 2011 |
 | Account by Private H Livesey - of 2nd
Battalion, King's Own, of the battle leading up to the fall of
Merjayoun in Syria, on 23rd June, 1941. Added
February 2011. |
 | Information on the 56th Anti-Tank Regiment
and 66th Anti-Tank Regiment in World War
Two. Added February 2011. |
 | Information on the First World War Battalions of
the Regiment expanded. Added February 2011 |
 | Volunteer Training Corps in the First
World War. Added February 2011 |
 | Page on World War Two have been refreshed,
revised and expanded. Added February 2011 |
 | King's Own Royal Regiment Prisoner of War Care
Committee Added February 2011 |
 | Artist's Pencil Sketch - Soldier of the 1st/4th
Battalion, King's Own, 1918. Added February
2011 |
 | Regimental Cigarette cards and silks
Added February 2011 |
The museum has now re-opened (25th January 2011) following the
planned temporary closure whilst ceiling repairs and redecoration took
place. Come along to our refreshed gallery!

Scaffolding still in place with the ceiling work now complete.
Refreshed modern displays back again.

Photographs of post-war Ypres and area,
circa 1919. Added Jan 2011
Listing of:
 | Todd Family Collection: 2nd Lieutenant
Ernest Victor Todd and Major Thomas Charles Victor Todd MBE |
 | Royal Military College
Examination Papers 1920s, W T P Tilly Collection |
 | Photographs: Private J E Eaton, number
791564, B Company, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. 1930s. |
 | Warrant Officer Class 2 Arthur Charles
Bent, Number 3710226, King’s Own Royal Regiment Collection |
 | Collection of Private John E Davies, number
3710556, 2nd and 1st Battalion’s King’s Own Royal Regiment, circa
1934-1939. |
 | Photographs:
Depot, King's Own Royal Regiment,
Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster, 1950s. |
 | Cards sent to Miss Nellie Hutton by
Sergeant Fred Kellett, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment in the First World War. |
 |
Major Bruce Bairnsfather, 'Old Bill' &
'Bystander' postcards, World War One. |
 | Photographs transferred from the Regimental
Depot of the King’s Own Royal Regiment covering the periods:
1903-1907 (India), 1927 & 1954-59, including Hong Kong, Barnard
Castle, and Regimental Depot. |
 | Collection of Lieutenant Colonel William T
P Tilly, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment & Sudan Defence
Force etc. 1920 - 1960 |
 | Archive of Lieutenant Colonel James
Frederick Melville Openshaw circa 1931 - 1966 |
 | Letters of Captain Jasper Hall, Crimean War |
 | Collection of photographs relating to
Lieutenant A S Latham, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, as a
prisoner of war, World War One |
 | St. George's Day Parade, Trieste, 1947 |
 | Photographs and documents relating to
the service of Lieutenant Colonel E C Cadman, 5th Battalion, King’s
Own Regiment and other units |
 | Archive, photographs and postcards relating
to Private Edward Brockbank Dixon, number 200291, 1st/4th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, First World War |
 | Diary of Private William Thompson,
1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
February 1915 to April 1915 |
 | Collection of Lieutenant Colonel W A
Robinson, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. 1930-1960 |
 | Postcards acquired by Private Henry Park,
number 10370, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
circa 1910-1914 |
 | Photographs collected by Private John
Leslie Wiggins, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. 1936-1940 |
 | 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment,
Trieste, 1947 New Colours Presentation |
 | Photographs and postcards sent by Drummer J
Taylor, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, to his
family in Manchester, in 1913 |
 | Collection of Charles Henry Evans, King's
Own Royal Regiment, 1919-1940 |
 | Sir Thomas Harley, who served with the 9th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in Salonika/Macedonia
|
 | Letters and Diaries of Private William
Hodgson, 2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster, Regiment,
1914-1917 |
 | Enlistment Books - King's Own Royal
Regiment, 1939 - World War Two. Army Book 358 |
 | Lists of men discharged, died and deserters
etc 1920-1939 |
 | Nominal rolls recording the movements of
individual Army officers in and out of overseas theatres of war, for
the purposes of assessing entitlement to First World War Campaign
medals. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment |
 | Captain John Challenor, 3rd Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. 1900-1904 |
 | Letters & archive of Lieutenant Colonel
Alfred McNair Dykes, 1885-1914 |
 | Diaries of Major General Edward Robert
Provost Woodgate 1868-1900 |
 | Letters & archive of 2nd Lieutenant Richard
Leslie Brown, Albert Medal |
 | Archive of Captain Charles Lockhart
Overton, 7th and 1st/4th Battalions, King’s Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment |
 | Major George C Milnes, 1st/5th Battalion,
King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, archive collection |
 | Photographs, 1912-26 Captain
William Noel Briggs, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment |
 | Photographs, and other items
Lieutenant Colonel Willoughby Seymour Burton, King's Own Royal Lancaster
Regiment, 1872-1902 |
 | Photographs and other items,
1889-1908 Major N S Lysons, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Added Jan 2011 |
      
Coins, currency and money.
Added Jan 2011.
 | Archive of Colonel William Carter DSO
MC. Added Jan 2011 |
 | Spoons. Added
Jan 2011 |
 | Archive of Captain John Welch, 4th
Battalion, King's Own, World War One. Added Jan
2011 |
 | Receipts, receipted bills etc, Captain John
Welch, 1914-1921. Added Jan 2011 |
 | Aerial Photographs - Captain C L
Overton Collection Captain Overton was serving with
the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own, in 1918 when these photographs were
taken in 1918 and include La Bassée Canal, France, added Jan 2011. |
 | 3rd and 4th Militia Battalion Debentures,
Razors,
Knives, Trench dagger,
button sticks,
Lancastrian Brigade cap badge designs,
printing dies and stamps,
nameplates,
shoulder titles,
mess and dinner club rules,
Home Guard arm bands,
World War One Volunteer arm bands,
medal boxes and envelopes
Added Jan 2011. |
 | Officer Commissions and Warrant
Officer Warrants. Added
Dec 2010. |
 | Silver War Badges,
Identity discs, and
Home Guard Badges in the museum's
collection. Added Dec 2010 |
 | Regimental Calendars.
Added Dec 2010 |
 | Ensign James Gardiner, 4th
Foot, 1814. Added Dec 2010 |
 | Theatre Posters in the museum's
collection. Added Dec 2010 |
 | Panoramic photo, 1st/5th King's Own
700 yards south of Flers, Sep 1916 Added Dec 2010 |
 | Aerial photographs of Gravenstafel
and St. Julien.
Added Dec 2010 |
 | Group photographs of the 2nd/5th
Battalion, King's Own in 1916. Added Dec 2010 |
A Soldier of the 4th Foot, 1842.
Added Dec 2010
The Story of Douglas and Eva Blake.
Added Sep 2010
Boy Scouts on
Imperial Service, an exhibition to mark the Centenary of the
Lonsdale District Scouts. Added May 2010.
Records relating to the 1st/5th
Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment during the First World War,
from the collection of Captain Albert Hodgkinson,
Quartermaster. Added Feb 2010.
List of
officers of the Regiment 1680-1959. Added Jan
2010
Information on
archive material relating to the 1st/4th
King's Own in the First World War. Added Jan 2010
Collections relating to Regimental Music and
Instruments. Added Jan 2010.
Information relating to soldier's documents
held in the museum's collection, including Pay Books, Certificates of
Education etc. Added Jan 2010.
Repatriated Prisoners of War 1945
List of repatriated King’s Own Royal Regiment prisoners of war from the
European theatre of war. This including men captured in France and
Belgium, North Africa and the Western Desert, Leros, Italy and Germany.
Added Dec 2009
Roll of Honour of Soldiers of the King's
Own who died between the end of the First World War and 1939.
Added Dec 2009.
See also Roll of Honour of those soldiers of the
regiment who died between the end of the Second World War and 1959.
Added October 2008
Princess Mary's Gift to the troops. Added Dec
2009.
How we have
changed! The 80 years of the King's Own Museum.
Added Nov 2009.
Images and information on various regimental
certificates. Added Nov 2009.
1st/5th Battalion First World War Souvenir Card
or Souvenir Certificate.
Added October 2009
Photograph of LMS locomotive number 6161
'King's Own'. Added October 2009
The museum's annual report has been
published. Added October 2009
Photographs from of St. Helena and Boer
Prisoners of War 1900-1902. Added Oct 2009
Photographs of the King's Own Royal
Regiment and Border Regiment amalgamation parade, 31st October, 1959.
Added Sep 2009
Photographs of the Regiment (both Militia and Volunteer units) in
Lancaster from the 1850s to 1902.
Added Aug 2009.
Seven First World War Trench Maps are
available as reproductions from the Museum Shop, or by post.
Added Aug 2009.
1919 Booklet on Westfield War Memorial Village
Detailed Proposed Plan of
the War Memorial Village, circa 1919Added Aug 2009
These pages contain many graphic images and as such will take a little
while to download.
Photographs of the War Memorial Village,
Westfield, Lancaster. Added Jul 2009
Century Old Biscuit added to collection.
Added Jul 2009
Information on troopship HMT Dongola.
Added Jul 2009
Photographs of the regimental depot at
Bowerham Barracks in the summer of 1939. Added
Apr 2009.
New photographs of the 107th Regiment Royal
Armoured Corps.
Added Apr 2009
Love and War -
Sweetheart
items in the museum's collection.
Our special, on-line
exhibition, to mark St. Valentine's Day! Featuring 'sweetheart'
items including pin cushions, badges and postcards!
Visit the on-line exhibition here!
added February 2009
Details of Digital copies of books and documents
in the museum's collection added January 2009
Information on the Loyal and Friendly Society
of the Blew and Orange. Added January 2009
Find us on the
social networking site 'Facebook' and become a fan!
Added December 2008
Photos of the 2nd Battalion in Jersey
1908-12. Added October 2008
List of infantry regiment titles in 1881.
Added October 2008
Roll of Honour of those soldiers of the
regiment who died between the end of the Second World War and 1959.
Added October 2008
The Museum's Annual Report for 2007-08 has
just been published. October 2008.
Photographs of Bowerham Barracks during
the Munich Crisis of September 1938 added.
October 2008.
Military and regimental use of cycles article
added. September 2008
Cycle photographs added.
September 2008.
Private Edward Rathbone's collection
of photographs added to World War Two photo
gallery. 8th King's Own in Malta.
8th King's Own in Palestine and
1st King's Own in Italy.
Added August 2008
Territorial Army Centenary
1908-2008. Added June 2008
Work on the regimental uniform gallery
started. Added May 2008
Help us with this mystery miniature coffin
from the First World War.
Added March 2008.
Portrait of Private Henry Watson,
4th Foot, circa 1830. Added February 2008.
Photographs of the 1st Battalion,
King's Own in Dublin 1919-1922 added to the Photo Gallery.
Added January 2008.
Portraits from the King's Own Collection - a
special exhibition. Added January 2008
Information on medals in the museum's
collection. Added December 2007.
Images of the 1760 uniform of Captain Thomas
Plumbe of the Royal Lancashire Militia. Added
November 2007
The 2006-07 Annual Report of the Museum is
published. Added October 2007
Photograph of HMT Euphrates and
North Lancashire Bassett Hounds added. Photographs of the 1st Battalion when in
Osnabruck as part of the British Army of the Rhine, 1952-53.
Added September 2007
Various pages throughout the website have been updated and/or revised
with new information. The photograph of the
Zulu War has been added.
Added August 2007
Photographs of the Abyssinian Campaign
of 1868 added to Photo Gallery. Added July 2007
Photographs of the Crimean War by
James Robertson added to Photo Gallery. Added June
2007
Information added, including Troopship
Empire Windrush, King's Own in Australia and
British regiments in Australia. Added
June 2007
Between 1753 and 1756 the King's Own were stationed on the
Mediterranean island of Minorca. A pay
document exists in the museum's collection with details the 'charge of
the Garrison of Minorca' which also details the daily rates of pay for the
officers and soldiers of the regiment. Added June
2007.
Copies of the First World War Battalion War
Diaries of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment are now available
to purchase on CD-Rom from the Museum.
Added Apr 2007
World War Two photograph gallery has
been completed with the inclusion of images relating to the 2nd Battalion,
King's Own. Added Feb 2007
Photographs of troopships added to the
photo gallery. Added Jan 2007
Information on the archive of Lt Col Alfred Dykes
covering 1894 to 1914. Added Dec 2006
List of thirty medals 'missing' from the
museum's collection. Added Nov 2006
Rare film recording the unveiling of
Carnforth's War Memorial in November 1924 available from the museum on
DVD! Added Nov 2006
Information on Lancaster's Crimean War
Memorial. Added Nov 2006
The museum has just published, in two volumes, the British War and
Allied Victory Medal Roll for the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
23,000 names of the other ranks who were awarded the War and/or Victory
Medal are listed, along with details of battalion and other units with
whom a soldier may have served. More details in
Museum Shop. Added Oct 2006.
The 2005-06 Museum's Annual Report has just
been published. Added September 2006
Additional information added, including,
Military Cross, Indian Mutiny Medal and
Campaign Service Medal. Added
August 2006
Provisional Colours for the Duke of Lancaster's
Regiment. Added August 2006
Information on King's Own soldiers who were executed or
Shot at Dawn in the First World War.
Added August 2006
Additional information added, including the King's Own in the war
against the United States 1814-15,
Battle of Bladensburg and
Battle of Godley Wood.
World War Two information added, including information on the
Auxiliary Territorial Service,
Lancaster Home Guard and
Morecambe Home Guard. Added May 2006.
We are pleased to announce the publication of the reprint of The Fourth Battalion, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster
Regiment) and The Great War by Lieutenant Colonel W F A Wadham and
Captain J Crossley, first published in Ulverston in 1935. The book
is available from the museum for £7.00 including UK postage. Visit
our sales pages.
Added May 2006.
Additional information added, including words for
regimental marches, regimental collects, and
battle honours for volunteer and militia units.
Added March 2006.
Additional information added, including Private
Croston's account of action at Spion Kop, 1900; an incident in the
Peninsula war and the suicide of Lt Colonel
Charles Bevan in 1811; 1st/5th King's Own and the
Didcot connection in 1915. Added March 2006
Photographs of Medals have been added to the Medal
pages. Added February 2006
Over 300 Photographs of the Regiment in the First World War have been added to
the Photo Gallery. Added
January 2006
Images of the Regimental Museum.
Added January 2006
The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment launch cap badge.
Added January 2006.
The Journal of Captain Mason
of the 4th (or King's Own) Regiment of Foot, Recording his voyage to
Australia, his service there and his return journey 1831 - 1835.
Added December 2005
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