REGIMENTAL HISTORYUse this resource to find out more
about the regiment! We have specific pages on the regiment by
century, as well as the two world wars. Check out our pages on
Battle Honours and Actions &
Movements which chart the location of the regiment for over three
hundred years.
Check our medal pages for information on
medals awarded to soldiers of the King's Own. Including First and
Second World Wars.
Following these links for specific topics!
Regimental Titles - regular, volunteer
& militia
Regimental Badge and Title
Lieutenant Colonel John Piper -Regimental Officer
1795-1821
An Incident in the
Peninsula War - Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bevan, of the 4th or King’s
Own Regiment and the Bridge at Barba del Puerco 1811
St. George's Day - the regimental day
Bowerham Barracks, Lancaster - the regimental depot
History of the Colours
Regimental Chapel at Lancaster Priory Church
Gibraltar and the King's Own
1939-45 War Regimental Memorial
March to Magdala - Abyssinia 1868
The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck....
King's Own Territorial Force 1908-1914
The Haldane Reforms
Regimental Music and March
Regimental Collect
The Battle of Waterloo
Journal of Captain Mason
of the King's Own, Recording his voyage to Australia, his service there
and his return journey 1831 - 1835
Lancaster's Crimean
War Memorial
Battle Honours to Volunteer, Militia and
Territorial Units
1st Battalion in Italy 1944-45
7th Battalion in Gibraltar 1942
2nd Battalion in Tobruk 1942
2nd Battalion in Burma 1944 as Chindits
107th Regiment RAC in 1944-45
Medals 1815-1962
