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The King's Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment
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The King's Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment can be traced back to the Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Foot formed in 1680.
Battalions during the Great War
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd Battalion
- 1/4th Battalion
- 2/4th Battalion
- 3/4th Battalion
- 1/5th Battalion
- 2/5th Battalion
- 3/5th Battalion
- 6th (Service) Battalion
- 7th (Service) Battalion
- 8th (Service) Battalion
- 9th (Service) Battalion
- 10th (Reserve) Battalion
- 11th (Reserve) Battalion
- 12th Battalion
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List of those who served with The King's Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment during The Great War
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Can you help identify an unknown soldier?
The remains of three soldiers, two German and one British, were found at Serre in 2003 during an excavation by No Man's Land: the European Group for Great War Archaeology. The British soldier has still not been identified. He belonged to the 1st battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and was killed on the morning of 1st July 1916. He was carrying a Guernsey coin in his pocket.
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L/Cpl Thomas James Welsh 1st Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) My Grandfather Thomas James Welsh was in the 1st Battalion Kings Loyal Lancashire regiment, a Liverpool lad. As a boy I would ask him about his war experience and it would always upset him. but he did say that he was a lewis gunner and he was shot in the neck with the bullet passing straight through his back. It was the germans who recovered him and he remembers waking up in a german field hospital with a german male medic saying to him in good english "dont worry Tommy your war's over now" which I have always thought is quite a compassionate thing to say to the enemy. He was imprisoned for the rest of the war I believe in Germany and Holland. |
Private Robert Cartmell 9th Battalion Kings Own Lancashire Regiment Alas I have very little info, as I only knew through my mother that my father Robert Cartmell served in the Great War, he was wounded in the legs, I dont recall my father, not even a photo, perhaps through this site I might find more out, as I understand his service records were destroyed in an air raid during world war two, all I have is his Medal Card, perhaps some one can help me? Very little is known of him at the Kings Own Royal Lancs Museum, is there anyone that might have old photos of the Regt? I would be most grateful for anything. |
Pte. Alfred K Robinson Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regt I have come across some old medals at my mums house that are not from my family and am trying to return them to the next of kin of Pte Robinson. Does anyone know of his family? |
Second Lieutenant George Rowland Howson 1st Battalion Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regt (d.9th April,1917) George Rowland Paget Howson - "Uncle Rolly" worked in the Liverpool and Manchester District Banking Company,later the District Bank Ltd.,in various branches around Lancaster before the Great War.
His father,Robert G.W.Howson,was Manager of the Morecambe branch of the Lancaster Banking Company (which became the District Bank).(He was a great friend of Sir Edward Elgar, who wrote a part song in his memory when he died in 1905).
I am not sure when Rowland went off to the War - having been born in 1886 - he would have been 28 in September 1914 and therefore older than many who joined up. However, I have a postcard of him in uniform taken in May, 1916 at Argues, Pas de Calais.
Another postcard sent to his mother showing two soldiers carrying a metal tub states "My leave has been cancelled. This photo is of the schoolmaster chap and myself as hut orderlies. We have just finished washing up. Yours R."
In his sister's scrapbook (my grandmother),I have the original Post Office Telegram dated 23rd April,1917 from Buckingham Palace stating
"The King and Queen deeply regret the loss you and the Army have sustained by the death of your son in the service of his country. Their majesties truly sympathise with you in your sorrow. Keeper of the Privy Purse."
Rowland's obituary (probably in the "Lancaster Guardian and the "Morecambe Visitor" - about April 20th,1917)has a photo and states "Information has come to hand that 2nd Lieutenant George Rowland Padgett (should be "Paget")Howson,Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, younger son of the late Mr and Mrs R.G.W.Howson was killed in action on Easter Monday leading his platoon in the attack". (More to follow)
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Private Henry Chappell 1st Btn. Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regt (d.20th Oct 1914) Henry Chappell was my grandfathers brother and it looks like a pre WW1 serving soldier with the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regt. My Grandfathers family orginated from London/Kent so it is strange Henry belonged to a Northern Regiment. I have no information regarding henry and am unaware of where he was living and whether he was married etc. I know that he landed in France/Belgium on the 12th September 1914 and was killed in action in October 1914, he has no known grave so his name is recorded on one of the many memorials. If anyone has any information or is a relative of Henry please contact me |
Sjt. William Edmund Pittaway 242 Brigade, A bty. Royal Field Artillery (d.24th Mar 1917) I have a copper bracelet that is handmade and engraved by, I assume, Mr Pittaway. It has been engraved with his name and various battles that took place in the Somme which, again I assume, that Mr Pittaway took part in. These are "Somme", "Albert", "Hebuterne", "Poizieres", "Ovilliers", "Arras", "Mesnil", "Le Sars", "Martinpuich", "Thiepval" and "Au Bois". I have checked on a map and all these places are located just south of Arras. One or two of the place names have been spelt incorrectly and I have spelt them above as they appear on the bracelet in case the names or spelling has changed in the last 95 years.
Above his name Mr Pittaway has engraved the following: 2335 R.F.A. A-Battery 242 Brigade and either side of his name are the dates 1914 and 1916, these are the dates, I believe, during which 242 Brigade was in existence.
I would like to try and find out more about Mr Pittaway.
Update: Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Serjeant William Edmund Pittaway, who served under the name of Thompson, was killed on the 24th of March 1917, age 33. At his death he was a Sergeant with the King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), 'A' Company, 1st Battalion. He was the son of William Edmund and Maria Pittaway and also served in the South African War. He is buried in Birmingham's Witton Cemetery. |
Pte. William Ratcliffe 28th Divisional Cyclist Company Army Cyclist Corps My grandfather William Radcliffe, enlisted in the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment on 24/01/1911. He was serving in India with the 2nd Battlion at the outbreak of WW1, and was brought back to England. It appears that on arrival in the UK, he was transferred to the newly formed 28th Divisional Cyclist Company latterly XVI Corps Cyclist Battalion. William arrived in France 19/01/1915 and served there until 24/10/1915 when the unit embarked for service in Salonika. I regrettably have no other details until his ultimate ill health discharge on 15/01/1919. |
Pte. Joseph Mingham Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment I am trying to find info on my granddad, Joe Mingham. He served with the Kings Own and the Machine Gun Corps and was on the Somme at some point and was injured by flying shrapnel in his kidney area. I believe he was also temporarily in action with the Staffords. I always remember him saying one of their officers sent two men to a nearby farm house to shoot some local French woman who was signalling to 'jerry'. I also seem to remember him saying he was in Burma. My granddad died in 1977 in Morecambe, it seems his wounds finally caught up with him. |
Pte. John Carke 2nd Btn Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment (d.8th May 1915) |
Fourth Battalion the Kings's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and the Great War W.F.A. Wadham & J. Crossley
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