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The King's Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment 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 List of those who served with The King's Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment during The Great War Private Robert Cartmell 9th Battalion Read his Story. Hertbert Dutton 10th btn. C coy. Read his Story. Pte. Jonathan Fielding 6th Btn. (d.13th Sep 1915) Albert Holmes Second Lieutenant George Rowland Howson 1st Battalion (d.9th April,1917) Read his Story. L/Cpl George Edward Hughes L/Cpl William John Irvine Pte. James Kershaw Lt Gerald Kirk 1/5th Btn. Read his Story. Pte. Alfred K Robinson Read his Story. Pte. J. Sloan L/Cpl Thomas James Welsh 1st Btn. Read his Story. 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. 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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