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FIRST WORLD WAR LIVERPOOL
A COLLECTION OF RESEARCH PROJECTS BY AMANDA TAYLOR
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Private Joseph Morris, S/43185 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
Identification Identification of Joseph Morris was made through his brother Frank who is also on the memorial. Family Information Joseph...


Private Frank Morris, 19939 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment
Frank Morris This soldier was difficult to find, the best ‘fit’ was Roman Catholic and so I assumed that he wouldn’t have been on the St...


The Rose of Lancashire, Lieutenant Wall and Blackie
The motto of the 55th West Lancashire Division is: "They win or die who wear the rose of Lancaster" The red rose of Lancaster (on a white...


Lance Corporal Marcus McLean, 356377 10th Bn The King's Liverpool Regiment
Identification This soldier was easily identifiable as there was only one Marcus McLean on the census, BMD and CWGC records and he was...


Private George H Mallison, 23612, 2nd Bn, Leicestershire Regiment
Identification I am confident that this is the correct man, he is the only George H. Mallison recorded by the CWGC and I haven’t found...


BRITISH NURSE - Liverpool Echo 12/04/1917
LIVERPOOL LADY'S WORK AND SACRIFICE It will be of interest to many in and near Liverpool to learn of the honour paid by our gallant...


INTERESTING WAR WEDDING - 12/04/1917
Miss Madge Melladew, A.S.C., who, on Easter Monday was married at St Michael's Church, Chester-square, London to Major G. Gerard Shiel,...


GALLANT WHITE STAR PORTER - Liverpool Echo 11/06/1917
Mr George Milligan, of the Dockers, reports that Private Robert McCormick, of the White Star Porters, has been praised by the general of...


WAR HONOUR FOR LIVERPOOL NURSE - Liverpool Echo 09/01/1917
Many of her friends in Liverpool, in Lancashire and Cheshire, as elsewhere, who since the beginning of the war have had experience across...


ILLEGAL HOLIDAY - Liverpool Echo 22/08/1916
LIVERPOOL APPRENTICES FINED AT MUNITIONS COURT Forty apprentices employed by a Liverpool engineering firm were charged at the Liverpool...


OFFICIALLY DEAD - Liverpool Echo 9/7/1915
RETURN OF GUARDSMAN IN WHOM THE KING WAS INTERESTED Corpl. Frank Dodd, of the Scots Guards, and a policeman in Liverpool, is at present...


BLACK SOLDIERS - Liverpool Echo 29/06/1915
PROTECTION FROM INSULT IN LIVERPOOL STREETS The stipendiary magistrate made it clear today that black men in Liverpool must not be...


ONE-LEGGED MAN'S CALL - Liverpool Echo 22/08/1916
AN OLD SOLDIER MEMBER OF A FIGHTING FAMILY On the principle that it is better to rope in a few unfit men than to miss many who are fit...


2271 Private David Ward, 1st Dock Battalion The King's Liverpool Regiment
David Ward was born in Liverpool in 1880. The 1911 census shows that he worked as a railway clerk and lived with his wife and two young...


Example Attestation form for Dock Battalion
If you download the pdf file below, you will find a copy of a 1917 attestation form for the Liverpool Dock Battalion (copy created by...
KHAKI DOCKERS BATTALION
TO BE INCREASED TO NEARLY 1000 MEN THE TIMES (LONDON) Wed. 14th April 1915 It...
3,000 MEN FOR THE DOCK BATTALION
THE PLAN OF SELECTION The Times (London) Sat 3rd April...
DOCKERS IN KHAKI
THE TIMES (LONDON) Friday 9th April 1915 The first step towards the formation of the Liverpool Dockers’ Battalion was taken at the...


3598 Private William Astbury, 1/5th Duke of Wellington's Regiment
The information in the box below is an extract from a book called:A Village Goes To War – A History of the Men of Ravensthorpe who fell...


Sergeant George J MacKarell
There was only one entry for George J MacKarell in the CWGC database and it gave his parents names and address in Liverpool. George James...
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