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FIRST WORLD WAR LIVERPOOL
A COLLECTION OF RESEARCH PROJECTS BY AMANDA TAYLOR
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Second Lieutenant Allan Dawson,
Identification There was only one Allan Dawson listed in the CWGC database and his medal card had a next-of-kin address in Liverpool, not...


421911 Acting Corporal Robert "Bob" Dawson Corran 3rd Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers.
Identification The CWGC database had only one R D Corran and research showed that he was from Liverpool. Family information Born in...


203097 Rifleman John James Corkish, 5th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment.
Identification There were 2 John J Corkish records on the CWGC database but one was from Douglas and the other from Liverpool. Family...


1220 Rifleman Henry Percy Clarke, 1/6th battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment.
Family Information Henry P Clarke was born in Liverpool on 13th May 1894 and baptised in St Philemon's Church, Toxteth on 11th July that...


2062D Acting Leading Seaman Matthew Chisam Royal Naval Reserve.
Identification There was only one Matthew Chisam in the records of the CWGC. Family Information Born 31st May 1872 in Workington,...


11394 Private Samuel Butler, 2nd Battalion, West Riding Regiment
Identification Assuming that this man was born in Liverpool, the BMD records show there were 2 Samuel Butlers born in Liverpool in the...


1544 Private Edward Burston, 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment.
Identification: I found two results for Edward Burston in the CWGC database. One had the full name Edward but was in the Devonshire...


233784 Able Seaman Thomas Henry Bramwell, Royal Navy
Identification There was only one result for T H Bramwell in the CWGC database and as it showed that his mother lived on Upper Stanhope...


358365 Private Norman "Norrie" Bracher, 10th Battalion KLR
Identification There was only one entry for an N Bracher in the CWGC database and this soldier was from Liverpool so I am confident that...


2390 Rifleman William Bolton, 6th Battalion The King's Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Rifles)
Identification The CWGC had 17 results for William Bolton. I could rule out 14 of them from the information on the certificates (born and...


Ernest Charles Benn, Mercantile Marine
Identification I identified this person through the census records, he was the only Ernest C Benn in Liverpool and was born in 1888 so he...


SS107737 Stoker 1st Class William Beattie
Identification There were 21 results for William Beattie on the CWGC database and 15 for W Beattie. I looked at the 'other information'...


30532 Private Arthur P Beattie
30532 Private Arthur P Beattie, 4th Battalion The King's Liverpool Regiment Identification The name given on the St James Memorial is...


Private George Ashbrooke Brewer, Royal Fusiliers.
George Ashbrooke Brewer was born in Pendleton, Manchester in 1884 and baptised on 26th September that year in the Primitive Methodist...


Sapper John Boswell, Royal Engineers
John Boswell was born in Liverpool in 1885, the the son of Thomas Boswell, a boiler-maker from Cheshire, and his wife Elizabeth. John...


Rifleman William James Blundell, 6th KLR
William James Blundell was born in Liverpool around January 1883, the son of William James Blundell (Book keeper) and Frances Elizabeth...


Henry Campbell Blackie, R.A.M.C.
Henry Campbell Blackie died after being discharged from his First World War service. He served/trained with the RAMC for a short period...


Private A Gordon Bartlett, 10th Bn The King's Liverpool (Liverpool Scottish)
Arthur Gordon Bartlett was born in Montreal, Canada on 13 April 1894 to father Edmund Thomas Bartlett and mother Ethel (formerly Birt)....


Corporal Frederick Acton, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Commemorated on a family headstone in Allerton cemetery. CorporalActonFrederick R.W.F. Killed in action at Bullecourt, France 14th May...
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