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FIRST WORLD WAR LIVERPOOL
A COLLECTION OF RESEARCH PROJECTS BY AMANDA TAYLOR
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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...


4839 Gunner William Keam, Royal Horse Artillery & Royal Field Artillery
Identification There were two results for William Keam in the CWGC database. Cross-referencing them with UK Soldiers Died in the Great...


Private 325922 George Learoyd, Royal Scots
George Learoyd was the cousin of my 2xgreat grandfather. George's service records have survived and they paint quite a sorry picture....
Funeral of Driver Thomas Kay, RFA, Dec 1914
The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury, Saturday December 5th 1914 (page 8) LIVERPOOL SOLDIER’S FUNERAL IMPRESSIVE CEMETERY AT FORD In the...


14502 Private Matthew Thomas Hamilton, 4th Bn,The King's Liverpool Regiment
Identification The fact that there were two Hamiltons on the memorial suggested that they were brothers and this helped in the...


157051 Private Thomas Herman Lindberg / Girvin, Machine Gun Corps
Identification This man presented a puzzle, he was one of the last men to be identified and I was able to identify him thanks to the help...


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...


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...


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...
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