The Churches Conservation Trust files for St James Church have been extremely helpful in tracing the journey of this memorial from Holy Trinity Church to the Slaughterhouse Pub in Liverpool. I can now say for sure that the memorial was in St James Church, Toxteth for a period. This memorial was brought to my attention when my St James memorial project got some publicity and a lady contacted me to ask whether her relative was on the memorial I was researching. It wasn't but I

The name on the memorial was Dr G.R. Mill, there was only one result on CWGC for this name and he was a doctor so I am certain it is the correct man. It is not known why he was commemorated on the Holy Trinity memorial as he did not live in Liverpool, he was appointed house-surgeon in a Liverpool hospital so may have interacted with the school on a professional level, or been involved via a charity or public health board. Dr G.R. Mill RNVR George Robertson Mill Staff Surgeon

Robert Atkinson was enumerated at the Holy Trinity Industrial School in 1911 when he was 14 years old. This record shows that he was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. There are, unfortunately, dozens of R Atkinsons commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Until I can get definite proof, I present the following details as the man I believe to be commemorated on the HTIS memorial. Robert Danson Atkinson was born on the 29th September 1896 in Todmorden, Yorkshire. His

The CWGC had 6 records for G.W. Baxter. Only one of them was from Liverpool and he lived in Toxteth, close to Holy Trinity Church. It is probable that this is the correct man, unless I find something to contradict it, I will research him as the correct man. George William Baxter was born on the 26th September 1889 in Liverpool and baptised on 13th November 1889 in Everton, Liverpool by his parents George William and Sarah. The church record shows that they lived at 15 Carmel

There were 10 C Beasley casualties on the CWGC database but only 1 was from Liverpool so I have identified him as our man. I do not currently have a link to Holy Trinity Church but his family were Church of England and they lived at times in the Toxteth area. I'm hoping to find more information in the Industrial School or church records about the commissioning of the memorial. Charles Richard Beasley was born on 18th July 1891 and baptised on 2nd August that year in St Clemen

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...