THE LOST BURUTU LIST OF PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED The feared loss of life as a result of the sinking of the Burutu after collision amounts to from 150 to 200. The following official list of survivors was supplied by the Elder Dempster Company this afternoon: Passengers: R. Sidney Smith, M.T. Young, Arthur Howe, Raymond Conway, K.J. Douglas, Lieutenant M Shaw, A.J. Goodwin, D.T. J (D.F.G?) Underwood, F.B. Walter, T.N. Knowles, A.S. Sandall, J. Fakey (Vahey?) J. Carlisle, E.H.

Liverpool Weekly Courier 1 May 1915 FROM HILL 60 TO ALTAR MILITARY WEDDING AT WOOLTON The wedding too place at Woolton Wesleyan Churh this week, of Miss Emily Hesketh, youngest daughter of the late Mr J.H. Hesketh and Mrs Hesketh of High Street, and Bombadier George Stewart of the Royal Field Artillery, and a member of the Woolton section of the City Police. With another member of the section, constable Smith, he responded in August to the call to arms, both being reservists,

Liverpool Echo 7 jan 1915 NIGHT DUTY- HOME AND ABROAD Gunner Rowland Darlington, of the 8th Division Ammunition Column of the 3rd section of the British Expeditionary Force, formery a member of the Liverpool Police Force, stationed at Garston, writes to Inspector Keelan at Garston, thanking his commander for “a most useful Christmas present,” and says:- “The weather is very bad indeed; an I dare say you who are experiencing it on night duty are experiencing it very bad also,

Liverpool Echo 1 Dec 1914 MESSAGE FROM A GARSTON CONSTABLE AT THE FRONT The Garston sub-division of the Liverpool City Police Force has sent five of its members to the fighting line, four to the land forces and one to the Navy. Inspector Keelan, who is in charge of the sub-division, last evening received a letter from Police-constable 167F (Ernest Buckley) who writes:- "We are getting cared for, plenty of food, and we need it to keep the cold out, as it is very trying in the

Liverpool Daily Post 23 Nov 1914 BRITONS AS WAR PRISONERS LETTERS FROM LIVERPOOL SOLDIERS Mr F.V. Neal, a member of the Liverpool Police Band, and a Reservist, writes to his comrades in Liverpool from Germany:- I am pleased to let you know that I am still in the land of the living. Don’t get strangled over my address, suffice to say that I am a prisoner of war. Not a spacy occupation I can assure you. I cannot go into full details. I daresay you know through the papers that I

Liverpool Daily Post 20 Oct 1914 A glimpse of the sort of heroic service which liverpool police officers are giving at the front was afforded to the Watch Committee yesterday. Police-constable Giles, who had been invalided home after receiving a bullet wound in the thigh and another in the arm, entered the committee room by invitation, and received congratulations on his heroism an progress towards recovery. He manifested a desire to return speedily to the war.

Liverpool Echo 15 Oct 1914 ONE OF WARS VICTIMS Ec-constable Benjamin Smith, of the Liverpool Police, who was killed at Moissy on September 15, was 28 years of age. He was a reservist of the King’s Liverpool Regiment and rejoined the colours on the outbreak of hostilities, and had been in the thick of the fighting up to his death. Smith joined the Liverpool Police in 1908 and was stationed at Tuebrook, where he was greatly esteemed by his comrades and much sympathy is felt for

Liverpool Daily Post 13 October 1914 CAPTAIN’S TRIBUTE EX-LIVERPOOL CONSTABLE FALLS IN ACTION From a captain of the Coldstream Guards the following letter has been received by the father of ex-Liverpool Police-constable Hogson who was killed in action at Chaeonne, France:- “I wish to tell you how very much I sympathise with you in the loss of your son, No 8543, Private S K Hogson. I command his company, and I should like you to know that we all consiered him as one of the bes

Liverpool Echo 9 Oct 1914 BROTHERS MEET IN BATTLE EXPERIENCE OF LIVERPOOL CONSTABLE In the following letter, which has been sent to us, Bombardier William Harwood of the 2nd Dividion ammunition column R.F.A. who was a Liverpool police-constable before being called up with the reserve (August 4) describes how he met his brother, also a member of the Liverpool police until called up, in the firing line :- The other day I had been supplying ammunition. When returning I saw a bat

Liverpool Echo 9 Oct 1914 BROTHERS MEET IN BATTLE EXPERIENCE OF LIVERPOOL CONSTABLE In the following letter, which has been sent to us, Bombardier William Harwood of the 2nd Dividion ammunition column R.F.A. who was a Liverpool police-constable before being called up with the reserve (August 4) describes how he met his brother, also a member of the Liverpool police until called up, in the firing line :- The other day I had been supplying ammunition. When returning I saw a bat

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Many of her friends in Liverpool, in Lancashire and Cheshire, as elsewhere, who since the beginning of the war have had experience across...

LIVERPOOL APPRENTICES FINED AT MUNITIONS COURT Forty apprentices employed by a Liverpool engineering firm were charged at the Liverpool...

RETURN OF GUARDSMAN IN WHOM THE KING WAS INTERESTED Corpl. Frank Dodd, of the Scots Guards, and a policeman in Liverpool, is at present...

PROTECTION FROM INSULT IN LIVERPOOL STREETS The stipendiary magistrate made it clear today that black men in Liverpool must not be...

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...