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


200051 Private Frederick Hamilton, The King's Liverpool Regiment
Identification I have taken my main information for this soldier from a pension record. This record shows that Frederick Hamilton served...


9243 Private Thomas William Halpin The King's Liverpool Regiment
Identification There was only one record for Thomas W Halpin on the CWGC website and he was in the King's (Liverpool) Regiment and...


3969 Private Lamont Grave, 10th Battalion The King’s Liverpool Regiment
Identification With such an unusual name I could be sure I had the right person, there was only one entry in the CWGC, one medal card and...


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...


2499 Private John Henry Fitzsimmons 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment
Identification The CWGC database has two John H Fitzsimmons but one was Canadian and UK Soldiers in the Great War showed that the other J...


4th Engineer Officer William Henry Irving Elliott
Identification There is a discrepancy in the names here, the memorial clearly says William H J Elliott but his name was in fact William...


240091 Sergeant Hugh "Stan" Stanhope Elliott 6th Battalion The King's Liverpool Regiment
Identification There was only one Hugh S Elliott in the CWGC database and he was in the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, research showed he...


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'...
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