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FIRST WORLD WAR LIVERPOOL
A COLLECTION OF RESEARCH PROJECTS BY AMANDA TAYLOR
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685742 Acting Bombardier Hugh Link Loughlin, R.F.A.
Identification The CWGC had only one result for Hugh L Loughlin. Hugh Link Loughlin was born in Liverpool on 29th March 1898 and Baptised...


763081 Trimmer Richard William Longmaid, Mercantile Marine Reserve H.M.S. Alcantara
Identification There was only one result for R W Longmaid in the CWGC database and he was from Liverpool. Family Information Richard...


76928 Private Frank P Lloyd, The Welsh Regiment.
Identification Searching for F P LLOYD gave only one result on the CWGC Debt of Honour database and this soldier was from Liverpool....


53831 Private James Llewellin
Identification There were only 2 results for James Llewellin on the CWGC, one was from Bristol and the other from Liverpool. There were...


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...


035836 Corporal Herbert Ledger, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Family Information Herbert Ledger was born in Liverpool on 14th August 1889. His parents were John and Mary Ledger of 27 St James Place,...


23830 Guardsman Matthew Jones, Grenadier Guards.
Identification As you might expect, this is a common name, however, there were only 4 Mathew or Matthew Jones on the CWGC and of the 22...


211207 Fitter Gunner Herbert Jeffes, RGA attached RFA.
Identification There was only one H Jeffes on the CWGC database and investigation showed that he was from Toxteth. Family Information...


22427, Private Richard H Jaques 20th King's Liverpool Regiment.
Identification There was only one Richard H Jaques on the CWGC database and his parents' names matched those on a 1911 Liverpool census...


92269 Driver William John Jago, Royal Field Artillery.
Identification There were 5 possible entries for William Jago on the CWGC, one of them had 'other information' that showed he was from...


48558 Private William Edwin Noll, 13th Bn The King's Liverpool Regiment.
William Noll was my husband's Gret Uncle and it was because of William that I started researching First World War records, after being...
Charles Cavell
Charles Cavell was born on 21/06/1898 in Bowling Green, Bradford, the son of Ernest and Mary Cavell. In 1916 he was living with his...


15501 Lance Corporal Arthur William Collinson, 17th Bn The King's Liverpool Regiment
Arthur William Collinson was born on 9th December 1892 in Liverpool and Christened at St Clement’s Church, Toxteth on May 16th 1894 along...


104110 Sergeant John William Learoyd, Notts & Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters).
John William Learoyd (known as John Willie) was my 2x Great Grandfather. John William Learoyd was born in 1881 in Leeds, his parents were...


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....


15235 Private Amos Learoyd, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Amos Learoyd was a cousin to my 2x great grandfather. Amos Learoyd was born on the 23rd November 1890 in Stanley, Yorkshire. His parents...


9027 Bombadier William Etherington,Royal Field Artillery
This serviceman was not connected to Liverpool but he was my Great-Grandfather. William Edward Gordon Delatouche Etherington was born on...
Thomas Groome Crotty
The original information about Thomas G Crotty came from the Myrtle Street Asylum memorial records. The application form for this war...


An Introduction to War Diaries
All the way through the First World War, every unit from battalion size upwards in the British Army kept a war diary - this included...


Liverpool Pals
A quick post today to answer a question that was emailed to me - someone researching their family tree was confused why they were being...
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