14th Oct 1918 Liverpool Echo GELDART - October 3 as the result of collision of the R.M.S. Burutu, aged 52 years, Chief Engineer JOSEPH J GELDART beloved husband of Elizabeth Geldart, late 11 Beechwood-road, Grassendale - Deeply mourned by his wife and sons.

10 Oct 1918 Aberdeen Evening Express CITY MAN DROWNED Lost in Sinking of the Liner Burutu. News has just been received in Aberdeen that Mr Frederick Henderson, European reader, Government Printing Office, Lagos, West Africa, eldest son of Mr John Henderson, 46 Mount Street, of the "Aberdeen Daily Journal," has been lost at sea from the liner Burutu, which was in collision with another vessel on 3rd inst. Mr Henderson was on his way home to Aberdeen on leave. He was well known

The following names are WW1 casualties who were commemorated on memorial inscriptions on family headstones in Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool. I collated the list from the excellent www.toxtethparkcemeteryinscriptions.co.uk website and went on to add details from the CWGC and other sources wherever possible. If you have a connection to any of the names on this list, I'm happy to share what I have collected. You can contact me using the form on the main page if you have any

Identification Identification of Joseph Morris was made through his brother Frank who is also on the memorial. Family Information Joseph...

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...

The motto of the 55th West Lancashire Division is: "They win or die who wear the rose of Lancaster" The red rose of Lancaster (on a white...

Identification This soldier was easily identifiable as there was only one Marcus McLean on the census, BMD and CWGC records and he was...

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,...

Mr George Milligan, of the Dockers, reports that Private Robert McCormick, of the White Star Porters, has been praised by the general of...

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...

David Ward was born in Liverpool in 1880. The 1911 census shows that he worked as a railway clerk and lived with his wife and two young...

If you download the pdf file below, you will find a copy of a 1917 attestation form for the Liverpool Dock Battalion (copy created by...

TO BE INCREASED TO NEARLY 1000 MEN THE TIMES (LONDON) Wed. 14th April 1915 It...

THE PLAN OF SELECTION The Times (London) Sat 3rd April...