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FIRST WORLD WAR LIVERPOOL
A COLLECTION OF RESEARCH PROJECTS BY AMANDA TAYLOR
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THE BURUTU DEATH-ROLL
Liverpool Echo 9th Oct 1918 According to latest information it is feared that the loss of life in the disaster to the Liverpool liner...
LINER SUNK IN COLLISION
Litchfield Mercury 11 Oct 1918 It is feared that about 150 lives were lost in the sinking of the Burutu, which collided with another...
List of passengers and crew saved.
7th October 1918, Liverpool Echo THE LOST BURUTU LIST OF THE PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED The feared loss of life as a result of the sinking...
A Brave Liverpool Stewardess
Among the victims of the ill-fated Burutu was Mrs Doig, who had been residing at 17, Lynedock-street, Liverpool, and was a sister of Mrs...
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'...
30532 Private Arthur P Beattie
30532 Private Arthur P Beattie, 4th Battalion The King's Liverpool Regiment Identification The name given on the St James Memorial is...
Votes for Women 1918
Liverpool Daily Post 19 August 1918 VOTES FOR WOMEN THE POSITION OF UNDERAGE ARMY OFFICIALS A Wallasey magistrate has raised an...
Keeping the children safe...
Liverpool Echo 21 August 1914 As long as William Howard didn't make another false claim of being old enough to join the army, he should...
Standing in for husbands - pub landladies 1916
09 August 1916 - Liverpool Echo - Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Recruitment for the W.A.A.C.'s/Q.M.A.A.C's - 1918
Full Text from The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Aug 13, 1918; pg. 9; Issue 41867. WOMEN "PALS" BATTALION 5000 FOR THE AMERICAN...
Recruiting Women Engineers 1917
26 September 1917 - Liverpool Echo - Liverpool, Lancashire, England "A thousand women are wanted at once to train for engineering and...
Recruitment of Women for Munitions Work
Posters recruiting women to the workforce. Images of women in munitions factories.
Private George Ashbrooke Brewer, Royal Fusiliers.
George Ashbrooke Brewer was born in Pendleton, Manchester in 1884 and baptised on 26th September that year in the Primitive Methodist...
Sapper John Boswell, Royal Engineers
John Boswell was born in Liverpool in 1885, the the son of Thomas Boswell, a boiler-maker from Cheshire, and his wife Elizabeth. John...
Rifleman William James Blundell, 6th KLR
William James Blundell was born in Liverpool around January 1883, the son of William James Blundell (Book keeper) and Frances Elizabeth...
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