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1st Battalion, Kings Regiment (Liverpool)



12th Aug 1914 1st Kings Liverpool and 2nd South Staffords embark for France  The 1st Battalion, King’s Liverpool Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, embarked onboard the SS. Cawdor Castle at Southampton and set sail for Le Harve at 8:00 pm.

13th Aug 1914 1st Kings Liverpool and 2nd South Staffords arrive in France  The 1st Battalion, King’s Liverpool Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, disembark from the SS. Cawdor Castle at Le Harve to a joyous welcome. They march from Le Harve Docks to their entraining point, boarding the train which arrived at 2:00 pm.

21st Aug 1914 On the March

22nd Aug 1914 On the March

23rd Aug 1914 On the March

24th Aug 1914 Withdrawal

5th Sep 1914 On the March

6th Sep 1914 Brigade in Reserve

8th Sep 1914 River Crossed

9th Sep 1914 Advance

10th Sep 1914 In Action

14th Sep 1914 Advance

15th Sep 1914 Line Extended

17th Sep 1914 Attack

18th Sep 1914 Shelling

20th Sep 1914 Under Shellfire

26th Sep 1914 Holding the Line

3rd Oct 1914 Order

6th Oct 1914 Digging Trenches

7th Oct 1914 Frequent Shelling

8th Oct 1914 Trench Work

15th Oct 1914 On the March

17th Oct 1914 On the Move

21st Oct 1914 On the March  location map

27th Oct 1914 In Action

31st Oct 1914 In Action

1st Nov 1914 Reliefs

28th Nov 1914 Mud Larks

23rd Jan 1915 Reliefs

3rd Feb 1915 Reliefs  location map

4th of February 1915 Chicken Sentries

7th Feb 1915 Reliefs

11th Feb 1915 Reliefs Complete

15th Feb 1915 Reliefs

19th Feb 1915 Reliefs

20th Feb 1915 Trench Raid

23rd Feb 1915 Reliefs

3rd Mar 1915 Reliefs

7th Mar 1915 Reliefs

10th Mar 1915 Diversionary attack  location map

10th Mar 1915 Attack Made

16th Mar 1915 Concert

25th Mar 1915 In the Line

25th Mar 1915 Reliefs  location map

29th Mar 1915 Reliefs

7th Apr 1915 Reliefs

15th Apr 1915 Reliefs

19th Apr 1915 Reliefs Complete  location map

23rd April 1915 R.E. Officer visited H.Q. and gave work to be done.

24th Apr 1915 Reliefs Complete

28th Apr 1915 Reliefs

1st May 1915 Reliefs

16th May 1915 Reliefs  location map

23rd Jun 1915 Reliefs

27th Jun 1915 Reliefs

1st Jul 1915 Reliefs  location map

29th July 1915 Reliefs

21st Sep 1915 Orders  location map

25th Sep 1915 Attack Made  location map

1st Oct 1915 In the Line

3rd Oct 1915 Reliefs

29th Nov 1915 Bombardment  location map

30th Nov 1915 Reliefs

7th Dec 1915 Reliefs  location map

6th Jan 1916 Supplies  location map

21st of May 1917 Quiet Night  location map

29th May 1917 Reliefs  location map

4th Jan 1918 In Reserve

5th Jan 1918 In Reserve

6th Jan 1918 In Reserve

7th Jan 1918 Training

8th Jan 1918 Enemy Aircraft

9th Jan 1918 Snow

10th Jan 1918 Snow

11th Jan 1918 Poor Weather

12th Jan 1918 Training

13th Jan 1918 Snow and Frost

14th Jan 1918 Training

15th Jan 1918 Training

16th Jan 1918 Bad Weather

17th Jan 1918 Poor Weather

19th Jan 1918 Orders

20th Jan 1918 Orders

21st Jan 1918 Heavy Rain

24th Jan 1918 In the Line

25th Jan 1918 Artillery Active  location map

26th Jan 1918 Orders  location map

27th Jan 1918 Fog

28th Jan 1918 Artillery Active  location map

29th Jan 1918 Artillery Active

30th Jan 1918 Artillery Active

31st Jan 1918 Thick Mist

1st Feb 1918 Trenches Improved

2nd Feb 1918 Trenches Improved

3rd Feb 1918 Orders

4th Feb 1918 Shelling

5th Feb 1918 Warmer

6th Feb 1918 Orders

7th Feb 1918 Fraternisation

8th Feb 1918 Quiet

9th Feb 1918 Reorganisation

10th Feb 1918 Shelling

11th Feb 1918 Quiet

12th Feb 1918 Quiet

13th Feb 1918 Some Shelling

14th Feb 1918 Patrols  location map

15th Feb 1918 Artillery Active

16th Feb 1918 Artillery Active

17th Feb 1918 Enemy Aircraft  location map

18th Feb 1918 Misty  location map

19th Feb 1918 Quiet  location map

20th Feb 1918 Gas Shells  location map

21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation  location map

22nd Feb 1918 Patrols

23rd Feb 1918 Shelling  location map

24th Feb 1918 Shelling  location map

25th Feb 1918 Shelling  location map

26th Feb 1918 Artillery Active  location map

27th Feb 1918 Artillery Active

28th Feb 1918 Shelling  location map

1st Mar 1918 Raids  location map

2nd Mar 1918 Snow

3rd Mar 1918 Patrols  location map

4th Mar 1918 Quiet  location map

5th Mar 1918 Patrols  location map

6th Mar 1918 17th Royal Fusiliers go into the line  17th Royal Fusiliers go into the Front Line Lavacquerie to relieve 1st Kings Regt.

6th Mar 1918 Gas  location map

7th Mar 1918 Enemy Active  location map

8th Mar 1918 Enemy Active  location map

9th Mar 1918 Mist

10th Mar 1918 Enemy Active

11th Mar 1918 Gas

12th Mar 1918 Gas

13th Mar 1918 Raids

14th Mar 1918 Artillery Active

15th Mar 1918 Intense Fire

16th Mar 1918 Trench Raid  location map

17th Mar 1918 Patrols  location map

18th Mar 1918 Raids  location map

19th Mar 1918 Patrols

20th Mar 1918 Reliefs

21st Mar 1918 Arrangements  location map

21st Mar 1918 In Action  location map

22nd Mar 1918 Fighting Withdrawal  location map

22nd Mar 1918 Messages

23rd Mar 1918 Messages  location map

23rd Mar 1918 Fighting Withdrawal  location map

24th Mar 1918 Messages  location map

24th Mar 1918 In Defence  location map

25th Mar 1918 Fighting Withdrawal  location map

26th Mar 1918 Fighting Withdrawal  location map

27th Mar 1918 In Defence  location map

27th Mar 1918 Moves  location map

31st Mar 1918 Shelling

14th Jul 1918 Trench Raid

14th Aug 1918 Raid

4th Sep 1918 Advance  location map

16th September 1918 Battalion marched to trenches North of Havrincourt

27th Sep 1918 Orders  location map

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Want to know more about 1st Battalion, Kings Regiment (Liverpool)?


There are:5390 items tagged 1st Battalion, Kings Regiment (Liverpool) available in our Library

  These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.


Those known to have served with

1st Battalion, Kings Regiment (Liverpool)

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Blake John. Pte. (d.10th Mar 1915)
  • Blakeley Ernest. Pte. (d.21st Dec 1914)
  • Bradburn Anthony. Pte. (d.9th Sep 1916)
  • Brown William. Pte. (d.10th Mar 1915)
  • Cannon Frederick James. A/Sgt. (d.10th Mar 1915)
  • Garner Edward. Pte. (d.8th Aug 1916)
  • Gilleeney John. Pte.
  • Goff MC. Charles Edward. Lt.Col. (d.8th Aug 1916)
  • Greenfield Thomas Alexander. Pte. (d.29th September 1918)
  • Howlett Thomas. Pte. (d.13th Jan 1915)
  • McGarry Joseph. Pte (d.19 May 1915)
  • McGarry Joseph. Pte. (d.19th May 1915)
  • Moore Joseph. L/Cpl.
  • O'Neill Enoch. Pte.
  • Oneill Enoch. Pte.
  • Ross Joseph Francis. Pte
  • Shepherd Henry. Pte. (d.7th Jul 1916)
  • Squires James Albert. Pte.
  • Tongue J.. Pte. (d.8th Jan 1917)
  • Tregidgo Donald Thomas. Pte.
  • Tunney William. Pte. (d.6th Jan 1915)
  • Tunney William. Pte. (d.6th Jan 1915)
  • Walsh Bertram. Pte. (d.3rd January 1919)

All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List

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  Pte. Donald Thomas Tregidgo 1st Btn. Kings (Liverpool) Regiment

My father, Donald Tregidgo served from the August 1914 Mons campaign through to the Russian Archangel Force in 1919. During that time he said he only slept in a proper bed whilst hospitalised with wounds.

He served as an ARP warden throughout WW2 and was very upset when I went off to serve in Korea.

Chris Tregidgo






  Pte. Anthony Bradburn 9th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.9th Sep 1916)

Casualty report which was in the Manchester evening news 21st Sept 1916. Private Anthony Bradburn (24), of 76 Market-street, died of wounds on 9th of September 1916, exactly a month after joining his regiment. He worked for Messrs. Cooke, Smith, and Co. He had an older brother who was killed nine months earlier, and another brother who is disabled.

Kenneth Lamb






  Pte. Joseph McGarry 1st Battalion Kings (Liverpool) Regiment (d.19th May 1915)

Joseph McGarry was born in Liverpool 1886, he attested in March 1903 at the age of 17.

Joseph is the younger son of my Great Grandfather Patrick McGarry and Sarah Ann Farrell and the younger brother of my grandfather Thomas Patrick McGarry who was lost at sea on the SS Laurentic on the 25th of January 1917 along with 353 other souls.







  Pte. Enoch Oneill 1st Btn. King's (Liverpool) Regiment

Enoch Oneill is my great grandad who served in the 1st battalion King's (Liverpool) Regiment. Enoch married my great grandmother Mary Blake in 1909 and they had two daughters and a son. Grandad served and was then honourably discharged with a war injury. He received the silver star medal.

After the Army grandad went to work as a coal heaver in Leigh, Lancashire. He died in 1939 and is buried in Leigh cametery. God bless you and sleep tight grandad xxxx.

Cheryl Oneill






  Pte. Bertram Walsh 1st Garrison Btn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment) (d.3rd January 1919)

Private Walsh was 35 when he died and is buried in the Igatpuri Cemetery in India, Grave 381.

S Flynn






  Pte. James Albert Squires 1st Btn. Kings (Liverpool) Regiment

James Albert Squires was my maternal grandfather. He joined 1st Kings Liverpool and entered France on 7th of March 1915 and saw most of the War on or around the Somme. He received the 15 Star and the 3 Commemorative War Medals. He was a private throughout the War. After sustaining injuries, he re-enlisted to support the Pals. He survived the War and lived until 1966 in Ramsgate, Kent, England with his family.

Nigel






  Pte Joseph Francis Ross 6th Btn Kings Regiment (Liverpool)

Joseph Ross

Joseph Ross served with 6th Btn, Kings Regiment (Liverpool).

Mark Fuller






  Pte Joseph McGarry 1st Btn King's (Liverpool Regiment) (d.19 May 1915)

Joseph was the son of Mrs Martha Jessop of Everton, Liverpool. He was killed in France in 1915 and was buried at Le Touret.

Alan Bennett






  Lt.Col. Charles Edward Goff MC. 1st Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment (d.8th Aug 1916)

Charles Goff was the youngest son of the late John Crosbie Goff. He was killed at Guillemont, France on the 8th of August 1916.

s flynn






  Pte. Henry Shepherd 1st Btn. The King's (Liverpool) Regiment (d.7th Jul 1916)

Henry Shepherd served with the 1st Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment during WW1 and was killed in action on the 7th July 1916, aged 41. He is buried in the Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension in France. He was the son of the late John and Margaret Shepherd, of Liverpool Henry left a widow Alice Shepherd and eight children the youngest aged three years, residing at 62 Heyworth Street, Liverpool.

S Flynn






  Pte. J. Tongue 1st Btn. King's (Liverpool Regiment) (d.8th Jan 1917)

Pte. J. Tongue served with the King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st Battalion,He was executed for desertion on 8th January 1917 and is buried in Agenvillers Churchyard in Somme, France in the N.E. Corner

s flynn






  Pte. William Brown 1st Btn. King's (Liverpool) Regiment (d.10th Mar 1915)

William Brown was born in Dublin and enlisted in Wrexham, Denbighshire.

s flynn






  Pte. Ernest Blakeley 1st Btn. King's (Liverpool) Regiment (d.21st Dec 1914)

Ernest Blakeley was born in Cardiff, he was the Husband of E. J. Blakeley, of 13, Bloomfield Park, South Circular Rd., Dublin. He enlisted in Warrington Ernest died age 27 in France and is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery.

s flynn






  Pte. John Gilleeney 4th (Extra Reserve) Kings Liverpool

John Gilleeney served in the 1st Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment (KLR) during the Boer War and was awarded a South Africa medal for his involvement in the Defence of Ladysmith. He was injured and was invalided out in 1901. After the Boer War John Gilleeney remained as a reserve with the KLR and at outbreak of WW1, at the age of 44, joined the 4th Battalion (extra reserve). The movements of the 4th Bn are listed below:
  • 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion
  • August 1914 : in Seaforth, Liverpool.
  • 6 March 1915 : landed at Le Havre and attached to Sirhind Brigade, Lahore Division of Indian Corps.
  • 10 November 1915 : transferred to 137th Brigade, 46th (North Midland) Division.
  • 3 December 1915 : attached to 56th and 58th Brigades, 19th (Western) Division.
  • 27 February 1916 : transferred to 98th Brigade, 33rd Division.
The 4th battalion was involved in some of the worst fighting of the war and John was injured and was unable to continue fighting. He returned to the front in the Labour Corps and finally given Honorary Discharg on the 6th March 1919. John often spoke about his time in the Boer War but never spoke about his time in the 1st World War.

Phil Lomax






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