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The King's (Liverpool Regiment) |
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Titles |
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post 1881 |
| 1st
Battalion, 8th (The King's)
Regiment of Foot |
1st
Battalion, The King's
(Liverpool Regiment) |
| 2nd
Battalion, 8th (The King's)
Regiment of Foot |
2nd
Battalion, The King's
(Liverpool Regiment) |
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Earliest recognised formation: |
1685, when raised as The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot. Titled
the 8th Regiment of Foot in 1751. |
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| Motto: |
Nec Aspera Terrent (Difficulties be Damned) |
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Regimental Journal: |
The Kingsman |
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| WWI: |
Battle Honours; 58 |
Victoria Crosses; 6 |
Died; 14,200 |
| WWII: |
Battle Honours; 13 |
Victoria Crosses; 0 |
Died; ??? |
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| Amalgamated: |
1958, with The Manchester Regiment to form
The King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) |
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2nd Battalion was operational 1804-1814. ( disbanded 1815, not reformed
again until
1857) |
Egypt
Campaign 1801, and the Capture of Martinique 1809 1st
Battalion |
Military General Service Medal.
1793 - 1814 |
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clasp: |
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113 |
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13 as 2 clasp medals |
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Battle Honours: Martinique, and Sphinx superscribed Egypt was permitted to
be borne on the colours |
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2nd Battalion reformed 1857 | | |
Indian Mutiny 1857
1st Battalion |
Indian Mutiny Medal. 1857 -59 |
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....none.... |
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total |
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379 |
598 |
351* |
1017 |
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*40 as single R of L clasps |
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Battle
Honours:
Delhi, Lucknow |
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Afghan War 1878-1880
2nd Battalion |
Afghanistan Medal
1878 -1880 |
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...none... |
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total medals |
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455 |
1015 |
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Battle Honour: Afghanistan 1878-80 |
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South African War 1899 - 1902 or "Boer War" 1st
Battalion, Oct 1899- end of the war |
Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with or without the
King's South Africa Medal 1901 - 1902 |
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Common clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State,
Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; also: |
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Casualties: |
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Officers |
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KIA & DOW / DOD |
Wounded |
Missing / POW |
KIA & DOW |
Death from disease |
Wounded |
Missing / POW |
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1st Battalion |
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VCs: 3; Heaton Knight Hampton (see
VCs of the Anglo-Boer War page)
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Battle Honours: Defence of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902 |
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The Great War 1914 - 1918
( 49 battalions; 26 served overseas:- ) |
Generally awarded the
British War Medal &
Victory Medal, men overseas prior to 1/1/1916 also a
1914 or
1914-15 Star. |
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Battalion → |
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2* |
4 |
1/5 |
1/6 |
1/7 |
1/8 |
1/9 |
1/10 |
2/5 |
2/6 |
2/7 |
Extra
Reserve |
Rifle |
Irish |
Scottish |
Rifle |
date of first overseas service.
(first theatre red
x ) |
13/8
1914 |
4/8
1914 |
6/3
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22/2
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25/2
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8/3
1915 |
3/5
1915 |
13/3
1915 |
2/11
1914 |
?/2
1917 |
14/2
1917 | ?/2
1917 |
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Flanders |
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Gallipoli |
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Egypt & Palestine |
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Macedonia |
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India |
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Star
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1914 or 1914-15 |
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died
Extracted from : "Soldiers / Officers
Died in the Great War" (consider approximate - in addition the
regiment as a whole lost at least an additional 139 officers who
are recorded with 'battalion not shown', or with battalions
not shown here, or who we have not yet allocated a
battalion.) |
1402 |
57 |
1039 |
920 |
938 |
1012 |
913 |
732 |
1057 |
2nd line territorial unit figures are included with their
respective 1st line battalion figure |
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* 2nd Battalion in India at the start where it
remained for the duration. |
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Regular |
Territorial Force |
New Armies |
Garrison. |
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Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19
30 officers and 118 men of the King's Liverpool Regiment also qualified for this
medal. |
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VCs: 6, Jones Procter Tombs
Baxter Counter Reid (Reid attached to the
6th Loyal North Lancashire)
see King's Liverpool Regiment VC page
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Battle Honours: Retreat from Mons; Marne
1914; Aisne 1914; Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917; Festubert 1915; Loos;
Somme 1916, 1918; Arras 1917, 1918; Scarpe 1917, 1918; Cambrai 1917,
1918. Mons; Langemarck 1914, 1917; Gheluvelt; Nonne
Bosschen; Neuve Chapelle; Gravenstafel; St Julien; Frezenberg;
Bellewaarde; Aubers; Albert 1916, 1918; Bazentin; Delville Wood;
Guillemont; Ginchy; FlersCourcelette; Morval; Le Transloy; Ancre
1916; Bapaume 1917, 1918; Arleux; Pilckem; Menin Road; Polygon Wood;
Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; St Quentin; Rosières; Avre; Lys;
Estaires; Messines 1918; Bailleul; Kemmel; Béthune; Scherpenberg;
Drocourt-Quéant; Hindenburg Line; Epéhy; Canal du Nord; St Quentin
Canal; Selle; Sambre; France and Flanders 1914-18; Doiran 1917;
Macedonia 1915-18; NW Frontier India 1915; Archangel 1918-19. |
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The Great War 1914 - 1918 |
continued......... |
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2/8 |
2/9 |
2/10 |
11 |
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Scottish |
Pioneers |
1st
City |
2nd
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3rd
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4th
City |
Garrison Guard*** |
Garrison |
Garrison | date of first overseas service.
(first theatre red x ) |
?/2
1917 | ?/2
1917 | ?/2
1917 | 30/5
1915 | 27/5
1915 | 27/9
1915 | 5/9
1915 | 7/11
1915 | ?/11
1915 | ?/11
1915 | ?/11
1915 | 7/5
1918 | ?/9
1915 | ?/3
1916 | | France & Flanders |
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see above |
2nd line territorial unit figures are included with their
respective 1st line battalion figure |
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1260 |
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820 |
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*Reduced to Cadre and returned to England
30/6/18. Reformed and sent to Archangel 11/10/18 |
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**Absorbed 1/1 Lancashire Hussars 25/9/1917 |
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***This title dropped July 1918 |
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Title now changed to "The King's Regiment (Liverpool)" | | |
WW2 1939 - 1945 |
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Battalion → |
1st |
2nd |
5th |
8th
Irish |
13th |
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campaign ↓ |
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France and
Belgium 1940.
(Dunkirk ) |
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North Africa & Middle East |
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Burma |
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Sicily / Italy |
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Notes. |
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In India at the start. Served Burma 1944-45, "Special Force" Columns
number 81 and 82 under 77th Indian Infantry Brigade. (50% of
Personnel formed 15th Btn. (King's) Parachute Regiment on 1/3/45) |
In Gibraltar at the start. Came under 1st & 2nd Gibraltar Brigade
(2nd reorganised as "28th Infantry Brigade" 1/12/43).
13/3/41 to 31/8/45. Served Gibraltar, Egypt, Italy & Greece. |
UK until D-Day.
21st Army Group
D-Day Landers.5th and 6th Beach Groups, under command of 3rd
Infantry Division for the assault phase. |
UK until D-Day.
21st Army Group
D-Day Landers.7th and 8th Beach Groups, under command of 3rd
Canadian Division for the assault phase. |
Sent from the UK to India arriving 31/1/42. 77th Indian
Infantry Brigade, 26/6/42 - 10/9/43. Including Long Range
Penetration, 1st Wingate Expedition 10/2/43 (Back to India 1/7/43
where it remained) |
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WW2 Stars common to the Battalion. (excluding
39-45 star
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Key: A =
Africa, P =
Pacific, B =
Burma, I =
Italy, F&G =
France and Germany |
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Most also entitled to the
1939-45 War Medal and many the
Defence Medal |
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Battle Honours: Normandy Landing; Cassino II; Trasimene Line;
Tuori; Capture of Forli; Rimini Line; Athens; Chindits 1943;
Chindits 1944. North-West Europe 1944; Italy 1944-5; Greece
1944-5; Burma 1943-4. |
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Korean War 1950 - 1953 1st Battalion
(Sept 1952 - Oct 1953) |
Queen's Korea Medal | | number: |
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| Casualties / Honours and Awards. (extracted from "The 38th Parallel" Peter Gaston: Pub A.D. Hamilton Glasgow 1976 and the separate POW roll compiled by the same individual ) |
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MBE | MC | MM |
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Battle Honours :
The Hook 1953; Korea 1952-3. |
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Selected Links |
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The Regimental Museum. (Located in ) |
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The 9th Battalion
King's Liverpool Regiment in the Great War. |
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Selected Bibliography; |
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Title |
Publisher |
| Cannon's Historical
Records Series |
Historical Record of The
Eighth, or, The King's Regiment of Foot; containing an
Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its
subsequent Services to 1844 118 pp. |
London: Parker, Furnivall
& Parker, 1844 |
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..................2nd
edition, with title Historical Record of The King's, or
Liverpool Regiment of Foot, containing . . . . to 1881, also
Succession Lists of the Officers who served in each of the
regimental ranks, with Biographical Notices and Summaries of
their War Services. 361 pp. |
London: Harrison &
Sons, 1883. |
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edition . . . to 1903; including Affiliated Militia and
Volunteer Battalions. 555pp. |
Enniskillen: William
Trimble, 1904. |
| T. R. Threlfall.
(Preface by the Earl of Derby. ) |
The Story of The King's
(Liverpool Regiment) formerly the Eighth Foot.. 215 pp. |
London: Offices of "
Country Life" [1917] |
| Everard Wyrall. |
The History of the King's
Regiment (Liverpool), 1914-1919. 3 volumes. |
London: Edward
Arnold & Co. [1928-35] |
| Lt.-Col. J. J. Burke
Gaffney |
The Story of the King's
Regiment, 1914-1948. 203 pp. |
Liverpool: printed by
Sharpe & Kellet Ltd., 1954 |
| Brig.-Gen. F. G. Stanley. |
The History of the 89th
Brigade, 1914-1918. [17th-20th Battalions The King's].
295 pp. |
Liverpool: "Daily Post,"
Printers, 1919. |
| Graham Maddocks. |
Liverpool Pals. 17th,
18th, 19th, 20th Battalions The King's (Liverpool Regiment).
263 pp. |
Leo Cooper. 1991. |
| Capt. C. E. Wurtzburg.
With a Foreword by Major-Gen. Sir R. W. R. Barnes. |
History of the 2/6th
(Rifle) Battalion "The King's" (Liverpool Regiment),
1914-1919, 368 pp. |
Printed for the Regimental
Committee by Gale & Polden Ltd., Aldershot, 1920 |
| Enos Herbert Glynne
Roberts |
The Story of the "9th
King's" in France. 134 pp. |
Liverpool: The Northern
Publishing Co. Ltd., 1922 |
| A. M. MacGilchrist |
The Liverpool Scottish,
1900-1919. 333 pp. |
Liverpool: Henry Young &
Sons, 1930 |
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Additional Bibliography for this
Page. |
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| Officers of the
Regiment. |
Unpublished rolls in
the care of the National Archives; WO 100/ etc. |
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Additional bibliography
same as Northumberland Fusiliers
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N.W. Frontier 1915
