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Liverpool Teachers and Military
Service
Since
Alderman Alsop announced
to the
Education Committee that upwards of 120 local teachers had joined H.M.
Forces, this list has been supplemented by fresh enlistments. Some
teachers have taken commissioned rank, and many are non-commissioned
officers. Compared with other local education authorities, Liverpool
teachers have done very well, and it is a pleasure to acknowledge the
encouragement given by the City Council to the municipal service in
respect of enlistment. Teachers above the military age have, however,
been disappointed of the promise held out by circular 872 of the Board
of Education. This circular asked for further enlistments for active
service and for civilian instructors of drill and physical exercises, a
position which teachers are well qualified to fill.
Correspondence with the Board, however, showed that the War Office were
not as eager to obtain these instructors as the circular seemed to
imply, and we believe many applicants have not succeeded in obtaining
such posts, while many others have found the conditions of service
different from what they were led to expect by the circular.
A further circular now explains that
these
instructors are only required in towns where a local battalion is being
raised or at large camps, and it is natural to suppose that even where
these conditions obtain fully enlisted teachers are largely called upon
to become instructors. This is probably the reason why for Liverpool no
civilian instructors have been appointed. We believe that half-a-dozen
or so are about to be accepted for service in Blackpool.
The shortage of teachers in Liverpool
schools
consequent upon enlistments have made heavy demands upon those who
remain. The number of “supply” teachers is never
very
large, and even if we add those who come into service on 1st December
the deficiency is not made up. Head teachers find themselves tied to a
class, class teachers find their classes enlarged, lady teachers find
that they are put into boys’ departments. Much of this
disarrangement was inevitable, and the burden of it is no doubt being
cheerfully borne. None the less, it is incumbent upon the local
education authority to make provision to cover the shortage as far as
possible for the sake of the children.
It is far too early to consider the
effects of the
war on education. That will have a detrimental effect is undoubted, but
that the effect shall be as little felt as possible will be the aim of
the whole educational service. One effect, however, is already
apparent. We have taken an appreciable step nearer to the time when
primary schools will be staffed almost entirely by women. There is
little doubt that some of the 5,000 teachers who have enlisted will not
again enter the schools. There will be casualties among them, and some
have taken commissions in the Army. As is
well known, the
Board of Education was, before war broke out, faced with a deplorable
shortage of teachers of both sexes, but particularly of men.
The
position is now still more serious, and all the administrative skill of
the board and authorities will be required to remedy the situation. As
Mr Goldstone observes in this month’s educational supplement
of
the “Times,” “The remedy is obvious, but
will be
expensive. That the cost must be faced is a national duty as insistent
as securing a just and permanent settlement of the present
war.”
Councillor F.
T.
Richardson is to be congratulated on the choice of the first resolution
submitted by him to the City Council. From his experience on the
Education committee he evidently felt that there was some doubt as to
the interpretation that officials of the Corporation might place on the
resolution which promised the continuation of full salary to officials
who had joined his Majesty’s forces, and who had gained
promotion
since entering the King’s service. Sir Charles
Petries’s
full and ready acceptance of the reading which will ensure that the man
promoted for meritorious service shall receive the financial gain which
accompanies this, and that it shall not be commandeered for the relief
of the rates, is, we feel sure, in complete accord with public feeling
in the city. It must have been with particular pleasure that Sir
Charles was able to show that not only had Liverpool led the way in
this matter, but that there had never been any intention of the Finance
Committee to act otherwise than wholeheartedly. There are still
subsidiary decisions affecting small sections of the officials to be
made, but after the Council meeting we feel sure some just and liberal
spirit will prevail.
(Liverpool Courier 5th Dec 1914)
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Casualty
Name |
Rank, Service No.
and Regiment |
School |
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Birkenhead
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Cecil
Adler BEVERLEY |
Cpl #337395 RAMC (Aliens Link)
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Higher Elementary
School |
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Edward
CONCANNON
(Ranks of Jones and Concannon have been transposed in error, also the
J.H initials incorrect) |
CSM
#17800 The King's (Liverpool Regt)
St
Edwards
School Memorial
St
Clare's RC Church
Catholic
Institute School
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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St Annes RCS, Rock
Ferry |
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William
Henry JONES
(b. 1890 Liverpool, mother Eliz.)
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Pte #266131 South
Lancs Regt |
Rock Ferry CS |
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George
McGUINNESS
|
Pte #16665
The
King's (Liverpool Regt)
University
of Chester
Harrowby
Footballer Killed |
St Lawrence RCS |
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Thomas
McNAUGHT
|
Pte #3512 The
King's (Liverpool Scottish Regt)
Thomas
McNaught by Linda Trim |
Rock Ferry CS |
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Herbert
PALMER
(b. 1893 Carnforth, son of Emily Palmer, West Bromwich) |
Rifleman #242869 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Higher Elementary
School |
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Cyprian
Thomas PEARSON
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2/Lt Royal Field
Artillery |
Woodchurch Road CS |
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Richard
Harold SKINNER
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Pte #25530 The
King's (Liverpool Regt)
Silver War Badge
(Death not as a result of military service)
University
of Chester
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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Brassey St CS |
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Bootle
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John
Coates BELL
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Pte #6062 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
St Mary's Ch.S
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Henry
LARGE
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Gunner #777023 Royal
Field Artillery |
Christ's Ch.S |
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Arthur
Ingman ROWLAND
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Gunner #79971 Royal
Garrison Artillery |
Hawthorn Road CS |
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Chester
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George
Ewart BEVAN
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Cpl #33174 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Holy Trinity Ch.S |
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[Photo
- The Flint Memorial]
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Flintshire
Memorial (George Beavan)
Flintshire
Memorial (George Bevan)
Buckley
Memorial
Liverpool Pals Memorial(awaiting) |
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Frederick
BISHOP (MC)
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Capt Cheshire Regt |
College S. |
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Wallasey
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Arthur
Edwin CANNELL |
Pte #355515 The
King's (Liverpool Scottish Regt) |
St Mary's Ch.S |
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[Facebook - Ramsey Town
Commissioners]
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Alfred
Peter CHANDLER
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Pte #44175
Worcester Regt
History
of Wallasey |
Riverside CS |
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George
COLEMAN
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Cpl #3221 The
King's (Liverpool Scottish Regt) |
Poulton CS |
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Frederick
Augustine DUNN
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Rifleman #6018
Leinster Regt |
Sommerville CS |
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John
William HARDING
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Pte #3292 The
King's (Liverpool Scottish Regt) |
St Mary's Day Schools,
Liscard |
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William
George MORRIS
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Pte #3651 The
King's (Liverpool Scottish Regt) |
Wesleyan S |
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Frank
Woodley ROWE
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Pte #W/638
Cheshire Regt |
Manor Road CS |
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Philip
Stanley WILSON
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2/Lt Royal Welsh
Fusiliers |
Somerville CS |
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Warrington
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John
Henry FOULKES
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Pioneer #165731 Royal
Engineers
Cheshire
Roll of Honour |
Evelyn St CS |
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Maurice
John GLOVER
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Warrant Schoolmaster
RN, died on HMS
Glatton |
Parochial S |
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Miss
May WESTWELL
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Asst
Administrator Queen Mary's Army Auxilliary Corps
St
Barnabas CE School |
Evelyn St CS |
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[Photo - St Barnabas CE
School]
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George
Arthur WHITFIELD
[Photo - University of
Chester]
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Lance Cpl #17133
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regt
University
of Chester |
Arpley St U.S |
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Widnes
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Arthur
IRELAND
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Pte #3376 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Warrington Rd CS |
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Wigan
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Frederick
Vose HEATON
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Pte #38163 The
King's (Liverpool Regt)
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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St Thomas' Ch.S |
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John
Bamforth JONES |
Lance Cpl #18117
Royal Warwickshire Regt
(POW status not confirmed)
Upholland War Memorial |
St Catherine's Ch.S |
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William
Edward McGRATH
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Cpl #4927 Royal
Fusiliers |
St William's RCS |
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Liverpool
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Percy
John AUGER
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Pte #357694 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Holt Sec.S |
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William
ASHPLANT
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Gunner #92457 Tank
Corps |
Park Hill CS |
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Eric
Trezise Baker
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2/Lt Royal Flying Corps |
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Frederick
BOTTOMLEY |
2/Lt Royal Welsh
Fusiliers
Died when HMT
Transylvania torpedoed |
St Alphonsus Back Gt
RCS |
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Harold
Launcelot BRETLAND
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Pte #46633 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) (Aliens Link) |
Anfield Road CS |
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George
Percy Stephenson BROWN
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Pte #49445 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) (Aliens Link) |
Westminster Road CS |
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John
Stanley CARR
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Lt Loyal North
Lancashire Regt |
Gwladys St CS |
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Alfred
Joseph CORNISH
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Cpl #21469 The
King's (Liverpool Regt)
Chester
College
St Anne's Church Stanley
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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Birchfield Road CS |
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Sydney
Howard CUNNINGHAM
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Cpl #2908 The
Northumbrian Army Cycle Corps
Bede College, Durham |
51 Kelso Rd, Fairfield |
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P.DAVIES (Not found,
best fit next row) |
Lieutenant |
Birchfield Road CS |
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Lindsay
Ramsay DAVIES |
2/Lt The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Worksop
College |
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William
DUFFY
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Pte #48851 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Our Lady RCS, Eldon St |
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J.EDWARDS (Not found
yet)
Possibilties from 1911 Census:-
Joseph Edwards b. 1891 St Helens. Schoolteacher in Wigan.
James Edwards b. 1890 Norwich, Norfolk. Schoolteacher in Northwich,
Cheshire |
Pte Staffordshire
(regt or region ?) |
Hey Green Road CS |
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James
Herbert HAGUE
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Lt Loyal
Manchester Regt |
Birchfield Road CS |
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Albert
Ernest HICKLING |
Lance Cpl #36654
The King's (Liverpool Regt) (Aliens Link)
Corbie
Memorial
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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St Lawrence N.S,
Kirkdale |
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George
Willacy ISAAC
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CSM
#339009 Royal Army Medical Corps (Aliens Link) |
Mersey St RCS |
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Cecil
Charles Humphreys LEWIN (MC)
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Capt.
Somerset Light Infantry, W/O2 King's Liverpool Regt. #21416 |
Queens Road CS |
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George
Joseph LIGHT
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2/Lt Royal
Garrison Artillery |
Our Lady Immaculate RCS |
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James
Keggan MADDRELL
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Lt Machine Gun
Corps |
Sec. School Bootle |
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Lewis
MOGRIDGE
(A nose dive from 500' whilst on artillery patrol nr.
Haute-Avesnes ) |
Lt Royal Air
Force, 2/Lt The King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Loraine St CS, Everton |
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Alfred PEARSON
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Cpl #16332 The
King's (Liverpool Regt)
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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Boaler St CS |
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Andrew
Brown TICKLE
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Lt The King's
(Liverpool Regt) |
St Margaret's HGS |
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Horace
TOLSON
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2/Lt Royal
Warwickshire Regt, Pte #1776 Royal Army
Medical Corps (Aliens Link) |
The Morrison CS |
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Fred
Hector WEDLAKE
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Rifleman #1753 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
St Margaret's N.S,
Anfield |
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James
Herbert WEIGHTS
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2/Lt Tank Corps (Aliens Link) |
54 Coltart Rd |
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Eric
Thomas WHITTLE
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2/Lt Manchester Regt |
Birchfield Road CS |
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Alfred
WILKINSON
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Cpl #113554 Royal
Engineers |
St Francis Xavier's S |
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James
Griffith WILLIAMS
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Lt Royal Welsh
Fusiliers (Aliens Link) |
Normal College, Bangor |
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John
Lloyd WILLIAMS |
Rifleman #2841 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Seaman's Orphanage |
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Ormskirk
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Herbert
TAYLOR
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2/Lt Lancashire
Fusiliers |
United Charity S |
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Runcorn
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William
FOWLES
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Bombadier #76627 Royal
Garrison Artillery |
Balfour Road Higher
Std CS |
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Richard
NEWPORT
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Sjt #15793
Cheshire Regt |
Parish Ch. S |
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Herbert
Abram YEARSLEY
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2/Lt Royal Engineers |
18 Leinster Gardens |
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Bristol
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John
Scriven HANSFORD
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Lt The King's
(Liverpool Regt) |
Merrywood Sec.S |
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Burnley
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Ernest
GREENWOOD
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Lance Cpl #51744
The King's (Liverpool Regt)
Brunel
University London
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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Red Lion St WS |
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Thomas
Walker OPENSHAW
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Lance Cpl #48941
The King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Abel St CS |
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Bury
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Ronald
Charles LOWE
[Photo - Brunel
University]
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Lt The King's
(Liverpool Regt), #6860 Inns of Court Regt
Brunel
University |
Municipal Sec.S |
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Coalville(Leics)
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John
THOMSON
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2/Lt The King's
(Liverpool Regt) |
Measham CS |
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Hereford
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Gilbert
RIMMER
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Rifleman #204233 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Norton Cannon NS |
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Houghton-le-Spring(Durham)
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George
CRAWFORD
[Photo - Universities at
War]
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Pte #57779 The
King's (Liverpool Regt)
Universities
at War
Durham
Record Office
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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New Penshaw CS |
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Thomas
Bowerbank PYBURN
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Pte #57824 The
King's (Liverpool Regt)
North East Memorials
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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Lyon's CS |
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Hull
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George
STAINFORTH
[Photo - Gloucester
University]
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2/Lt The King's
(Liverpool Regt)
University
of Gloucester |
Selby St West CS |
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Ilford(London)
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Joseph
DINES
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2/Lt The King's
(Liverpool Regt) |
Highlands St CS |
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[Image - Liverpool
1892-1986 by Brian Pead]
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Manchester
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John
PARKER
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Pte
#7939 Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry, Lance Cpl
#49532 The
King's (Liverpool Regt)
Liverpool
Pals Memorial
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St Chad's R.C.S |
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James
Louis RILEY
b. 1894 Prestwich James Lewis Riley
London Gazette/MIC index James Lewis Riley
Probate James Louis Riley 1919 |
2/Lt The King's
(Liverpool Regt) |
St Chad's R.C.S |
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Norman
VERNON
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Pte #12661 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
St Wilfred's ChS |
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Nelson and Colne
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Frank
ASHWORTH
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Pte #27452 The
King's (Liverpool Regt) |
West St CS |
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Southport
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Frederick
William LOVERIDGE
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Lance Sjt #2408
The King's (Liverpool Regt)
St
Helens Roll of Honour |
Holy Trinity N.S |
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Wensleydale
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George
BARGH
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2/Lt
The King's (Liverpool Regt) |
Hawes
CS |
The
Gallant
Schoolteachers
from the locality of Merseyside
