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10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion, Kings Regiment (Liverpool)
10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion King's (Liverpool) Regiment, was a unit of the Territorial Force which had its HQ at 7 Fraser Street, Liverpool off London Road. It was made up of Companies A to H. They were serving with the South Lancashire Brigade, West Lancashire Division. They were mobilized for war and proceeded to France on the 2nd of November 1914 landing at Le Havre and joining 9th Brigade, 3rd Division. They took part in the Winter Operations of 1914-15 and on the 6th of January 1916 they transferred to 166th Brigade, in the newly reformed 55th (West Lancashire) Division in the Hallencourt area. On the 16th of February 1916 the Division relieved the French 88th Division south of Arras, they moved to The Somme in late July taking over a section of front line near the village of Guillemont. They were in action at the The Battle of Guillemont, The Battle of Ginchy, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette and The Battle of Morval. The Division moved to Flanders in october 1916 and took over the front line between Wieltje and Railway Wood. In 1917 they were in action at Pilkem Ridge and Menin Road Ridge during the Third Battle of Ypres. They moved south to Cambrai where they suffered very heavily during the German Counter Attacks on the 30th of November 1917. In the Spring of 1918 they were in action in the Battle of the Lys including the Defence of Givenchy on the 9th to the 17th of April. In October they took part in the Final Advance in Artois. After the Armistice they were ordered to advance through Belgium and occupy the Rhine bridgeheads, but these orders were with drawn and the Division was demobilised in Brussels between January and April 1919.
1st Dec 1914 Ploughing up the Fields
12th Dec 1914 Reliefs
15th Dec 1914 Reliefs
26th Dec 1914 Chocolate and Plum Pudding
12th Jan 1915 A Feast from Home
5th Feb 1915 Reliefs
9th Feb 1915 Reliefs
13th Feb 1915 Reliefs
1st Apr 1915 Lit Candles in the Square
4th Apr 1915 Reliefs
12th Jun 1915 Awards
12th June 1915 Orders Received
14th Jun 1915 Officer Recce
15th Jun 1915 On the March
15th Jun 1915 On the March 
15th June 1915 Preparations
16th Jun 1915 Liverpool Scottish in Action
16th Jun 1915 Attack Made
16th Jun 1915 Attack Made
16th Jun 1915 In Action
16th Jun 1915 Preparations
16th June 1915 Attack Made
17th Jun 1915 Division Praised
23rd Jul 1915 Instruction
25th Jul 1915 Instruction
30th Aug 1915 Echo!
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st November 1915 Football Match
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
20th Jun 1916 Quiet
20th Jun 1916 Reliefs
9th Aug 1916 Attack Made by Liverpool Scottish
10th Aug 1916 Reliefs
13th Aug 1916 Reliefs
22nd Oct 1916 Reliefs
6th Mar 1917 Reliefs
16th Mar 1917 Reliefs
6th Apr 1917 Reliefs
21st Sep 1917 In Action
22nd Sep 1917 Reliefs Complete
12th Oct 1917 Reliefs
1st Apr 1918 In the Front Line
8th Apr 1918 Preparing for Reliefs
9th Apr 1918 Enemy Attack
5th Sep 1918 Bands 
© IWM (Q 9459)
Massed bands of the 166th Brigade Near Bethune, 5th Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment, 10th (Scottish) Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment), 5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment.
15th Nov 1918 Thanksgiving Service
22nd February 1919 Battalion plays 10th Liverpool Scottish in 1st Round 5th Army Association Football
24th February 1919 Replay of match with Liverpool Scottish
27th February 1919 Battalion wins the 5th Army Cross Country Championship
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Those known to have served with10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion, Kings Regiment (Liverpool) during the Great War 1914-1918. - Carter Stanley Raymond. Cpl. (d.9th August 1916)
- Costain William Edward. Pte. (d.28th Apr 1915)
- Cunningham Robert Norval. Pte. (d.2nd June 1917)
- Donald David. Pte.
- English Wilfrid. L/Cpl, (d.1st Jan 1919)
- Faulkner Herbert Charles.
- Holt Eustace Addison. L/Cpl. (d.4th Oct 1916)
- Jarvis Frederick Gustave. Pte. (d.13th Aug 1916)
- Ker Dixon. CQMS
- Langwade John Willy. Pte.
- Lyon Samuel Ignatius. Pte. (d.20th Aug 1916)
- Marsh William. Pte. (d.22nd Sep 1917)
- McColl Donald Robert. CSM. (d.15th Dec 1918)
- Pedley John Willis. Cpl.
- Ryan William Joseph A.. Pte.
- Smith Arthur. Cpl. (d.30th Nov 1917)
- Smith Edward Martin. Pte
- Smith William. Pte.
- Stretch A. H.. 2nd Lt.
- Wahlers James. Pte. (d.25th April 1917)
- Williams John Owen. Pte. (d.31st July 1917)
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L/Cpl, Wilfrid English 1st/10th (Liverpool Scottish) Btn. Kings (Liverpool) Regiment (d.1st Jan 1919)  Wilfred English was a postal worker who volunteered early in 1916, training in Carnforth, Lancs before landing in France in April. He passed through Rouen and the battalion was stationed for a while near Amiens. By 19th April he wrote home to say they were under almost continuous fire and the star shells lit the sky like daylight.
On May 12th he was at rest after having "a rough time in the trenches". On June 10th "everything is clay and mud", and on 22nd there was "plenty of fireng at each others airoplanes" [sic].
By August Wilf was on the Somme. Fighting at Guillemont on 10th was a day he didn't want to describe but "will never forget". That night he volunteered to go out into No Man's Land to try to retrieve the wounded and the possessions of the dead. "Everywhere one looks he sees dead and injured". He believes he finds the body of his best friend (and cousin) but cannot be sure it is him in the darkness.
On 21st September he is wounded in the leg. Operated upon on 22nd he is repatriated in October to hospital in Birmingham, thence to Liverpool (the regimental HQ) before being discharged home to West Hartlepool.
In May 1917 he is back fighting, this time in Belgium, and having lost his L/Cpl rank (he may have been discharged during his convalescence and then volunteered again). The fighting is heavy "but not as bad as the Somme". Until he gets to Paschendaele where, on 19th, he writes home to say "I could tell you what we are going to do but it would be crossed out. Watch the papers". Perhaps as a result of all the losses among his regiment he is promoted to L/Cpl once again.
On 30th of November 1917 at Cambrai he is shot in the right hand and captured. Taken by the Germans first to Le Quesnoy, then on to PoW camp at Dulmen ("how dreary it is").
By March 1918 at the latest he is in PoW camp Parchim, where he is deployed working on a nearby farm. He starts to enjoy it. On August 11th "I am busy with the corn this month". Then "when I come home I am going to buy a farm (though where the cash will come from I don't know)". He tells his mother that by the time he gets home "You will find me an expert farmer".
He remained at Parchim until the Armistice and then awaited repatriation.
Spanish flu then swept through the barracks.
Wilf was taken to the Hut Hospital where he died at 9pm on New Year's Day 1919. He was 29.
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CQMS Dixon "Dickie" Ker 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment  This account was published in the the Lucton School (Herefordshire) magazine Vol. 8 no.24 April 1915. The author of the article is dixon ker, my grandfather, who wrote the letter which was edited for his old school magazine after he had been wounded on 6th of December 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres.
The Journey to the Trenches
On January 1st Dixon Ker wrote from the Military Hospital at Lakenham,Norwich, where he was convalescing, a letter from which the following are extracts.
We left Southampton on November 1st for Le Havre where we stood off all day on the 2nd till about 10.30 p.m., when we docked and slept aboard. The following morning we disembarked and had about four miles march to a camp where we spent the next night; leaving on the 4th we entrained at 7 p.m. for an unknown destination. The train journey was lovely; we were packed in cattle trucks with wooden seats, and as we were 30 in each truck we had to sleep in the same, it was a fair crush, what with rifles and packs but we had to make the best of it for about 24 hours when we arrived at St. Omer about 7.30 p.m. After being on fatigues, getting stores and transport ready for marching off it was close upon midnight before we left the station. The company that I am being detailed for baggage guard. We did not arrive at our billets about 5 miles away, till 2.30 a.m. owing to the bad state of the roads and the difficulty of getting the wagons along. The Battalion was billeted in barns and stables at a place called Blendecques, where we spent November 6th to November 19th, training and getting ready for the front. The only thing of interest that happened was the lining of the streets at St. Omer on November 17th when the body of Lord Roberts passed through on its way to England. The Prince of Wales was also present.
On the morning of November 20th we left Blendecques and marched about 18 miles, to Hazebruck where we stopped the night in barns in the vicinity. The roads were like glass owing to a sharp frost on top of rain. I think it was the hardest day we had and we were all very tired and soon fell asleep. Next morning we were on the move again and had 12 miles to do, but the roads were much better owing to a thaw, and we arrived at Bailleul where we billeted in empty houses about 10 miles behind the firing line. On the 22nd and 23rd we rested, but on the 24th we had a route march and we halted in a valley with some of our long-range artillery in the rear. This was done to give us a taste of firing overhead and I must say it made us jump at first hearing the shells whizzing over our heads, but we soon got used to it and then we were taken back to our billets.
We were inspected by General Sir Smith-Dorrien on November 25th, the Prince of Wales being present. After a few remarks by the General we left to join the Brigade we were to be attached to. We soon crossed the Franco-Belgian frontier and, my word! the roads were like little duck ponds. We could only get along very slowly as we had to pass the transports that were coming the other way. We spent the next two nights in a barn at Westoutre. Leaving there about 3 p.m. on November 27th we marched to a place called Kemmell, south of Ypres. It was near here that we had to relieve some others in the trenches, and as the left half Battalion were for duty the right half were billeted in a deserted farm which had escaped destruction. We were packed like sardines in stables, barns and even pigstyes, anywhere with a roof, until 8.30 p.m. on November 30th. It was here that we had a captain killed in the trenches and one wounded; so we came through our first week luckily, although we had to repulse several attacks. I think if we had to stop in the farm much longer some of us would have gone mad as we had to stay under cover practically all the time on account of an enemy aeroplane seeing us and getting their artillery to open fire on us. It was quite bad enough without that as our artillery was in a wood behind us, which they could not put out of action, and we were being fired over practically all day, and some shells fell not 40 yards from us, but a great percentage of the German shells did not burst due to faulty timing. On leaving this place we marched, I mean crawled, back to billets at Westoutre where we stopped till mid-day on December 3rd, when we were inspected by His Majesty. We were drawn up in two ranks, along the road and he simply passed in a motor, looking very depressed as if he had seen enough of us. I am sure we were an awful sight. bespattered with mud and clay, as it was raining practically all the time I was in France or Belgium and we all looked the worse for it. We had about 2 ½ miles to march to fresh billets, which turned out to be dug-outs with straw roofs which would not keep the rain out and it was like being under a riddle.
On December 6th we went to the trenches. This time it was the Right Half of the Battalion's turn after a weary march along slushy roads we arrived at our old quarters, the Farm. As things turned out it was my luck to get a rifle bullet behind my left ear which penetrated my head and lodged in my right jaw, a most lucky escape as a shade higher and I would have been done for. Feeling dazed I was taken back to the Farm to have medical attention, before reaching the trenches. I have heard since that the three days they spent there were very cold and wet, and when they were relieved they were about done for. It took them all their time to walk as some of them were suffering frost-bitten feet. I left the Farm about 8 p.m., in a horse ambulance wagon, and spent the night at a place called Loare. From there I was taken to Bailleul and the next morning I was put in the train for Boulogne. I was suffering from a swollen cheek which was rather sore, but some of my companions in the carriage were very badly wounded. I spent 5 days in a hospital in Boulogne before I left with 60 others in a private yacht, called the ˜Albion, for Southampton. On arriving there all that were well enough had a nice warm bath which I am sure we needed. I underwent an operation on December 23rd and my souvenir was removed. They got it from the inside of my mouth so I shall not be disfigured. Now I am practically well again and just waiting for my warrant to go home for three weeks sick furlough.
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Pte. William Marsh 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Btn. Kings Regiment (Liverpool) (d.22nd Sep 1917) William Marsh enlisted with the 10th Liverpool Scottish and saw action during the third battle of Ypres.
He was killed in action on 22nd of September 1917.
He has a memorial plaque at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium.
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Herbert Charles "Dan" Faulkner 1/10th (Liverpool Scottish)Battalion Kings (Liverpool) Regiment My great grandfather, Herbert Faulkner, was a clerk before the War and joined up in 1914. Apart from the normal training he also was, for a time, a member of the crew on an armoured train stationed at North Walsham, Norfolk, defending the coast. He trained as a machine gun specialist and crossed the channel onboard a hospital ship The Archangel.
Herbert tried to forget his experiences but after a BBC project in 1977 dictated his memoirs using note books to his daughter and called it "The Archangel takes me to France (and stays with me)". It recalls his often traumatic experiences at the front with the Liverpool Scottish Regiment, with honesty and humour.
At the end of the war he was posted to Ireland to deal with the uprisings there. He described himself as especially lucky. Those that knew him say he was an exceptionally kind, intelligent, sensitive and gentle man. He died in 1981.
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Pte. William Smith 10th Btn. Kings (Liverpool) Regiment I don't know much about my great-grandfather, William Smith, only that he was born in Liverpool in November 1893 and went on to have 4 children with my great-grandmother, Harriet. Agnes & William, born before he enlisted to the army, then Bessie & Harry, born once he was discharged.
Outside of the Army, he was a fitters labourer as well as a music hall artiste and travelling showman. His family followed him up and down the country from theatre to theatre as he was booked here and there. Before last week I didn't even know William's name, today I am reading his attestation, service and discharge records for his time in the 10th and 3rd Battalions of the Kings (Liverpool) Regiment. From this I can see he was drafted on 25th of April 1916, starting life in the Army as a Private in the 10th Scottish Btn. Soon he was transferred to 3rd Scottish Btn and became a Lance Corporal. By the end of WWI he was in 1st Scottish Btn as a T/Acting Sergeant.
But more telling than this, I can also see that he was 5'7", with a 35" chest (expanded), blue eyes with scars on his forehead. I can also see he was submitted to hospital a few times due to a sceptic leg, as well as an illness I can't make out that gave him severe abdominal pain, before also spending 100 days in hospital for gonorrhoea (cleared before he returned home of course).
Unfortunately, a few years after my grandad, Harry, was born in 1921, William left his family never to be seen again. We understand he continued to perform on the stage. He may have married again and had additional children, we may never know.
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L/Cpl. Eustace Addison Holt 10th Btn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment) (d.4th Oct 1916) Eustace Holt's name appears on the war memorial in All Saints Church, Deganwy. His parents, Rev. George Owen Holt and Mary Jane Holt, lived in Deganwy. Eustace was buried in the St Sever Cemetery, Rouen.
I have recently received a photo of Eustace Holt which was found in the cemetery. The reverse of the photo says '23.6.15 Eustace Addison Holt, Died 4.10.16, we remember you'.
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CSM. Donald Robert McColl 10th Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment (d.15th Dec 1918) Company Sergeant Major Donald McColl was my grandad. He drank poisoned water while in France, came home, then died.
There was full military funeral with gun carriage on Smithdown Road. He is buried in Toxteth Cemetery, Smithdown Road, Liverpool. I'd like more information if possible.
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Cpl. Stanley Raymond Carter 1/10th (Liverpool Scottish) Btn. Kings (Liverpool Regiment) (d.9th August 1916) Stan Carter was my uncle. He was a jeweller in Liverpool aged 22 when he died at Guillemont. An early Pals volunteer he died as a stretcher bearer assisting Noel Chavasse VC. His body was never found but his name is at Thiepval.
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Pte Edward Martin Smith 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Btn. King's Regiment (Liverpool) Edward Martin Smith (b. 19 Jan 1893) was posted to the Front on 1 March 1917. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War on 30 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai. He arrived at a POW camp in Munster, Germany on 4 December 1917, where he remained until 7 December 1918, having sustained severe beatings. His last place of internment was in Liege, Belguim. After the war he returned to his job as a foreman painter in Liverpool and he and his wife Elizabeth had 8 children, 4 of whom survived childhood. He died aged 42 in Liverpool on 27 January 1935 from a brain tumour (rumoured to have been a result of the beatings he received as a POW).
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Pte. Robert Norval Cunningham 1st/10th Btn. King's (Liverpool) Rgt. (d.2nd June 1917) Pte Cunningham was born in Scotland and was killed in 1917 at the age of 39. He is buried in Lijesenthoek Military Cemetery.
By the strangest of coincidences we have found that another Robert Norval Cunningham, who joined the RCAF in WWII, is buried 10 miles away in Oostrvleteern Churchyard.
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Pte. John Owen Williams 1st/10th Btn. The King's Liverpool Regiment (d.31st July 1917) John was the son of John and Sarah Ann Williams, Denbigh.
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Pte. Frederick Gustave Jarvis 10th Btn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment) (d.13th Aug 1916) Frederick Jarvis was the son of Harold and Julia Jarvis of Edge Hill, Liverpool. He was killed in France in August 1916 and is buried at Thiepval.
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Pte. William Joseph A. Ryan 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Btn. King's Regiment (Liverpool) My Uncle Bill Ryan enlisted early, and married before embarkation. The only memory he ever shared with me was being blinded by a mustard gas attack in the Ypres area. They were all blinded, in his case temporarily, and they were led out of the area, through snow, each holding onto the man in front.
I am sure he never went to London or the Imperial War Museum, but his description fits exactly to the Singer Seargent painting, with the exception that his kilt was tartan, not buff coloured. He remained a semi invalid after the war, but lived to be 72. (Editor's note: The buff kilt is actually a cover which would have been worn over the tartan when they went into action)
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Pte. Samuel Ignatius Lyon 10th (Scottish) Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment (d.20th Aug 1916)  I have long had in my possession the brass plaque recognising the death of my great uncle, Private Samuel Ignatius Lyon who enrolled 15th February 1916, aged 36yrs, to the 10th (Scottish) Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment. In one place his war records show his birthplace as Scotland rather than Preston but we are unlikely to ever unravel the reason for that.
After a period of training Samuel Ignatius travelled, on 14th July 1916 Folkestone to Boulougne, is transferred to, and proceeded to, 13th Kings on 26th July and is said to have served in 'France and Flanders'. 25 days later he is dead.
As part of 'The Big Push' started July 1st, various King's Liverpool battalions were involved in 5 separate attacks on Guillemont, just east of the Somme river, that eventually resulted in capturing the position at Guillemont on September 3rd.
Records for the 13th Battalion show that, on the 16th Aug 1916, they made an attack on the village of Guillemont. The attack failed with heavy casualties due to poor preparation. One of the casualties was CSM John Burns, killed whilst leading his men in to the attack.
On August 16th Samuel is recorded as wounded in action at what probably is a Field Dressing Station.
He reaches 5th Casualty Clearing Station at Corbie on 17th, then on to the 5th General Hospital at Rouen by 18th August shown with 'Wound Skull (Fracture)' and he dies on 20th August aged 37.
I have a photograph of his grave at St Sever Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery at Rouen, France, where more than 11,000
graves exist. At its base is an epitaph:
'In loving memory of our Sam from his mother, sisters and brothers'.
My Dad wanted to name me Paul Ignatius Lyon in respect of Sam but the initials put him off the idea.
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Pte. David Donald 1/10th Scottish King's Regiment (Liverpool) David Donald enlisted in November 1915. He disembarked for France in April 1914. He served as a stretcher bearer and may have been gassed in July 1917 at the Battle of the Somme. He was taken prisoner at Epehy during the third Battle of Cambrai, and imprisoned at Munster being repatriated in January 1919.
He became a senior journalist in Edinburgh, Scotland, but never spoke or wrote a word about his wartime experiences.
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Pte. William Edward Costain 10th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment (d.28th Apr 1915) William Costain joined the Kings Liverpool Scottish in 1913 as a territorial soldier. He landed in Le Havre 2nd of November 1914 and proceeded to the Ypres Salient. After a very harsh winter in the trenches. On 28th of April 1915 he was assigned the task of locating a Sniper with another soldier. During the search he was shot and killed by the sniper he was looking for.
He was laid to rest beside others of the Liverpool Scottish in enclosure number 3 at Voormenzelee a quiet little village outside of Ypres.
My wife and I have visited the Cemetery October 9th 2013 there are a number of Liverpool Scottish soldiers buried there and all are very well looked after.
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Cpl. Arthur Smith 1st/10th batallion King's (Liverpool Regiment) (d.30th Nov 1917) Arthur Smith died at the Battle of Cambrai. The family has his brass death plaque and a photo of him with a dog dressed in his army uniform, showing one strip on his right shoulder. We know no more about him.
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2nd Lt. A. H. Stretch 4th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regt. I have in my possession an id. disc for A.H.Stretch.one side shows Sgt.A.H.Stretch5820 10th.Liverpool Scottish.The reverse shows 2nd.L.T A.H.Stretch 4Th.L.N.L. I found no records in C.W.G.C.so I assume he survived the Great War.I found no record of medal awards.Would love to know some details of this man.Perhaps make contact with his decendants if possible.
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