The King's Regiment (Men-at-Arms)

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So, this study of the coherent group of 100 Kings Liverpool to 7th Bn Norfolk Regiment transferees had yielded 9 service records - and they tell a consistent story. During all the operations the Mortar Platoon had been engaged and although the Command Post had received a direct hit the platoon had suffered no casualties but had gained a terrific reputation for both accuracy and speed of response. The post action report noted that the Battle of The Hook ‘called for immense volumes of accurate and rapid fire from the Mortar Platoon, and the platoon excelled itself’. Almost 2000 men had served in 1stKing'sin Korea, with some 200 recorded as casualties.” The weather in Korea varied greatly between seasons. The Battalion amalgamated with the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, in 1999, to form the King's and Cheshire Regiment; A and V Companies amalgamated as A (King's) Company, and C Company was redesignated as C (King's) Company, of the new regiment. The King's Companies of the King's and Cheshire Regiment, later went on to amalgamate with the Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers to form 4th Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. [36] Other information [ edit ] They were active in the Second Afghan War (1878–1880) and then went on to serve during the Third Burmese War (1885), Second Boer War (1899-1902), and the two World Wars. xxiv] It has been estimated that the world-wide death toll of the flu pandemic was between 50 and 100 million.

V (The Liverpool Scottish) Company, at Score Lane, Liverpool (transferred from 1st Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers) Transferred to the Royal Artillery, February 1942 and became 184th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery [1] After a few days rest they began to move forward on 9th Oct when patrols found the German position in front of them unoccupied. The static lines of trenches were by now long behind them and their advance took them more and more into open country and through civilian occupied villages. The German forces were retreating steadily, though taking every opportunity to delay the Allies' progress by destroying anything that might be of use to their pursuers and laying booby traps.Distribution of multi-national occupation forces during the deployment of the King's Regiment in 2003. Duke of Lancaster's Regiment". Archived from the original on 21 November 2008 . Retrieved 26 April 2014. But at this time, in the turmoil of the German Spring Offensive, the pressure on manpower was such that a tour at the front seems to have become six days or more at each location in the trenches. It was a very tough introduction to the war for the raw 'Liverpool boys' and the other young lads like them.

Once again sorry to disappoint but it is genuinely based on the numbers of people who will probably turn up and the time that can be offered to explain things properly to them. This investigation, conceived in 2002, before any military documents were on-line, took 15 years to complete, but most of that time was absorbed waiting for data to become available in digital form. The first step, analysis of Medal Index Card data, couldn't begin until 2008 and the last piece of the jigsaw didn't come to light until 2017. Starting today, when so much data is already on-line, the basic steps could probably be completed in days or even hours. The officers pleaded that the method of introducing the ‘Papists’ into the regiment was underhand and against normal practice, and that the companies were up to full strength so that the Irishmen would have been supernumeraries, costing the captains 10 shillings a week. After hearing the evidence the officers were brought in one by one and offered a deal. They would be pardoned if they now agreed to accept the recruits. Each officer refused and was cashiered. Ten days later the King conceded that the officers should be compensated financially for the loss of their commissions. But within that time 7 junior officers of the regiment also refused the Irish recruits and offered to resign their commissions. A decision was made that another court martial would stir up trouble in the army, so on 22 Sep the 7 junior officers were quietly dismissed from the army. It is however possible to make a crude estimate of the unrecorded casualties by using the Commonwealth War Graves Commission details of those who lost their lives. a b "5th/8th (Volunteer) Battalion The King's Regiment". Archived from the original on 6 October 2007 . Retrieved 23 August 2020.Figure 10: My father's Pension Record Card. [Editor's note: this card is from the 'soldiers survived' set. This set is (at October 2019) yet to be published online, but should be available during the course of 2020]