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The King's
Regiment
(Liverpool) |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
United
Kingdom
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| 1685.06.19 | The Princess
Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot raised in Derbyshire and Hertfordshire; named for the future Queen Anne; also known until 1751 by names of colonels |
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| 1702 | The Queen's
Regiment of Foot (redesignated when Princess Anne became Queen) |
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| 1716 | The King's
Regiment of Foot (re-named for King George I) |
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| 1751.07.01 | 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot | |
| 1881.07.01 | The King's
(Liverpool Regiment) reorganised as the city regiment of Liverpool, encompassing also its Militia and Volunteer infantry [see below] |
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| 1921.01.01 | The King's Regiment (Liverpool) | |
| 1958.09.01 | amalgamated with The Manchester Regiment, to form The King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool) | |
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Brief History (from Regiment, no. 5, Aug/Sep 1994) | |
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8th Regiment in North America, by Eric S. Bloomquist. | |
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The King's Regiment in the Canadas, by Peter Twist (Discriminating General) | |
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The King's Regiment, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War). | |
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The King's Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918) | |
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| ? Depot Battalion
[1856-1871] |
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| 13th Brigade Depot at Liverpool [1873-1881] | ||
| 8th Regimental District at Liverpool [1881-1905] | ||
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| D Group at Carlisle [1946-48] | ||
| Lancastrian Brigade at Preston [1948-1958] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion [1685-1958] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1756-1758] | ||
| 2nd Battalion [1804-1815, 1857-1948] | ||
| 3rd Battalion [1900-1901] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1900-1901] | ||
| Militia and Special Reserve: | ||
| 3rd Battalion (2nd Royal Lancashire Regiment of Militia (The Duke of Lancaster's Own)) [1881-1900, 1901-1953] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1881-1953] | ||
| 5th Battalion [1900-1901] | ||
| 6th Battalion [1900-1901] | ||
| Territorials and Volunteers: | ||
| 1st Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 2nd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 3rd Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 4th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 5th (Irish) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 6th Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 7th (Isle of Man) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1920] | ||
| 8th (Scottish) Volunteer Battalion [1881-1908] | ||
| 5th Battalion [1908-1958] | ||
| 6th (Rifle) Battalion [1908-1936] | ||
| 7th Battalion [1908-1938] | ||
| 8th (Irish) Battalion [1908-1947] | ||
| 9th Battalion [1908-1920] | ||
| 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion [1908-1937] | ||
| Hostilities-Only Units (First and Second World War, including T.A. duplicates): | ||
| 2/5th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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| 3/5th Battalion [1915-1919] |
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| 2/6th Battalion [1914-1919] |
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| 3/6th Battalion [1915-1916] |
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| 2/7th Battalion [1914-1919] |
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| 3/7th Battalion [1915-1919] |
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| 2/8th (Irish) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 3/8th (Irish) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 2/9th Battalion [1914-1918] |
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| 3/9th Battalion [1915-1916] |
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| 9th Battalion [1939-1946] |
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| 2/10th (Scottish) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 3/10th (Scottish) Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 10th (Home Defence) Battalion [1939-1941]
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| 2/10th (Home Defence) Battalion [1940-1940]
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| 11th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 11th Battalion [1940-1942] |
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| 12th (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 12th Battalion [1940-1941] |
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| 13th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers) [1914-1919]
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| 13th Battalion [1940-1945] |
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| 14th (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 15th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 15th Battalion [1940-1941] |
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| 16th (Reserve) Battalion [1914-1916]
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| 17th (1st City) (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 18th (2nd City) (Service) Battalion [1914-1919]
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| 19th (3rd City) (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 20th (4th City) (Service) Battalion [1914-1918]
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| 21st (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 22nd (Reserve) Battalion [1915-1916]
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| 23rd (Works) Battalion [1916-1917]
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| 24th (Works) Battalion [1916-1917]
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| 23rd (Works) Battalion [1916-1917]
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| 25th Battalion [1917-1920] |
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| 26th Battalion [1917-1918] |
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| 27th (Home Service) Battalion [1918-1919]
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| 28th (Service) Battalion [1918-1918]
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| 29th (Service) Battalion [1919-1920]
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| 30th (Service) Battalion [1919-1920]
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| 30th Battalion [1941-1943] |
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| 51st (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
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| 52nd (Service) Battalion [1917-1920]
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| 53rd (Service) Battalion [1917-1919]
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| 70th (Young Soldier) Battalion [1940-1943]
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| 1st Dock Battalion [1915-1917]
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| 1st Garrison Battalion [1915-1919]
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| 2nd Dock Battalion [1915-1918]
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| 2nd Garrison Battalion [1915-1920]
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| 3rd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
[1916-1917] |
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| Blenheim,
Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen,
[Egypt]1,
Martinique 1809, Niagara,
Delhi 1857, Lucknow,
Peiwar Kotal, Afghanistan
1878-80, Burma 1885-87,
Defence of Ladysmith,
South Africa 1899-1902
The Great War [45 battalions]: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Neuve Chapelle, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers- Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre 1916, Bapaume 1917 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Scarpe 1917 '18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Bailleul, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, N.W. Frontier India 1915, Archangel 1918-19 The Second World War: Normandy Landing, North-West Europe 1944, Cassino II, Trasimene Line, Tuori, Capture of Forli, Rimini Line, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Chindits 1943, Chindits 1944, Burma 1943-44 1 the Sphinx badge superscribed "Egypt". |
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Colours and Drums, 1775-1783, by Ron Aylor | |
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Regimental Colour, 1st Bn, ca. 1930 (cigarette card) | |
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| Uniform: | ?--1953:
scarlet; facings: blue 1953-1958: blue; facings: blue; piping: blue headdress:
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| 1925.10 | F.M. HM King George V | |
| 1685.06.19 | Col. Robert (Shirley), 1st Earl Ferrers | |
| 1686.11.01 | Lt-Gen. James (Fitzjames), Duke of Berwick, KG | |
| 1688.12.31 | Col. John Beaumont | |
| 1695.12.26 | Gen. John Richmond Webb | |
| 1715.08.05 | Brig-Gen. Henry Morrison | |
| 1720.12.03 | Brig-Gen. Sir Charles Hotham, 4th Bt. [also 1st Dgns, 16th Dgns, 36th Foot, Hotham's Foot] | |
| 1721.04.21 | Brig-Gen. John Pocock | |
| 1732.05.08 | Col. Charles Lenoe | |
| 1739.06.06 | Lt-Gen. Richard Onslow | |
| 1745.04.25 | Lt-Gen. Edward Wolfe [also 1st Marines] | |
| 1759.10.24 | Maj-Gen. Hon. Barrington | |
| 1764.04.11 | Lt-Gen. John Stanwix | |
| 1766.12.18 | Lt-Gen. Daniel Webb | |
| 1772.10.20 | Gen. Bigoe Armstrong [also 60th Foot, 83rd Foot] | |
| 1794.07.30 | Gen. Ralph Dundas | |
| 1814.02.08 | Gen. Edmund Stevens | |
| 1825.09.13 | Gen. Sir Henry Bayly, GCH | |
| 1846.04.24 | Gen. Sir Gordon Drummond, GCB [also 49th Foot, 71st Hldrs, 88th Foot, 97th Foot] | |
| 1854.10.10 | Lt-Gen. John Duffy, CB, KC | |
| 1855.03.18 | Gen. Roderick Macneil | |
| 1860.06.03 | Maj-Gen. Eaton Monins | |
| 1861.06.17 | Gen. Thomas Gerrard Ball | |
| 1881.12.19 | Gen. John Longfield, CB | |
| 1889.02.28 | Gen. Lord Alexander George Russell, GCB | |
| 1891.05.01 | Gen. George William Powlett Bingham, CB | |
| 1899.03.26 | Lt-Gen. Robert Stuart Baynes | |
| 1902.10.08 | Lt-Gen. George Edward Baynes | |
| 1906.12.30 | Gen. Edward Henry Clive | |
| 1916.03.02 | Gen. Sir William Henry Mackinnon, GCB, KCVO | |
| 1923.04.07 | Gen. Sir Charles Harington Harington, GCB,
GBE, DSO [also 4/15th Punjab Regt; Hon. Col. 7th Bn King's Regt; Cmdt. Army Educ Corps; Gov. & C-in-C Gibraltar 1933-38] |
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| 1940.10.24 | Maj-Gen. Clifton Edward Rawdon Grant Alban, CBE, DSO | |
| 1947.04.01 | Gen. Sir Dudley Ward, GCB, KBE, DSO [also Cmdt. REME; Gov. & C-in-C Gibraltar 1962-65; Hon. Col. Liverpool Univ OTC] | |
| 1957.04.01 | Brig. Richard Nicholson Murray Jones, CBE [to 1958] | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference). | |
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VCs in the King's Regimental Museum, by Iain Stewart. | |
| Motto: | Nec aspera terrent | |
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| Nicknames: | The Leather Hats; The King's Hanoverian White Horse | |
| Anniversaries: | Somme (1 July), Blenheim (13 Aug.), Delhi (14 Sep.) | |
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The Toronto Regiment | 1927-1936 | |
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The Royal Regiment of Canada | 1936-1958 | |
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8th Battalion (The City of Ballarat Regiment) |
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8th/7th Infantry Battalion (The North Western Victorian Regiment) | 1951-1958 | |
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The King's, or 8th Regiment, British Brigade [Detroit Garrison, 1768-1785, United States] | |
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The King's Regiment of Foot, Fort Michilimackinac Garrison [Michigan] | |
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Capt. Mathews' Light Infantry Company, ca. 1779 [New York], by Eric S. Bloomquist. | |
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Kompanie G, 1768-1783 [Germany] | |
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General's Company [Illinois], by Mark Canady | |
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8th (King's) Rgt. of Foot (NWTA summary) | |
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The King's Regiment in the Canadas [Toronto, War of 1812], by Peter Twist (Discriminating General) | |
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World Wide Web Barracks of The King's Regiment of Foot in America (list all units), by Dennis G. Lennox II. | |
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Museum of The King's Regiment, (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Museum of The King's Regiment, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing). | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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The Kingsman. | |
| Full Histories: | ||
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Burke-Gaffney, J. J. The story of the King's Regiment, 1914-1948. [Liverpool] : Printed by Sharpe and Kellet for the King's Regiment, 1954. | |
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Potter, William L. Redcoats on the frontier. Thesis (M.A.)--Murray State University, 1988. | |
| Short Histories: | ||
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Cannon, Richard. 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. London : Parker, 1844. | |
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record of the King's Liverpool Regiment of Foot : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent services 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. 2nd ed. London : Harrison and sons, 1883. (Historical records of the British Army). | |
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Cannon, Richard. Historical record of the King's Liverpool Regiment of Foot : containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685 and of its subsequent services to 1903 (including affiliated militia and volunteer battalions) ; also, succession lists of the officers who served in each of the regimental ranks, with biographical notices and summaries of their war services. 3rd ed. Enniskillen : Published by William Trimble, 1904. | |
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Scadding, Henry. The 8th King's Regiment : a curiosity in its annals. Toronto : Copp, Clark Co., 1894. | |
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Threlfall, T. R. The story of the King's (Liverpool Regiment) formerly the Eighth Foot. London, New York : Offices of "Country life"; C. Scribner's sons, 1916 ("Country life" series of military histories) | |
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2nd Battalion The King's Regiment : 250th anniversary celebration, 1685-1935. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1935. | |
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A short history of The King's Regiment (Liverpool). Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1925. | |
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Shepperd, G. A. (Gilbert Alan). The King's Regiment. Reading : Osprey Publishing, 1973 (Men-at-arms series) ISBN: 0850451285 | |
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Militia: |
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First World War: |
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Wyrall, Everard. The history of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) 1914-1919. London : Arnold, 1928-1935. 3 vols. |
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Roberts, Enos Herbert Glynne. The Story of the "9th King's" in France. Liverpool : Northern Publishing Co., 1922 |
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The record of the 11th Battalion of The King's Regiment (Liverpool), subsequently the 15th Battalion of the Loyal North Lancs Regiment, Pioneers, 14th Light Division, August 1914-March 1919. London : R.E. Thomas and Co, 1920. |
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Stanley, F.G. The history of the 89th Brigade, 1914-1918. Liverpool : Daily Post Printers, 1919. |
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Maddocks, Graham. Liverpool pals : a history of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th (Service) Battalions : the King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1914-1919. London : Leo Cooper, 1991. ISBN: 0850523400 (pbk) |
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| Manuscripts and Archives: | ||
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Orderly Books of the Crown Forces in America 1775-1784, compiled by John K. Robertson, Don Hagist, Todd Braisted, and Don Londahl-Smidt (RevWar'75) | |
