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

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As one of the oldest Regiments in the British army it took part in much of British Military History including the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), fighting at Nijmegen, the capture of Huy and Limbourg, the capture of the Schellenberg fortress, the Battle of Blenheim, the Battle of Ramillies, the Battle of Oudenarde, the sieges of Ghent, Bruges and Lillie, the Siege of Tournai, and the Battle of Malplaquet. On parade with the Grenadier Guards for the Regiment’s special day, were The Captain of the King’s Company Major Johnny Hathaway-White; Second Lieutenant Rupert Elmhirst carried off the retiring Colour of HM Queen Elizabeth II; while Ensign to the Colour, Lieutenant Hal Wheatley, carried the new Colour, the Royal Standard of the Regiment, onto parade for the ceremony. He was supported by the Colour Party. 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 ] Despite the awful physical and psychological effects of gas, the fatality rate was relatively low compared to bullet or shrapnel wounds - about 97% of gas casualties recovered, though some of them would suffer a prolonged degree of incapacity, and for many more there would be repercussions in later life. During the night [of 30 th Sept] the Division was relieved. It had …become so reduced in numbers as to be unfit for active operations until reinforced …. therefore it was withdrawn from the battle front."

That solved the mystery of the mismatch of regiments between his photograph and his documentation - but much more than that - by the same logic I could deduce all the other missing numbers - John Thompson's would have been 96010, George Thornborrow's 96011 etc. [v] Confirmation comes from the Identity Cert. (Figure 3), which locates him at home in Wallasey drawing the first instalment of a full pension of 8s/0d per wk at his local Post Office on Poulton Road, Wallasey on 10th Sept 1919 and every subsequent week until 8th Sept 1920. A more accurate assessment of casualties may be possible by examination of The Pension Record Ledgers which are currently being digitised and close attention is being paid to each new tranche of data as it is released. My father must have developed flu symptoms whilst billeted in Raches, five miles north of Douai, before 5th November, the date that his battalion was moved east to Landas. On admission to 42nd CCS he was assessed as "Dangerously ill". [xxvii] Figure 26: WFA Pension Record Ledger 3/MR/4933 giving 'Bronchitis Pneumonia' which was '20% due to his war service'. Source: WFA Pension Ledgers

xxiv] It has been estimated that the world-wide death toll of the flu pandemic was between 50 and 100 million.

Figure 21: 7th Norfolk's advance 8th Aug. - 28 th Oct.1918 overlaid (in red) onto a map published in The Times on 27 th Aug 1918. Locations from April to July referred to in the text are underlined in red. Then, using the same technique at the lower end of the list to explore numbers less than 49070 Jim LITTLER, I determined the lower limit of the sequence. The first man was 49000 Frank COLEMAN - beyond him searches for the next 50 numbers yielded blanks. It went on to serve during the American Revolutionary War (1768-1785), and during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) seized the Island of Martinique in the West Indies. It suffered 1,700 casualties in the first 9 months of 5 year deployment in the West Indies, largely due to disease. In 1967 when the TAVR was created, the 3 Battalions were reduced to 2 companies of the Lancastrian Volunteers. 5th King's, became B Company (King's); whilst both 8th and 9th Manchesters became C Company (Manchester). They had just achieved that qualifying age, so their training was abandoned about four months earlier than planned - their time had come. They were hastily reassigned from their training battalion to the 4th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regt. before boarding a train for the Kent coast and embarking for France on 4th April 1918.

First World War

I'm sorry to disappoint you a little but there simply won't be the time to go through a very long list of names at the Maritime Museum tomorrow, maybe a list of three or four at the very most. Her Majesty The Queen Consort was made Regimental Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in December last year, and she joined the King for the second Colours presentation ceremony.

For my purposes, it was sufficient to enter "490" into the [Service Number] box, since all the numbers I was interested in began with those three digits in the range 49000 to 49099, and to select "Norfolk Regiment" from the drop-down list in the [Regiment/Corps] box - leaving all the other boxes blank (see Figure 11). The search yielded 35 names but 12 of the service numbers didn't begin with "490", they contained that sequence elsewhere in the number - e.g. "24900 Pte William Wright" - but once again it was a simple matter to identify and ignore these unwanted results. The Life Guards and The Grenadier Guards have been part of the Sovereign’s personal troops since before the Restoration of the Monarchy. Today, alongside the Royal Navy and the King’s Colour Squadron of the Royal Air Force, who also received new service Colours from The King, The Grenadier Guards and The Life Guards were the first Regiments in the British Army to receive precious ceremonial flags with the new King’s Cypher and Crown; Colours and Standards that will be borne proudly on ceremonial events for years to come.Forty one Association members and their guests attended the National Memorial Arboretum for a Memorial Service in remembrance of those members of the Regiment who lost their lives in Northern Ireland during ‘Op Banner’. MORE INFO >> Although the two young men were stationed for the next three months in the same general area, mostly around Forceville, there is no evidence that their paths crossed again. The fact that the estimate of total casualties is more than 100 reflects the broad assumptions in the calculation, quite probably a few survived unscathed - but it seems clear that almost all of the ‘Liverpool Boys’ would have made a personal sacrifice.