Liverpool Kings Regiment Photos WW1

[Gibel]

The most likely is that there is a photo of him in the local newspaper. If you can get to Liverpool Record Office on a Tuesday afternoon there is a help desk run by members of the Liverpool & S W Lancashire FHS (Liverpool group). One of the ladies there is very very knowledgeable about who appears in the papers at the time.

On Sat 24 March 2012 the Kings are having a day at the new Liverpool Museum of Life. They may have information. The lady mentioned above will, I believe, be there.

[wise1]

Are you located in Liverpool ? If so check out Bill Tagg in Cheapside . He has a friend who specialises in the Kings Regt WW1.

Also have you checked this http://www.ww1photos.com/OnlineSearch.html

[clwyd2]

Have you tried googling the Kings L/pool Reg there are many sites with lots of info .Photo is of my Grandfather W E Boulter who went right through WW1 ,he stayed after the war ended in 1918 I think soldiers were payed £50 to help clear out any German soldiers that continued to fight ,he was wounded in 1919 and recieved an honourable discharge I have his medals but lost his certificate many years ago .He never talked about the war he brought me up as my parents had separated and my mother died when I was 10 yrs old .He died 1972 age 86

[HarrysGirl2]

Are you located in Liverpool ? If so check out Bill Tagg in Cheapside . He has a friend who specialises in the Kings Regt WW1.

Also have you checked this http://www.ww1photos.com/OnlineSearch.html

Yes, Wise 1... I am in Liverpool.   Bill Tagg in Cheapside... how can I contact him ? 
When you say Cheapside, do you mean the police station ? Is he in the police ?


HG2



PS... FOUND HIM -  Cheers Oh Wise One 

[HarrysGirl2]

Have you tried googling the Kings L/pool Reg there are many sites with lots of info .Photo is of my Grandfather W E Boulter who went right through WW1 ,he stayed after the war ended in 1918 I think soldiers were payed £50 to help clear out any German soldiers that continued to fight ,he was wounded in 1919 and recieved an honourable discharge I have his medals but lost his certificate many years ago .He never talked about the war he brought me up as my parents had separated and my mother died when I was 10 yrs old .He died 1972 age 86

Yes, I think I've read everything available online about the Kings Reg, but my grandfather was not killed in action, so there's not much info on soldiers that were not liked in action.  My grandfather died from the effects of gas, according to his DC, but he didn't die until Jan 1924. 

Your story is heartwarming to read Clwyd. It's nice to have a photo, sadly, no photos have survived of my grandfather & nobody left alive who remembers him, so I'm trying to find as much as possible about him as he died 30 years before I was born.

HG2 

[km1971]

When this one resurfaced I checked my records and 10912 W H Welsby almost certainly enlisted in the Special Reserve - 3rd and 4th Battalions of the Liverpool - on the 3rd of September 1914. The records of 10916 Patrick Ambrose are on Ancestry, and that is the date of his enlistment

Ambrose left for France in March 1915 - two months before William - as he had 12 years previous experience as a Regular. They served together in the 4th Battalion, with Ambrose being awarded the DCM.

Ken

[HarrysGirl2]

When this one resurfaced I checked my records and 10912 W H Welsby almost certainly enlisted in the Special Reserve - 3rd and 4th Battalions of the Liverpool - on the 3rd of September 1914. The records of 10916 Patrick Ambrose are on Ancestry, and that is the date of his enlistment

Ambrose left for France in March 1915 - two months before William - as he had 12 years previous experience as a Regular. They served together in the 4th Battalion, with Ambrose being awarded the DCM.

Ken

Ken, you're an angel.  Is there anyway I can use this information to get more details of my grandfather ?

I know this sounds impossible, but I'd love to find a photo of his battalion & hopefully I can recognise him from his description & maybe he looks like one of my family, who are now all dead apart from a couple of cousins.  I've never seen him as no photos have survived of him & the one or two cousins still alive have never seen him either.  So we have only his handwriting on his Christmas card & the brief description on his papers. 

Does this sound impossible ?  Any advice for photos of his battalion ? 

HG2


PS.  I suppose I could put a new thread on here asking for any photos of the 3rd and 4th battalions ?

[garstonite]

I am just curious
A E Welsby was my optician in Garston,Liverpool for years ..and a very good one ..is he related ?

allan

[HarrysGirl2]

I am just curious
A E Welsby was my optician in Garston,Liverpool for years ..and a very good one ..is he related ?

allan

Hi Garsonite how are you ? It's me Wallaby from FTF aka HarrysGirl2.

I was lucky enough to team up with another researcher who had gone back to the year 1573 with my maternal Welsby family. I don't know if there is any link to the optician in Garston that you've mentioned, though. I'm not familiar with that opticians, but I do remember an opticians in Renshaw Street, with the name Walsby not Welsby. Sorry

HG2