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Capt Arthur de Bells Adam (MC)
1885 - 1916


CPL David Wallace Crawford
1887 - 1916


Lce-Corpl John Joseph Nickle
1894 - 1916


Pte 17911 Morton Neill
1897 - 1916


Lieut Edward Stanley Ashcroft
1883 - 1918
Lieut Edward Stanley Ashcroft

Lord Kitchener makes appeal

Lord Kitchener makes his famous appeal for volunteers, 100,000 are required. This national campaign has the attention locally of Lord Derby. He meets with Kitchener to discuss the possibility of raising one battalion of men drawn from the business community in Liverpool. Kitchener approves of the idea and leaves the responsibility for arranging this venture with Lord Derby.

The process of recruiting began with Lord Derby writing to all of the major employers within Liverpool asking them to release all eligible men for military service. He fully recognised that these were professional men in well paid employment and therefore asked that the employers should consider the offer of a minimum of 50% salary to be paid to the families of these men whilst they were serving.

The employers agreed to form a committee and drafted a message to be sent to all staff in their employ urging them all to attend a meeting, which Lord Derby had notified them of, on the evening of the 28th.

Killed On This Day.

(108 Years this day)
Wednesday 8th November 1916.
Pte 17836 Reginald Charles Heyes
22 years old

(107 Years this day)
Thursday 8th November 1917.
Pte 24359 Arthur Crumbie Ledger
22 years old

(107 Years this day)
Thursday 8th November 1917.
Pte 86364 Louis De Witt Tomlinson
37 years old

(106 Years this day)
Friday 8th November 1918.
Pte 268610 George Acton
24 years old

(106 Years this day)
Friday 8th November 1918.
Pte 332819 William Adams
36 years old

(106 Years this day)
Friday 8th November 1918.
Lieut Harry Leslie Baker (MC)
26 years old

(106 Years this day)
Friday 8th November 1918.
Pte 202891 Joseph Frederick Peter Bartley
20 years old

(106 Years this day)
Friday 8th November 1918.
Sgt 19404 Anthony Bolton
23 years old

(106 Years this day)
Friday 8th November 1918.
Pte 18192 Edwin Cartwright
36 years old

(106 Years this day)
Friday 8th November 1918.
Pte 204609 Henry Curran
38 years old

(106 Years this day)
Friday 8th November 1918.
Pte 269493 Samuel Henry Derry
32 years old

(106 Years this day)
Friday 8th November 1918.
Pte 65291 Norman Gordon Grant
23 years old

A total of 19 Pals were killed on this day. View All