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War Diaries of The King's Liverpool Regiment

The diaries contain daily reports on operations, intelligence summaries and other material and mainly activity in Belgium, France and Germany. Being Unit diaries they don't usually contain information relating to individual soldiers.
Whilst many maps and plans were included in the original diaries some confidential material has been removed  and this accounts for the absence of some appendices referred to on the covers of some of the diaries.

The diaries are available to view at the National Archives. Copies are held at Merseyside Maritime Museum.

This information sheet can help in researching a past member of the Regiment and a database providing  information on soldiers serving in the King's Regiment during the First World War can be found here.

The National Archives are currently digitising the First World War battalion diaries. The following are available to order and download:

1 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Aug 1 - Dec 31 1914
1 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Jan 1 - Dec 31 1915
1 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Jan 1 - Dec 31 1916
1 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Jan 1 - Dec 31 1917
1 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Jan 1918 - Apr 1919
2 Garrison Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment Jan 1917 - Dec 1918
4 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Nov 1915 - Nov 1919
5 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Feb-Dec 1915

1/5 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Jan 1916 - Apr 1919
1/6 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Jan 1916 - Apr 1919
1/7 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Mar 1915 -Dec 1915
1/7 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Jan 1916 - Apr 1919
2/6 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Aug 1915-Aug 1916
2/6 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Feb 1917-May 1919
2/7 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Aug 1915 - Feb 1916
8 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment May 1915 - Dec 1915
1/8 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Jan 1916 - Jan 1918
2/8 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Aug 1915 - Feb 1916
















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1/9 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Mar 1915 - Dec 1915

1/9 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Feb 1918 - May1919
10 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Nov 1914 - Dec 1915
12 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Jul 1915 - April 1919
13 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Apr 1916 - Mar 1919
14 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment July 1918
17 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Nov 1915 - June 1918
18 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Nov 1915 - Jun 1918
18 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Jul 1918 - May 1919
19 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Nov 1915 - July 1918
20 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment  Apr - Aug 1917
25 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment May 1918 - May 1919
51 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Mar - Oct 1919
52 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Mar 1919 - Oct 1919

Various websites contain extracts from the King's Liverpool Regiment War Diaries:

1 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Jan1916 - Jun1916

1/9 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Mar 1915 - Jan 1918
2/9 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Feb 1917 - Jan 1918

9 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment Feb 1918 - Dec 1918