War Diaries

King's Liverpool Regiment in the trenches at Blaireville 16th April 1916 © Imperial War Museum (Q526)

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.

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