Showing posts with label King's Liverpool Regiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label King's Liverpool Regiment. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 October 2016

Officer's Victory Medal to a Lieutenant in the South Lancs: Lieutenant Henry Wormald

Holder's details:

Lieut Henry Wormald

Trinity College Cambridge War List

Wormald, H Lieut King's (Liverpool Rgt) and S Lancs Rgt, graduated1903

Henry Wormald
Military Year: 1914-1920
Rank: Lieutenant
Medal Awarded: British War Medal and Victory Medal
Regiment or Corps: Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire) Regiment

28 St. Luke's Road
Beeston Hill
Leeds

Medal condition:

Extremely Fine.

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Tuesday, 27 September 2016

France and Flanders 1915: Private Charles Campbell of the King's Liverpool Regiment

Details of holder's service:

13145 Pte Charles Campbell, 4th Battalion King's (Liverpool) Regiment. Entitled Victory Medal, British War Medal, 1914-15 Star (date of entry to French theatre, 04/03/15).

(See photo of 4th KLR in action: British infantry from the 4th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, lying in "scrapes", prepare to face a German attack, 1915.

Photo published in The War Illustrated, 12 June 1915. Caption reads:

"COLD STEEL!" BRITISH ABOUT TO CHARGE.— A wonderfully vivid photograph of Germans assaulting British trenches. The oncoming enemy is seen in the left-hand corner while our soldiers, with bayonets fixed and every nerve strained to the limit of human endurance, anxiously await the inspiring command "Charge!" from their officer, standing in the centre. The moment is tense, the most thrilling in human strife. In a flash our "Tommies" will be "up and at 'em!"

Medal condition:

Fine, almost total loss of gilding.