The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story of the "9th King's" in France
by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: The Story of the "9th King's" in France

Author: Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts

Release Date: October 31, 2005 [EBook #16974]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF THE "9TH ***

Produced by Irma Spehar, Christine D and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

[Transcriber's note: Punctuation normalised, spelling normalised.]

The Story of the "9th King's" in France.

BY ENOS HERBERT GLYNNE ROBERTS.

LIVERPOOL:
THE NORTHERN PUBLISHING CO. LTD., 17 GOREE PIAZZAS,
AND 11, BRUNSWICK STREET.
1922.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. ENGLAND.

CHAPTER II. THE 1ST DIVISION.

CHAPTER III. THE 55TH DIVISION.

CHAPTER IV. THE 57TH DIVISION.

APPENDIX LIST OF DECORATIONS.

CHAPTER I.

ENGLAND.

Shortly after the commencement of the Volunteer Movement in 1859, many
members of the newspaper and printing trades in Liverpool were desirous of
forming a regiment composed of men connected with those businesses. A
meeting was held in the Liverpool Town Hall, and the scheme was so well
received that steps were taken towards the formation of a corps. Sanction
was obtained, and on the 21st February, 1861, the officers and men of the
new unit took the oath of allegiance at St. George's Hall. Thus came into
being the 80th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, and on the 2nd April, 1863,
the 73rd Battalion of the Lancashire Rifle Volunteers was amalgamated with
it. In the early days of its existence the new unit attended reviews and
inspections at Mount Vernon, Newton-le-Willows and Aintree. Some time
afterwards it was renumbered the 19th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers.
Later--in 1888--it became the 6th Volunteer Battalion of The King's
(Liverpool Regiment).

The ea