3rd Liverpool Kings Regiment

[Peridot]

Hi All

I'm not sure I'm posting this on the right sub- Forum but mods can move if needed please.

My grandfather amongst his other duties was an officer's batman during WW1. Both were ASC and involved in the supply of heavy ammunition. I have obtained a service record for the officer concerned Lt Charles Kingsley Parker, and in amongst the list of SBACs with which they served, there is a posting of an attachment to the 3rd Liverpool Kings Regiment, which another Forum Pal tells me served only in the UK and Ireland. I believe it left for Cork in October 1917 and the date of the posting is 30/9/18. It could not have been a very long posting, as the next entry on the service record is 226 SBAC Expeditionary Force France. Annoyingly there are no dates for any of the postings in the Exped Force and no date for the end of the attachment to the Liverpool Regiment. Lt Parker's obituary in 1934 states that he spent a year after the Armistice in Germany. He was demobbed in November 1919.

Can anyone tell me what is the reason likely to have been for this attachment and what the Regiment was doing in Cork at the time and how long it was there? I appreciate thet the question of War Diaries is not applicable and would like to know what might have been happening there to justify the move, which presumably could ill be spared at the time.

Lt Parker was also involved in an application to transfer to the RAF which did not proceed in 1918 and I wonder if the two are connected?

Thanks

Peridot

[corisande]

Can anyone tell me what is the reason likely to have been for this attachment and what the Regiment was doing in Cork at the time and how long it was there? I appreciate thet the question of War Diaries is not applicable and would like to know what might have been happening there to justify the move, which presumably could ill be spared at the time.

After the Easter Rising in 1916, the Irish Regiments were removed from garrison duty in Ireland. However Britain still needed to garrison Ireland 9threat of insurrection and/or German landing)

Hence English Regiments posted to Ireland at that time.

[Peridot]

Thanks Corisande

I believe the Regiment were in Victoria Barracks, Cork and left in February 1919 for Aldershot. This seems to have been a training battalion and the posting may only have been for a couple of months, given that the next entry in the Service Record shows 226 SBAC in France. This Unit left for Germany as part of 10th Brigade RGA in December 1918.

Peridot

[corisande]

They left before the real violence started, so you won't find too much on them. You could try "The IRA and its enemies - Violence & Community in Cork 1916 to 1923" by Peter Hart to get a background as to what was happening in Cork.

[Peridot]

Thanks Corisande.

Peridot