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From Docks and Sand - Southport and Bootle'S Battalion, the 7th King'S Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War (Hardcover)
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From Docks and Sand - Southport and Bootle'S Battalion, the 7th King'S Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War (Hardcover)
Series: Wolverhampton Military Studies
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This book is a study of the importance and significance of
community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. In
this case the unit in question is primarily 7th King's Regiment and
more widely the 55th West Lancashire Division, 1914-18. The book is
based upon the author's own PhD thesis "The 1/7th Battalion King's
Liverpool Regiment and the Great War - the experience of a
Territorial battalion and its Home Towns". It is an analysis of the
relevance of the local communities to the battalion and its
division and its combat effectiveness; the role played by the army
in the local communities' involvement in the War; and the post-War
ramifications of this relationship. In focusing on 1/7th Battalion
Kings Liverpool Regiment, a Territorial battalion based in Bootle,
Southport and the surrounding area of south west Lancashire, the
thesis follows a typical Territorial unit and its home towns from
recruitment and establishment to demobilisation and beyond. A wide
range of primary sources have been examined including local
newspapers, local Council records, official War Diaries of the
various units, battle reports and private papers of several of the
combatants in an extensive compilation of research. New
perspectives are presented on several aspects of the First World
War including the Lusitania riots; the battles of Festubert, 1915,
and Givenchy, 1918; and the role of charities in post-War
reconstruction work. It also raises general issues about the role
of the Territorial Force and draws attention to several gaps in the
social and military historiography of the War. The conclusion of
the book is that local and community identity contributed
significantly towards the 1/7th Kings' morale, organisation and
hence battle effectiveness. This contribution initially stemmed
from the local recruits themselves but was actively nurtured and
encouraged by commanders at Battalion, Brigade and Divisional level
throughout the War. It also establishes that by putting the local
Battalion at the centre of its concerns, the rather disparate
communities were able to organise, coalesce and maximise their War
effort and support. Finally, it demonstrates in the post-War years,
that, despite the fluctuations in this mutually important
relationship, the local identification with the Battalion was
maintained in memorialisation, remembrance and reconstruction.
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