The Liverpool Welsh, under various guises, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army (TA) associated with the King's Liverpool Regiment. It served as a tank regiment in the Western Desert and Italian Campaigns in the Second World War, as a security force during the Greek Civil War, and as a heavy anti-aircraft artillery regiment postwar.
A Valentine tank in the Western Desert, summer 1942.
Sherman tanks of 46th Royal Tank Regiment provide fire support for men of 1st Battalion, Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) at Anzio, 25 January 1944.
An infantryman acts as 'tail end charlie', protecting the commander of a Sherman tank from ELAS snipers in Athens, 18 December 1944.
A Humber armoured car supports paratroops during operations against ELAS in Athens, 6 January 1945.
The Liverpool Rifles was a unit of the Territorial Army, part of the British Army, formed in Lancashire as a 'Rifle Volunteer Corps' (RVC) in 1859, becoming a battalion of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) in 1881. It saw action on the Western Front in the First World War and later became a searchlight unit of the Royal Artillery in the Second World War.
Player's cigarette card showing an officer of the Liverpool Rifles in full dress uniform, which became the 6th (Rifle) Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) in 1908.
British soldiers in a wrecked German trench at Ginchy, 1916.
British infantry at Morval, 25 September 1916.
Men of 55th (WL) Division marching through Béthune after the defence of Givenchy, April 1918.
