Related Links for The Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum
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We are aware that many of the links on this page are now out of date. Unfortunately, we will be unable to take action to correct the page until the mid 2011 at the earliest
(Partially checked August 2011)
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Memorials
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (On line database of the Debt of Honour register)
Scottish National War Memorial (Architectural and organisational details of the SNWM at Edinburgh Castle)
Pipers' War Memorial Longueval, France (Projected War Memorial for the pipers of the British Army in France)
Last Post Ceremony, Menin Gate, Ieper (Ypres) (The ceremony which occurs every night of the year at 2000hrs in Ieper at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing)
Liverpool Scottish Associated Memorials - to be added but presently available through the Museum website
*St George's Hall, Liverpool - Location of the Liverpool Scottish War Memorial immediately opposite Lime Street Station in the centre of the city
Battle of Hooge Related
Robert Patrick Gordon 4th Bn Gordon Highlanders TF Kinnethmont village website page; see also below
Robert Patrick Gordon (Battle of Hooge) Actions of 4th Gordon HIghlanders 16th-20th June 1915
Newton and Earlestown War Memorial Developing site which will include obituaries of many of the 4th Bn South Lancashire Regt (PWV) who died at Hooge and William Charnley of the Liverpool Scottish
People
Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC and Bar, MC, MA, MB, BCh (RAMC Site - Link broken 23/11/99)
Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, VC and Bar, MC, RAMC (Ian Jones - contains much detail of Liverpool Scottish Great War history)
Basil Rathbone MC Actor - role of Sherlock Holmes
RA Scott Macfie RQMS 1/10th (Scottish) Bn, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) during the First World War and Gipsy Lore Expert
Donald Farmer VC RSM 1/10 (Scottish) Battalion and Quartermaster and Adjutant 2/10th Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment) - period 1914 -18 - Link to 79th News obituary
Keep 'Em Moving (George Sands MM) Service in WW2 with the Liverpool Scottish and the Camerons
Official Army Sites and Related Regiments and Organisations
Army Press Office - gateway to official sites for regiments of the British Army and regimental museums (most are in a standard format and tends to be out of date)
51st Highland Division The Trustees of the 51st Highland Division and Ross Bequest Fund have launched a campaign to raise the money to put towards this project, if you would like to help them raise funds or have any fundraising suggestions, please get in touch.
The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border) The successor regiment to the King's Regiment, the Queen's Lancashire Regiment and the King's Own Royal Border Regiment
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment Shop The regimental shop of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
The King's Regiment - Regimental Association (Liverpool Branch)
A (Ladysmith) Company - 4th Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment RFCA contact page for A Company 4 LANCS and the Liverpool Scottish Rifle Platoon (don't rely on the map!)
The Highlanders Newsy informal site covering regimental family maintained by ex ORS of 1 QOHLDRS and 1 HLDRS
The Regimental Museum of The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) Fort George
The Liverpool Scottish Regimental Association Pipe Band - The Liverpool Scottish Sound
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders - Dr Diana Henderson
The Queen's Own Highlanders - Dr Diana Henderson
The Queen's Own Highlanders Regimental Association (Strathclyde Branch) - Coming soon - the spinning Hector (Nov 99)
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) - Dr Diana Henderson
The London Scottish - Regiment's Own Site
G (London Scottish) Company The website of G (The London Scottish) Company of the 51st Highland Volunteers, our comrades in arms for nearly a quarter of a century. There are many references to V (The Liverpool Scottish) Company
The Liverpool Scottish - Scottish Military Historical Society
Saturday Night Soldiers (51st Highland Volunteers) - Article by Lt Col the Hon. W.D. Arbuthnott MBE 1973 (SMHS) - the link to this article is broken - a copy of this article would be much appreciated
Museums - See also 'Museums Index Websites' below
Museum of The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) at Fort George - Information and Highland Heritage Appeal
Museum of the Black Watch - Balhousie Castle, Perth
Museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - Stirling Castle
Museum of the Gordon Highlanders - St Luke's, Viewfield Road, Aberdeen - Museum's own site
In Flanders Fields Museum Ieper/Ypres - Exciting interactive Museum in the Cloth Hall at Ypres/Ieper. Winner of European Museum of the Year Award. First rate documentation centre attached.
Erquinghem et Son Histoire HQ of the 2nd Battalion The Liverpool Scottish in 1917
Societies
Scottish Military Historical Society Journal 'Dispatch'
Western Front Association Journal 'Stand To'
Military Historical Society - 37, Canonbury Square, LONDON N1 2AN
History Society of Erquinghem-Lys HQ of the 2nd Battalion during 1917
Museum Index Websites
Army Museums Ogilby Trust (Index of Museums which are associated with AMOT)
British Army Index of Regimental Web Sites (Todd Mills at University of Denver - lists sites as official, semi-official, museum etc)
Henrik Teller's Simonides Museum Index (International Index of Military Museums listed by Country)
Museums Around the UK on the Web (National Grid for Learning)
Re-enactors Sites
The Cameron Highlanders Re-enactors Page: 1939-45 ( US site maintained by a re-enactment society; two pages here which give brief details of 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Liverpool Scottish between 1939 and 1945 with a couple of photographs)
1st Battalion The Cameron Highlanders 1793 - 1900 US site maintained by a re-enactment Society
Family and Soldier Research
Liverpool Regimental Scottish Museum For a Liverpool Scottish soldier this is your first point of contact.
Liverpool Regimental Scottish Museum Having arrived at this site, you might contact us in the first instance, about a soldier from the King's (Liverpool Regiment) or a soldier who was in a Scottish Regiment and we would forward your enquiry or advise you as necessary. Further research might reveal a more appropriate source, some of which are listed on this page. The choice is yours.
Other sites of interest are
Public Record Office The repository for all surviving First World War officers and soldiers records. Many were destroyed by enemy action in WW2
British Military Uniform Identification Service This site offers and identification service for military uniforms, particularly in photographic form. However, if you think that your photo may be of a member of the Liverpool Scottish, please send it to the Museum first
Western Front Association Look for their photographic interpretation pages
Trenches on the Web - link to follow
Miscellaneous
Somme Battlefield Pipe Band Pipe band playing in the area of the Somme, established over 20 years
Passchendaele 1917 Pipes and Drums (Fleming Pipe Band) Flemish Pipes and Drums based in the area of Ieper/Ypres
Clan Cameron Museum Museum of the Clan Cameron in the grounds of Locheil's home, Achnacarry, near Fort William
56th Recce Regt - WW2 site of Ron Tee with much detail and WW2 music in MIDI form . Many Liverpool Scots served in recce regts.
History and Heraldry of the Forbes Family - Private site with history and heraldry of some Scottish clans including Forbes
Tartans of Scotland - Lists and displays many tartans
Castle Forbes - Perfumes and Toiletries in a Forbes Tartan Box with the Forbes Clan Badge on the Bottles
St Nazaire - The website of the St. Nazaire Society: decisive Commando action WW2
'Storming St. Nazaire' - Book by James Dorrian
Commando/SBS Mystery - Contains references to WW2 commando operations in the Mediterranean
Linkmaster - Directory
Bagpipes at Best - MIDI files of a huge selection of pipe tunes; these are basic sketches of pipe tunes which are quickly downloaded
Traditional Scottish Tunes Fun selection of Scottish tunes rendered in midi format, mainly imitating the piano
42 Signal Squadron Comprehensive history of 42 Signal Squadron TA gives some of the history of Forbes House (Liverpool Scottish HQ 1967- 1999) prior to the Liverpool Scottish taking it over.
Account of the Sailing of SS Maidan 1st Nov 1914 Diary account of a SNCO of the Queen's Westminsters, the battalion which shared a Channel crossing with the Liverpool Scottish aboard the SS Maidan to France in 1914
Diary of a Boer War Veteran Diary of a Boer War Volunteer who served with the 1st Service Company of the Gordon Highlanders in South Africa. The Liverpool Scottish contingent served with the 4th Service Company
55th (West Lancashire) Division Synopsis of Great War History
57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division Synopsis of Great War History
3rd Division of the British Regular Army 1914 -18 From C.F. Baker's site
The British Army in the Great War C.F. Baker's site (enter here with frames - site search engine available)
Pond Farm - Ypres/Ieper Paschendaele Campaign 1917 and Battle of Pilkem Ridge Langemarck - St Julien. Stijn Butaye has a most interesting collection of finds from the farm which is on the ground attacked by the 55th (West Lancashire) Division at the opening of the Third Battle of Ypres in July August 1917. Visit by appointment - about 4 km NE of Ieper
Technical
The Counter Site Counter service
Bravenet Web Services site with counter, guest book, mailing list and site search facilities
FusionBot Automated site indexing and search facility with automated Sitemap available
Accommodation in Belgium/Flanders - No Responsibility Taken for Quality - Feedback and Recommendations Welcomed
De Trompete - Excellent bar/restaurant run by the Debackers in Ypres/Ieper (closed Thursdays) - ask to see the the Liverpool Scottish plaque. Spot the Museum Secretary behind a Hommelbier in the corner.
The Albion Hotel, Ypres/Ieper - Excellent hotel - ask for the Liverpool Scottish Museum Secretary behind The Times in the corner of the main reception room
Woodside B&B Wijnendale-Torhout
Old Tom, Ypres/Ieper Hotel and restaurant - open Thursday