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WW1 Liverpool Civic Service League
There seems to have been an amazing variety of organisations which played a Home Front role in WW1.
I have just acquired a mufti badge for an organisation called the Liverpool Civic Service League, an organisation formed well before WW1 but which during WW1 appears to have had a paramilitary role. The following is an extract from an article on the internet which gives a small insight into the League The work of the Civic Service League during WWI The league was formed in 1911 by F.J. Leslie in response to the general strike in Liverpool that year. When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the committee of the League held regular meetings to organise war service activities, including: Drill Classes – began on 10th August in North Haymarket for men who were too old to enlist in the Army, which, at that time was 35 years old. A small rifle range was created in the basement of the meat market at Great Newton Street. The number of classes around the Liverpool area soon increased, and would eventually evolve into The City of Liverpool Volunteer Guard Goes to show that even organisations that on the face of it had no military connection. often end up deserving a place in a collection of military badges for a particular area. P.B.
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This from another history on the internet:
Meanwhile Robert Gladstone Jr submitted for the consideration of the Committee a scheme “by which he would bear the cost of drilling five hundred men, over the army limit, to be ready for such services as they might be required for”. The proposal met with unanimous approval and Gladstone was appointed Honorary Secretary for the Drill section of the League. The League, in collaboration with the Liverpool Meat Importers’ Association, constructed a miniature rifle range in the basement of the Meat Market (Great Newton Street). On the 10th of August 400 men reported for drilling and by the 12th of August 100 more had enrolled. The unprecedented popularity of the instruction led to the establishment of the Volunteer Rifle Corps and secured the League’s reputation as a “pioneer in the matter of civilian drill”. With some negotiation the League was granted permission to forward goods for the Front, via Southampton, “free of carriage”, and shortly thereafter set to work supplying men with pipes, cigarettes, chocolate, candles, playing cards and toothbrushes along with socks, mufflers and mittens, many knitted by volunteers from the community including local children who were taught to knit and sew through the interventions of the Women’s Branch. Ambulance training was also on-going, alongside Nursing classes and instruction in First Aid. The League, with the assistance of local doctors, ran courses culminating in medical certification. Many of the newly qualified were enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps and many more became employed in tending to the sick and wounded who were arriving into Lime Street Station and elsewhere in the city. P.B.
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Interested in all aspects of militaria/military history but especially insignia and history of non regular units with a Liverpool connection Members welcome in my private Facebook group “The Kings Liverpool Regiment ( 1685-1958 )” |
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WW1 Liverpool Civic Service League
PB. thanks for sharing this interesting item, prior to The Great War lots of paramilitary organisations were formed, many of which have almost disappeared into obscurity kept only in peoples minds by the badges they wore.
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I found the article's very interesting Peter.
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Thanks Rob and George
Peter
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Interested in all aspects of militaria/military history but especially insignia and history of non regular units with a Liverpool connection Members welcome in my private Facebook group “The Kings Liverpool Regiment ( 1685-1958 )” |
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Very interesting ... another sign of 'Total' war
Mike |
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