WW1 Liverpool Civic Service League

[Peter Brydon]

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.