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The regiment formed as the Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot during a rebellion in 1685 by the Duke of Monmouth against King James II. [1] After James was deposed during the "Glorious Revolution" that installed William III and Mary II as co-monarchs, the regiment's commanding officer, the Duke of Berwick, decided to join his royal father in exile. [2]
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
When the 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot became The King's (Liverpool Regiment) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, eight pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Lancashire and the Isle of Man were integrated into the structure of the King's Regiment. [1]
Thus, on 1 July 1881, the two battalions of the 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot became the 1st and 2nd Battalions, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment. [5] The 8th Foot had been associated with Liverpool since 1873, when it became allocated to the town's 13th Brigade Depot. [ 6 ]
[4]: 357 Beginning from the same year, sergeants wore a pair of silk epaulettes with fringe while sergeant-majors had a pair of gold or silver laced epaulettes with bullion fringe. [ 4 ] : 358 The chevrons worn by many non-commissioned officers are based on heraldic devices and their current use originates from 1802.
[1] He was born the son of John Longfield into the well-established Longfield family of Longueville house, near Mallow, County Cork. He was appointed an rnsign in the 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot in 1825 and progressed through the ranks, becoming lieutenant in 1828, captain in 1835, major in 1844, lieutenant-colonel in 1846 and brevet ...
In 8th Bde at Arras in April 1917, each A Company wore a square, B a triangle, C a diamond, D a circle, and HQ a star. For 8th EYR the battalion colour was dark green, and the HQ patch was a five-pointed star. The scheme was discontinued for officers later, but the patches may have continued for some time on ORs' uniforms.
[1] [8] The Volunteer Training Corps were raised with overage or reserved occupation men early in the war, and were initially self-organised into many small corps, with a wide variety of names. Recognition of the corps by the authorities brought regulation and as the war continued the small corps were formed into battalion sized units of the ...