53rd Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, British Army

• Nationality: UK
• Service: British Army
• Type: Unit
  • Infantry Battalion
• Regular/Territorial: Regular

Name and Organisation Changes

• August 1915: formed as 21st (Reserve) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
• 1 September 1916: renamed 72nd Training Reserve Battalion
• 27 October 1917: renamed 53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion King's (Liverpool) Regiment
• unknown date: disbanded after end of war

Locations

• August-November 1915: Conway
• November 1915-? Prees Heath
• Otober 1917-? Kinmel Park

Theatres

No overseas service.

Parents

Administrative

• Lancashire Fusiliers, British infantry
• Training Reserve
• King's (Liverpool) Regiment, British infantry

Tactical

• 17th Reserve Brigade
• 14th Reserve Brigade

Please include information on the sources or evidence (for example, military records) used to link a particular person to a specific unit.

Personal narratives

(Original personal diaries, letters, memoirs etc written by people in this unit)

Related media (images etc)

(Digitised photographs, images of personal items, etc)

• Photo of George William Aimson, a sergeant in this unit.

Other Sources

Unit war diaries

(The official accounts of movements and daily activities written by an officer of the unit at the time)

None: no overseas service.

Biography

(Published histories, websites, etc)