The two world wars became horrific episodes in the worlds history claiming the lives of millions of people, maiming and injuring many more, and depriving families of their loved ones.The city of Liverpool with its suburbs and its neighbours across the river Mersey played its part in both conflicts, its sons went to war where they faced dangerous times in foreign lands and waters, witnessed terrible events, and fought in some of the bloodiest battles ever known. Inevitably some would never return home, they would pay the ultimate sacrifice with their lives.
The docklands on both sides of the Mersey where of huge importance in both wars, and for this suffered greatly during the WW2 blitz. The river was a hive of activity as ships and crafts of every description hurried their cargo in and out of the city. Munitions factories with their mainly female workforce supplied the forces, and dockers loaded and unloaded vital shipping. Merchant Navy seamen went to sea in hazardous conditions to make sure food supplies and ammunition made it through to where it was needed. Railroads, Canals and local farms all played their part as did Aintree Racecourse which housed troops from home and abroad, while hospitals treated wounded servicemen. Many more people and places from the area played a part in the war efforts of both conflicts.
The people who stayed behind had to carry on with life as best as they could, and help keep the country running. Jobs had to be done and many men were refused entry into the forces as their jobs where considered vital, firefighters, ambulance drivers, ARP wardens, Dockers and many other professions where kept back for the countries need. Many of these men would have felt a kind of guilt, but they were needed here and played a huge part in both world wars often in dangerous conditions. With so many men away fighting there was a severe shortage of labour in a range of industries back home and it was the women who answered the call, and took on many of the mens jobs with great success. Many women did the work as well raising families. All in all it was harsh and dangerous times for people back here who also had to contend with the worry of their loved ones fighting overseas. Yet their spirit brought them through and the part they played was just as vital as those who served with the forces.
In the summer of 1940 the German Luftwaffe began daily bombing raids over the UK. Liverpool along with its surrounding areas was hit hard and many of its citizens lost their lives during the campaign. Families where split as many children where evacuated to the countryside. Some families lost everything they owned when their homes where bombed. Shops, public houses and whole streets where reduced to rubble as the Blitz took hold.
This site is dedicated to all the Merseyside people who gave such a huge sacrifice during the two world wars. To their undying spirit and their ability to carry on against all odds, be it here at home or on foreign sea or soil.
Merseyside was created on 1 April, 1974 from areas previously parts of the administrative counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, along with the county boroughs of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Liverpool, Bootle, and St Helens.
The docklands on both sides of the Mersey where of huge importance in both wars, and for this suffered greatly during the WW2 blitz. The river was a hive of activity as ships and crafts of every description hurried their cargo in and out of the city. Munitions factories with their mainly female workforce supplied the forces, and dockers loaded and unloaded vital shipping. Merchant Navy seamen went to sea in hazardous conditions to make sure food supplies and ammunition made it through to where it was needed. Railroads, Canals and local farms all played their part as did Aintree Racecourse which housed troops from home and abroad, while hospitals treated wounded servicemen. Many more people and places from the area played a part in the war efforts of both conflicts.
The people who stayed behind had to carry on with life as best as they could, and help keep the country running. Jobs had to be done and many men were refused entry into the forces as their jobs where considered vital, firefighters, ambulance drivers, ARP wardens, Dockers and many other professions where kept back for the countries need. Many of these men would have felt a kind of guilt, but they were needed here and played a huge part in both world wars often in dangerous conditions. With so many men away fighting there was a severe shortage of labour in a range of industries back home and it was the women who answered the call, and took on many of the mens jobs with great success. Many women did the work as well raising families. All in all it was harsh and dangerous times for people back here who also had to contend with the worry of their loved ones fighting overseas. Yet their spirit brought them through and the part they played was just as vital as those who served with the forces.
In the summer of 1940 the German Luftwaffe began daily bombing raids over the UK. Liverpool along with its surrounding areas was hit hard and many of its citizens lost their lives during the campaign. Families where split as many children where evacuated to the countryside. Some families lost everything they owned when their homes where bombed. Shops, public houses and whole streets where reduced to rubble as the Blitz took hold.
This site is dedicated to all the Merseyside people who gave such a huge sacrifice during the two world wars. To their undying spirit and their ability to carry on against all odds, be it here at home or on foreign sea or soil.
Merseyside was created on 1 April, 1974 from areas previously parts of the administrative counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, along with the county boroughs of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Liverpool, Bootle, and St Helens.
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The purpose of this site is to remember the people of Liverpool and Merseyside who fought, worked and lived through world war one and world war two. To create a reminder of them by the people who knew them best, their relatives and friends.
The idea for this website came about after numerous conversations with people where it became apparent that they felt that their own relatives from the two world wars had nowhere to be remembered unless they had died in conflict. It is true that the men who died serving in the wars are far more easier to research than anyone else during those times, it is their names that lay on memorials. Yet at the time of the wars it was them that had died, most people were still here so the dead became the listed and the remembered, and rightly so as they had layed down their own lives. Now with the passage of time people want to recall their own relatives that lived through these trying times, and what they did. Hopefully this website can achieve that ambition and become a remembrance to Liverpool and Merseyside people during wartime.
If you have anyone that you would like to add to the site then please contact us on the email addresses listed at the bottom of this page and we would be honoured to add them. You can write a story on the person you want to submit or supply us with what details you have and we will add them, you can also add a photograph and a link to any website that you may have concerning that person. Feel free to add as many people as you wish, they will be added individualy and alphabetically. If all you have is a name and you know that they served at war or worked at home in munitions factory etc then you can still add then to the site. If you are unsure about anything then please contact us on one of the email addresses and we will talk you through it all.
What we want is anyone with a connection to Liverpool and the Merseyside area during either of the two world wars. servicemen who died or returned home, merchant Navy, munitions workers, home guard, ARP wardens, firefighters, dockers anyone who worked in Liverpool or the now Merseyside area. They dont have to have come from Liverpool or Merseyside, they may have served or worked here during one of the wars or been prisoner of war here. Mothers raising families, Children's stories of picking shrapnel or being evacuated. Stories of the Blitz and the bomb shelters, ships on the river, planes in the skies. sad and funny stories. The site is a remembrance for the people who lived and worked within the now Merseyside area, please feel free to add anyone from the now Merseyside County, including Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and the Wirral.
We thank each and every person who has contributed to this website. Without your stories none of this is possible.
Ged Fagan and Anthony Hogan
And this sites special guest and brave little soldier Lauren Robinson
Rest in Peace Little Angel
The idea for this website came about after numerous conversations with people where it became apparent that they felt that their own relatives from the two world wars had nowhere to be remembered unless they had died in conflict. It is true that the men who died serving in the wars are far more easier to research than anyone else during those times, it is their names that lay on memorials. Yet at the time of the wars it was them that had died, most people were still here so the dead became the listed and the remembered, and rightly so as they had layed down their own lives. Now with the passage of time people want to recall their own relatives that lived through these trying times, and what they did. Hopefully this website can achieve that ambition and become a remembrance to Liverpool and Merseyside people during wartime.
If you have anyone that you would like to add to the site then please contact us on the email addresses listed at the bottom of this page and we would be honoured to add them. You can write a story on the person you want to submit or supply us with what details you have and we will add them, you can also add a photograph and a link to any website that you may have concerning that person. Feel free to add as many people as you wish, they will be added individualy and alphabetically. If all you have is a name and you know that they served at war or worked at home in munitions factory etc then you can still add then to the site. If you are unsure about anything then please contact us on one of the email addresses and we will talk you through it all.
What we want is anyone with a connection to Liverpool and the Merseyside area during either of the two world wars. servicemen who died or returned home, merchant Navy, munitions workers, home guard, ARP wardens, firefighters, dockers anyone who worked in Liverpool or the now Merseyside area. They dont have to have come from Liverpool or Merseyside, they may have served or worked here during one of the wars or been prisoner of war here. Mothers raising families, Children's stories of picking shrapnel or being evacuated. Stories of the Blitz and the bomb shelters, ships on the river, planes in the skies. sad and funny stories. The site is a remembrance for the people who lived and worked within the now Merseyside area, please feel free to add anyone from the now Merseyside County, including Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and the Wirral.
We thank each and every person who has contributed to this website. Without your stories none of this is possible.
Ged Fagan and Anthony Hogan
And this sites special guest and brave little soldier Lauren Robinson
Rest in Peace Little Angel
The content for this site has been painstakingly researched over many years by myself, and the photographs have been allowed for use on this site only by the various sources and is therefore subject to my copyright. For use of the photographs on this site you must contact the sources direct, for use of the stories you must contact myself.
Anthony Hogan.
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This site first went online on 11th November 2009
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