The Story of the "9th King's" in France

The narrative traces a Liverpool volunteer corps formed by printing-trade workers into a numbered rifle volunteer battalion and later a volunteer battalion of a county regiment, recounting prewar service including a company sent to South Africa and the unit's place in the Territorial Force. It then follows the battalion's mobilization for the Western Front, detailing marches, billets in ruined villages, trench rotations near Arras, liaison with French units, training, supply and musketry issues, the severe hardships of mud and cold and inadequate revetting, high officer casualties and subsequent promotions, and concludes with divisional assignments and a catalogue of decorations.