In 1914 the Liverpool Scottish was mobilised at the outset of war and moved to France on 1st/2nd November 1914, one of the first Territorial battalions to do so. At this stage of the war, officers still carried swords.... but not for long! The Battalion was made up from the outset of the war by men of high calibre, educated professionals and businessmen.

The first major battalion action of the Liverpool Scottish was on 16th. June 1915 in what is officially known as 'The First Action at Bellewaarde' which was designed to pin down German reserves whilst there were British and French attacks elsewhere.This action is known in The Liverpool Scottish as 'The Battle of Hooge'. Hooge is a village is a few miles East of Ieper (Ypres), straddling the Menin Road.

They were to be the left hand battalion and to their right was to be a battalion of the Lincolns. The battalion's frontage appears to have been about 400 yards. The assembly position was on the line of 'Cambridge Road', a feature which exists today as a metalled track running North from the Menin Road and a Liverpool Scottish memorial was unveiled and dedicated here on Saturday 29th July 2000 during the centenary year.

In 1920, The Liverpool Scottish reformed as the 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) TA but in 1937 was officially redesignated as The Liverpool Scottish, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders to become an integral Territorial battalion of the Cameron Highlanders. The bonnet badge changed to a Liverpool Scottish version of the Cameron badge. Colours were presented to the battalion by H.M. King George VI at Goodison Park football ground in 1938. A second battalion was formed immediately before the outbreak of war in 1939.

During the 1939-45 war, the 1st Battalion of The Liverpool Scottish remained in Great Britain but found many reinforcements for The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders battalions (and other Highland regiments) on active service overseas.

Additionally the 1st and 2nd. Battalions of the Liverpool Scottish provided a contingent for No. 4 Independent Company which went to Norway in 1940 to face the German invasion. Subsequently, many members served with the Commandos including Captain Donald Roy DSO, decorated for his courage and skill in the raid on St. Nazaire in 1942 in which many other Liverpool Scots took part. Donald Roy, known as 'The Laird', insisted that his men wore kilts both in training and in action. The 2nd. Battalion, The Liverpool Scottish, also supplied reinforcements for Highland regiments and, after serving in a home defence role, converted to the 89th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, disbanding in 1946. The 1st. Battalion served in Gibraltar from 1945 to 1947.

The 1st Battalion The Liverpool Scottish reformed at the Fraser Street Drill Hall in Liverpool in 1947 and, until its disbandment in 1967 when the Territorial Army was reorganised, it was firstly a motor battalion and then an infantry battalion. The battalion won the Territorial Army Shield in the Duke of Edinburgh's Trophy Competition in 1957 and 1960.

The Forbes tartan kilt (as with all other forms of dress) was retained. On leaving Fraser Street, a new HQ for the Territorial company was established at the TA barracks in Score Lane in Childwall (a Liverpool suburb) which had previously been Signal House. It was renamed Forbes House. The Liverpool Scottish tradition was thus blended for the next twenty five years with that of the famous 51st Highland Division.

In April 1967, The Liverpool Scottish reformed as V (The Liverpool Scottish) Company, 51st. Highland Volunteers AVR II with battalion HQ in Perth. The company adopted the Highland Brigade bonnet badge (a stag's head upon a saltire) worn on a cloth Forbes tartan background and continued to wear the blue hackle of The Queen's Own Highlanders. The Forbes tartan kilt (as with all other forms of dress) was retained. On leaving Fraser Street, a new HQ for the Territorial company was established at the TA barracks in Score Lane in Childwall (a Liverpool suburb) which had previously been Signal House. It was renamed Forbes House. The Liverpool Scottish tradition was thus blended for the next twenty five years with that of the famous 51st Highland Division.

In 1974, whilst V Company were attending its annual two weeks training in Cyprus, the government of Archbishop Makarios was overthrown by Greek nationalists. V Company was on exercise in the far west of the island at an isolated location in the Akamas Peninsula. This area was outside the Sovereign Base Areas. After some days of considerable uncertainty, punctuated by forest fires and the arrival of British service families stranded in the area together with resupply bt sea, the company was evacuated through the Greek areas around Paphos to the British Sovereign Base Area at Akrotiri. There they witnessed some of the civil strife which broke out between the two communities in Cyprus when the Turkish Army invaded the north of the island.

In July 1999, 50 Liverpool Scottish soldiers, retaining their distinctive bonnet badge, their Highland dress and their regimental customs, were redeployed under Lt Col David Richardson MBE to form part of a new Territorial infantry battalion, The King's and Cheshire Regiment.

This Brings us upto today and members of the Liverpool Scottish continue to train across the globe. Continuing the memory of past soldiers who fought under the same Banner and Name.