PRIVATE ROBERT AMBROSE HORROCKS
THE KING'S (LIVERPOOL REGIMENT)
1ST JULY 1916 AGE 28
BURIED: PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT, FRANCE
This is such a lovely, homely tribute from a mother to her eldest son. 'Bob', a lithographer in Liverpool in the 1911 census, served with the 19th battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment), which would suggest that he joined up in August 1915 when it was formed. The battalion arrived in France in November 1915 and on the 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, took part in the successful assault towards the town of Montauban. One hundred and fourteen men from Liverpool died that day; Bob Horrocks was one of them.