Great Britain. Army
King’s Regiment (Liverpool) First Battalion
Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers

British military in Halifax, N.S. collection. – 1893-1894. – 10 photographs.

The King’s regiment was formed in 1685 and numbered as the 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot in 1751. In 1881 the regiment was called the King’s Regiment (Liverpool). The First Battalion of the regiment was stationed for two-years in Nova Scotia, becoming the last battalion of the regiment to garrison in Canada. The Royal Engineers were stationed in Halifax from the 1740s until the first decade of the twentieth century. The Royal Artillery were also stationed there.

The collection consists of 10 sepia photographs pasted on board. Most of the photographs are captioned with the names of the men in the photographs. Col. Leach, V.C. is identified as being in one of the photographs. This is surely General Sir Edward Pemberton Leach (1847-1913) who won his V.C. in 1879 and rose of the rank of General with the Royal Engineers. One of them has “Notman Studio” printed on the photograph. There is a photograph of the Wellington Barracks.

Title based on the content of the collection.
Collection (50-2008) was acquired from Morris Norman in 2008.
Finding aid available as part of this description.
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Further accruals are not expected.