The fifty fifth was once a pre-war territorial department, recruited in a space extending northwards from the Mersey to the Lune. The divisional and of the brigade headquarters have been situated in Liverpool, the 3rd brigade in Lancaster. The divisional signal was once the pink rose of Lancaster and the infantry battalions got here from the King’s personal (R Lancaster), the King’s (Liverpool), the unswerving N Lancs and the S Lancs. The artillery, engineers, indications, shipping and scientific devices have been all special West Lancashire, the fixed troops have been the Lancashire Hussars (Yeomanry). among November 1914 and March 1915 8 battalions left the department for France to supply reinforcements for the BEF. In April an entire brigade, the North Lancashire, was once transferred to the 51st Highland department and having been redesignated third Highland Brigade went to France with that department in may possibly, whether or not they have been in kilts or now not isn't made transparent. In January 1916 the department used to be reformed in France, with the unique battalions returning, and numbered fifty fifth. thus it fought at the Somme at Guillemont, Ginchy, Flers-Courcelette and Morval. It took half in 3rd Ypres and used to be at Cambrai for the tank assault and the German counter-attack. In April 1918 the fifty fifth used to be engaged within the combating at the Lys through the German offensive, doing particularly good of their obdurate defence of Givenchy the place their memorial stands this present day bearing the inscription “They Win or die who put on the Rose of Lancashire.” by means of the top of the month they'd suffered 3,871 casualties and been provided 3 VCs. The department earned a excessive attractiveness, it received the top variety of VCs (12) one of the non-regular divisions together with the one double VC to be offered through the struggle, Capt Noel Chavasse RAMC, the MO of the 1/10th King’s (Liverpool) - the Liverpool Scottish. Appendices provide the citations for those VC awards, complete casualty information, totals of honours and awards and reproduce the 1st and final operation orders issued by means of the department (9 February 1916 and 10 November 1918). In all of the department had 35,701 casualties of which 6,520 have been dead.