Sorry can't help with any photos but my grt grandfather (John Gilleeney) also served in the Kings Liverpool Regiment (4th Extra Reserve) and has a similar number to your grandfather (11882). He was also injured and transferred to the Labour Corps and again has a similar number (413665). He served in the Labour Corps until given an Honourable Discharge on the 6th March 1919.
I would imagine that your grandfather would have served in the Boer War prior to WW1 and that was why he was in the Extra Reserve regiment.
Regards, Phil
I have also found Militia Attestation records for my grandfather. His number then was, 3648. 4th Battalion. LKR. He enlisted on 8th July 1896. He was then 18years 4 months old. It gives his description as being 5 ft 5inches, 114 lbs. sandy hair, complexion fair, brown eyes.
EDIT: There is a note in red on these Attestation papers, which reads... "Lpool Reg 25/9/1896."
I got some advice from a member of the Great War Forum about this attestation record, which is... quote:
"William H never served in the Militia - I think he "Attested" (8/7/1896), but changed his mind and then enlisted as a "Regular" into the Kings Regt on the 25th September 1896, which I conclude from the red handwriting - these Militia Documents would then have become unused.
If he has joined as a regular into the Kings he would have automatically been renumbered, again a four figure number. His terms of service in 1896 would have been "7 & 5" - seven years with the Colours and five years with the Reserve. If this is correct then he would have been
Discharged to Reserve and civilian life in 1903, at the end of the Boer War. If this is the case then his complete Discharge would have been 1908, with no further obligations.
At the outbreak of the War he was probably impelled to re-enlist, this would account for him being re-numbered with a five figure regular number, his old regular number now dufuct.
What you need to look at is the "Muster Rolls" for the Regular Kings battalions as my instincts and these documents are telling me he was a pre-war regular." Unquote.
Could he have served in the Boer War ?
Would there be any records of LKR soldiers of the Boer War ?
HG2