That's a great picture, I've not seen it before.
It could well be when Pershing arrived,
Pathe clip here, though many thousands of Doughboys came via Liverpool on their way to the France. We had a few more pictures of the Doughboys marching around town in 1917 or so back near the start of the thread a good few years back.
There's an interesting article
here about the massive influx in 1917/18.
I loved the bit ...
This concern about local women and American soldiers was also reflected in editorial pieces. The Birkenhead News commented: “…it is impossible to overlook the reprehensible conduct of a large number of the young girls of Birkenhead.”[6] The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury published an article on 3rd October 1918 ‘Liverpool Girls and American Soldiers’. The report highlighted two girls who had been charged with loitering near the American camp in contravention of DORA regulations. Police commented they had had problems with loitering in this locality.Birkenhead girls....reprehensible conduct?... I'd never imagined that....
Of interest to me personally though is the camp at Knotty Ash as it was used again by the Yanks during the 2nd World War as a hospital and I believe after that war part of it became known as Springfield Nursing Home, the place I was born. It was finally closed and dismantled by 1960 I think, at least I have no recollection of it still being around by then, and the site became Springfield Park, but there's very little about it on the web and I think the site has now been partially submerged under the new Alder Hey development.
And not so much that picture, but vaguely connected on the general subject of the Yanks in Liverpool but during the 2nd World War, one of my old dear but long departed aunts told me that her most vivid memory was of watching the 'Colored' regiments ( the US Army was still segregated and that was their official title then) marching through town in columns in a relaxed but spectacular dancing fashion, a sort of ten steps forward and then a 360 degree turn on the spot and all done to a sort of swing/jazz music. I've seen a film clip of it years ago but can't find it today. She had nothing but good things to say about those lads that she met at various dances around town, she said they were absolute gentlemen. If anyone knows of the film clip, if you could post a link to it ta.