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Rfmn. William Lewis
British Army 10th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
from:58 Rutland Street, South Belfast
(d.1st July 1916)
William James Lewis was the son of William James Lewis and Ellen Lewis of 58 Rutland Street, South Belfast. He was my Grandfather's brother. William joined the Royal Irish Rifles, 36th Ulster Division and was sent to war in France on 4th of October 1915. As part of the 107th brigade he was attached to the 4th division Nov 1915 until Feb 1916 to receive trench warfare instruction, and on the 7th Feb 1916 he was moved to the front line between the river Ancre and the Mailly - Maillet to Secre Road. In March 1916 he was moved to Thiepval Wood. He was killed in on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme Rifleman William Lewis 15157, 10th Bn, Royal Irish Rifles is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. I believe William was also the company Bugler.
My grandfather Wilfred Lewis was 6 years younger than William so survived the great war, but we will never forget him or the sacrifice he made for our freedom.
L/Cpl William Patrick Lewis
British Army 4th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
I never knew my grandfather William Lewis as he passed away in 1937 from illness. I only ever knew the story as told in the newspaper clipping about the death of his brother Thomas Frederick Lewis.
Spr. William Howard Lewis
British Army 246th Base Park Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Swansea, Wales
William Lewis was the Son of John and Mary Ann Lewis of 50 Brunswick St., Swansea. He was buried in the Meana Di Susa Communal Cemetery in Italy. His grave was lost and he is commemorated by Kipling Memorial in same Cemetery. He was 41 when he died.
William John Lewis
Jack Lewis was my grandmother's brother. He was treated in Gifford House in 1916. Written on the back of this picture it says: "Jack at Gifford House after he came from Italy in 1916" (a black pen mark indicates Jack). I think Jack Lewis died in 1928, the family moved to Hitchin, Herts and there is a death certificate for a John Lewis St Alban's Herts in 1928, but I am not sure of this either. I am trying to find his war record.
Cpl. William Lewis
British Army 1st Garrison Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Falkirk, Scotland
(d.12th Jul 1918)
My great grandfather was William Lewis from Larbert, Falkirk.
He served in the Boer War with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and in WW1 with the Scottish Rifles as a corporal in the 1st Garrison Battalion, Meerut. He died of heatstroke on 12th of July 1918, and is buried at St. John's Church, Meerut. His headstone was erected by the officers and other ranks of the battalion.
Pte. William Lewthwaite
British Army 9th Btn. Black Watch
(d.25th September 1915)
William Lewthwaite, my great uncle was killed in 1st attack of the Battle of Loos 25th of September 1915.
Lt. E. A. Leybourne
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Charles Leyland MM.
British Army 76th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:371, Poulton Rd., Wallasey, Cheshire.
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. Patrick Collins Leys
British Army 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Catherine Street, Aberdeen
(d.25th Sep 1915)
2nd Lt. Spencer Henry Le_Marchant
British Army 6th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:Chobham, Surrey
(d.25th May 1915)
Spencer Le Marchant served with the 6th Royal Fusiliers.
Sgt. Frank Thomas Libby MM.
British Army 5th Btn. London Regiment
from:Croydon, Surrey
(d.19th April 1918)
Frank Libby was posted to 1st/28th Bn. Artists' Rifles, he died of wounds on the 19th of April 1918, received at Mailly-Maillet on 2nd of April. He is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery in France. The Military Medal was awarded for conspicuous Bravery at Passchendaele, on the 20th of September 1917. He was the son of John and Emily Harriet Libby, of Croydon, Surrey.
Pte. George Lichfield
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
Pte. Charles Frederick Lickiss
British Army 9th Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment
from:Husthwaite, Easingwold, Yorkshire
(d.21 December 1915)
Charles Frederick Lickiss is my 1st cousin 3x removed and when I started researching about him, I discovered that so little is known. I haven't been able to find a picture of Charles but I did find references to him in military records.
He died at the 1st Canadian General Hospital in Etaples, France. He is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery, part 4, Etaples, France. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. When he died he had 3 pounds, 16 shillings and 3 pence saved and this was transferred to his mother Rosamond Lickiss, maiden name of Batty, who was living in Husthwaite, Yorkshire.
The Husthwaite Historical Society is researching their soldiers as well.
Sgt. Cyril Edward Lickman
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
In 1911, Cyril Lickman was in the 2nd Berkshires in India. He returned in 1914 (17yrs old), moved to Winchester, and was made Acting Sergeant for the 6th Berkshires, training the service battalion. He fought through the First World War, then re-joined in the Second World War. He survived and passed away in 1974.
Pte. Daniel Mackintosh Liddel
British Army 8th Btn. East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)
from:Croydon
(d.16th June 1917)
L/Cpl. Jeffrey Liddell
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.27th Mar 1915)
Jeffrey Liddell died of wounds and is buried in Byker and Heaton Cemetery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Capt. John Aidan Liddell
British Army 7 Sqd. Royal Flying Corps
from:Basingstoke
(d.31st Aug 1915)
Capt. John Liddell died 31st August 1915, aged 27 and was buried in Basingstoke South View or Old Cemetery. He served with 3rd Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders before transferring to 7 Squadron RFC. He was the son of John and Emily C. Liddell, of Sherfield Manor, Basingstoke.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated, 23rd Aug., 1915, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on 31st July, 1915. When on a flying reconnaissance over Ostend-Bruges-Ghent he was severely wounded (his right thigh being broken), which caused momentary unconsciousness, but by a great effort he recovered partial control after his machine had dropped nearly 3,000 feet, and notwithstanding his collapsed state succeeded, although continually fired at, in completing his course, and brought the aeroplane into our lines - half an hour after he had been wounded. The difficulties experienced by this officer in saving his machine, and the life of his observer, cannot be readily expressed, but as the control wheel and the throttle control were smashed, and also one of the under-carriage struts, it would seem incredible that he could have accomplished his task."
Captain John Aidan Liddell MC VC
British Army RFC 7 Squadron
from:Newcastle-upon-Tyne
(d.31st August 1915)
John Aidan Liddell was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 3rd August 1888. He studied zoology at Balliol College Oxford. At the outbreak of war he joined the 2nd Btn, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, where he was appointed Captain in command of the machine gun section of the Battalion. He was in the front line at Le Maisnil, France. He was wounded and invalided home, and received the award of the Military Cross on 14th January 1915.
Prior to the war Aidan Liddell had already obtained privately a flying certificate and, on being declared fit for further service, he joined the RFC. Ha was posted to No.7 Squadron in France on the 24th July 1915. On the 31st July, on only his second mission, his plane was attacked by ground fire during a reconnaissance patrol over Ostend in Belgium and he was seriously injured and the aircraft was badly damaged. Although he successfully returned to his base, and saved his observer Second Lieutenant R.H. Peck and his plane, his leg had to be amputated and he died of septicaemia a month later. For his courage and skill he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
Pte. Sidney John Liddell
Australian Imperial Force 29th Btn.
from:Marrickville, New South Wales
(d.26th Aug 1917)
Sidney Liddell served with the 29th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force during WW1 and died on the 26th September 1917, aged 29. He is buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery in Belgium. He was the son of William and Margaret Liddell; husband of Mary K. Liddell, of 168, Sydenham Rd., Marrickville, New South Wales.
Pte. T. Liddell
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. William Stewart Liddell
British Army 1/12th Btn. Royal Scots
from:Blackburn, West Lothian
(d.10th May 1917)
William Stewart Liddell was born in 1894 in parish of Livingstone, Linlithgowshire (more likely to be Blackburn, West Lothian) to Robert Liddell and Mary Stewart. He was one of nine children: Mary was born 1887, Maggie 1889, David 189?, William 1894, Robert 1896, Henry 1898, Thomas 1899, Euphemia 1902 and Jessie 1906. His will is dated 3rd April 1917 and he died 10th May 1917, aged 23 years.
Cpl. Alix Oliffe Liddle
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Sylvan Grove, Darlington
(d.16th Dec 1914)
Pte Liddle was killed during the Bombardment of Hartlepools and is buried in West Cemetery, Darlington. Alix Liddle was born in Darlington in 1889 the youngest son of Frances and James Liddle of Middleton Tyas. He married Clara Main on the 27th of april 1914. Before the war he was employed by Pease and Partners as a clerk in the accountants office. “At 8am on Wednesday, December 16, 1914, three German warships appeared out of the mist shrouding the sea off Hartlepool and, from a mile out, opened fire. It was a brutal exercise by the Germans to frighten complacent British civilians, who believed the war would be concluded in their favour by Christmas. The first shell, fired by the battle cruiser Seydlitz, landed beside the Heugh battery on the Headland and killed four members of the Durham Pals outright. They were, in alphabetical order, Privates Charles Clark and Theophilis Jones, both of West Hartlepool; Corporal Alix Liddle, of Darlington, and Private Leslie Turner, of Newcastle. The likelihood is that all four, including the colliery clerk from Darlington, died simultaneously. First, second, third or fourth, it matter not to Clara back home in Sylvan Grove. The following morning she received a telegram – official intimation from the War Office – saying Alix had been killed in action. After eight months of marriage, she was a widow. Seydlitz’s second shell landed practically in the same place as the first beside the Heugh Battery, killing four men who had gone to help their colleagues. They were Gunner William Houston, who was born in Middlesbrough; Gunner Robert Spence, born in West Hartlepool; Private Thomas Minks, from Middlesbrough, and Private Walter Rogers, who was born in Bishop Auckland." Northern Echo.
Pte. Robert William Liddle
British Army 1/7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Brandon Colliery, Durham
(d.1st June 1918)
Billy Liddle was the older brother of my grandfather. He enlisted on 22nd of August 1917, joining the 1/7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry on the 7th of April, 1918. From what I have learned he would've joined them at the Battle of Lys, and was captured and killed in action from Allied air bombardment. He is buried at the Anzac Cemetary, Sailly-Sur-La-Lys. His inscription reads, "We are the dead if Ye break faith with us we shall not sleep".
Pte. Samuel Liddle
British Army 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
from:Middleton, Lancs
My grandfather, Samuel Liddle, was born 10/9/1889 and enlisted to the Grenadier Guards pre-war in 1907 on his 18th birthday. His peacetime service was spent with 2nd Bttn in 1907 at Aldershot, 1908 Wellington Barracks London, 1909 in Chelsea Barracks London and 1910 Wellington Barracks where he would have carried out Palace Duties.
In October 1914 he was recalled to The Colours where he went with 1st Bttn to France and was counted as one of the "Old Contemptibles" disembarking at Zeebrugge from the "Turcoman" at 6am on 7th Oct 1914.
He served with 1st Bttn Guards 20th Infantry Brigade under Maj Gen T. Capper at 1st Ypres from 20th - 28th October 1914.He returned to England in 1915 on leave then was sent back to France to join 4th Bttn and remained with them till the end of the war and was discharged in February 1919. On 1/5/1918 he suffered "Gas shell poisoning".
My Grandfather was just an average soldier, no hero as such but by the sheer fact that he served his King and Country in the most horrific conflict ever he is considered by his family as a hero. He was, according to his service history absent on several occasions often referred to as cowardice (maybe?)(wrongly in most peoples opinion considering the horror) due to drunkenness! He served the full term of the war and died in the 1950's as an indirect result of the gassing in 1918.
I am currently trying to research his campaigns and movements and have been sent some very interesting documents from my sister Lynne who still lives in the UK so will update as soon as I can.
Sjt. T. W. Liddle
Army 2/8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Thomas Liddle
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Tantobie
(d.1st July 1916)
Thomas Liddle is named on the Thiepval Memorial
Sjt. W. Liddle
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. John Charles Lidgley
British Army 1st/21st (Surrey Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Hounslow
(d.15th Sep 1916)
John Charles Lidgley born approx. 1894, was a plumber in Hounslow Middlesex before the war. He married Annie Deeley in Feb 1916 and had a son also named John Charles Lidgley-Deeley who was born in Jan 1915.
John served with the 1st/21st (First Surrey Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment, and died on 15th September 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial at the Somme.
Pte. Arthur Edward Light
British Army 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment
from:Basingstoke
(d.15th April 1918)
As part of WWI centenary commemoration I have been given project to find out about two local soldiers.
Arthur Light was born in Edinburgh, the son of Mrs Emily Light of 24 Potters Lane, Basingstoke, Hampshire. He has no grave and his name is on one of the panels at Tyne Cot Memorial. Arthur was 20 when he died.
Pte. Earl Eustace Light
British Army 3rd Btn. Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:Birkenhead
My father, Earl Light, was born in Liverpool in 1896. He joined the Liverpool Regiment in 1914 in the 3rd Battalion and his number was 3/31924. We believe that the 3rd Battalion was a reserve battalion that never left the UK.
Sometime later he was in the Machine Gun Corps and his number was 3407. We don't know how or when he was transferred to the MGC, but as his service number was 3407, which was one of the earlier numbers of the MGC, we think he may have joined the MGC in late 1916 when the MGC was formed.
He was wounded twice and was sent to Alnwick Camp and is noted in the Liverpool Echo wounded list on 7th September 1917 and when fit again he was returned to the Front. It is thought that he was wounded in the 3rd Battle for Ypres between 30th July and 3rd August 1917.
He was discharged on 5th March 1919 with the report that he was fit and could be called up again if required. He died in February 1972
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