226740 Gnr. George Bernard Liddiard British Army 105th Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery from:Faringdon My dad George Liddiard was a grocer in the family business of G S Liddiard in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. He had lost the top of the fingers of his right hand when a boy in a chaff cutting machine and had learned to write left handed. He was still given A1 at his medical.
He enlisted at Arborfield in July 1940 and was posted to 205th Anti Aircraft Training Regiment where he was for 2 months. He was then posted to the 105th Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment. During this time he was based in the Orkneys as well as in many parts of southern England before going to Belgium in September 1944.
His regiment were at one time in Sint Niklaas hence me being named Nicholas and he also was at Belsen which had a major effect on his life.
With no planes to shoot down he became an infantryman mopping up on the way to Hamburg where he returned from early in 1946.
In his Release Book it says that his conduct was exemplary and it also says that his regiment was the 110th and not the 105th?
I am continually trying to find out more information about his regiment and there whereabouts during the war. From my memory of the little that he said he was near Scapa Flow, on the South East coast, in Coventry when the London blitz was on (he said the you could see the glow in the sky from there) and near Southampton prior to D-Day.
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