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VC1326    Ian Oswald Liddell

Name   Ian Oswald Liddell    No.      

VC Issue No.   1326   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Coldstream Guards, 5th Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Temporary Captain

Rank End Of Career   Temporary Captain

Place Of Birth   Shanghai, China

Place Of Death   near Rothenburg, Germany

Buried/Location Ashes    Becklingen War Cemetery, Soltau, 30 miles south-west of Hamburg, Germany

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   RC Section, Plot III, Row D, Grave 13

Gazetted    7 June 1945

VC Presented   12 February 1946, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Becklingen War Cemetery, Soltau, 30 miles south-west of Hamburg, Germany

Victoria Cross Memorial, Speech Room, Harrow School, North West London

Named on War Memorial, The Crypt, Harrow School, North West London

P  Named on Oak Panel, The Church of Saint Andoenus, Mounton, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales

P  Original Grave Cross, The Church of Saint Andoenus, Mounton, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales

P  War Memorial, St Thomas a'Becket Church, Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales

P  Plate on Alter Rail, St Thomas a'Becket Church, Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales

P  War Memorial outside, St Thomas a'Becket Church, Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales

Named on Gate Pier, St Andrews School, Eastbourne, East Sussex

P  Liddell Road, Windsor, Berkshire

By The Way…

VC Held By

Coldstream Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England

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BORN    19 October 1919

DIED   21 April 1945   AGE    25

VC Won  3 April 1945  AGE   25

Place VC Won   near Lingen, Germany

War/Campaign   Second World War