LIDDLE, Samuel
| Service Number: | 7270 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 January 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia , 19 August 1883 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Dealer |
| Died: | Cardiac Asthma, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 28 May 1919, aged 35 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-08. 80. |
| Memorials: | Cook's Hill Superior Public School |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7270, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 7270, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 10 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 7270, 2nd Infantry Battalion, RMS Osterley, Sydney | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 7270, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge, GSW right foot | |
| 8 May 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7270, 2nd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD wounding |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served in The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
101 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 28th May 1919, Private Samuel Liddle, 2nd Battalion, dealer from 49 Council Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, father of four, was laid to rest with a military funeral at Sandgate Cemetery, age 35. ANGLICAN 1-08. 80.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139446084
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139445876
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 19th August 1883 to Samuel and Elizabeth Liddle; husband of Sarah Ethel Liddle nee Dryden (married 1907, died 1933 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135564437 of 27 Council Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W.), Samuel enlisted January 1917 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 4.10.1917 (bullet wound left foot - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138748683), Samuel was invalided home March 1918, discharged May 1918.
His name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Death not due to war service - cardiac asthma.
I have placed poppies at Samuel’s gravesite in remembrance of his service for God, King and Country.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=463113#2
Lance Corporal John William Dryden (23/122), (Wife's brother) New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion, 3rd Trench Mortar Battery, of Mine Creek, Millerton, New Zealand, who fell on the 27th September 1918, memorialised same location.
Lest We Forget.
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