World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Jack Adams Liddell
Forename(s):
Jack Adams
Surname:
Liddell
Initial(s):
J A
Service Number:
23827
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Royal Army Medical Corps
Died:
24/09/1916
Aged:
35
Buried:
Alnwick Cemetery, Northumberland
Service History:
Enlisted on 14 May 1915 at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland while working as a Painter at Northumberland War Hospital, Gosforth.
Discharged on 18 January 1916 as medically unfit for further active service because of Pulmonary Tubercullosis
Background:
Born about 1882, the son of James & Martha Liddell, of Woodbine Cottage, Alnwick, Northumberland.
James Liddle (Sic; This was the spelling of the surname on the 1891 Census available via 'Find My Past.com') was a Coachman.
Liddell, his parents & two older brothers, Robert & William J., were all born in Scotland. His younger brother, James, &, in 1891, a younger sister, Jessie, were both born at Alnwick, which suggests the family moved to Northumberland in the mid-1880s.
Local Memorial:
Alnwick Cemetery
