Sydney Liversedge
Captain Sydney Tyndall Liversedge was an English World War I flying ace credited with 13 aerial victories.
Biography
Liversedge was born in Honley, Kirklees, Yorkshire, the son of James Arthur Liversedge and Ethelinda. His father was a cashier at a woollen mill.On 19 July 1917 he was commissioned from cadet to temporary second lieutenant on the General List of the Royal Flying Corps, and was appointed a flying officer and confirmed in his rank on 31 August.
Liversedge was posted to No. 70 Squadron RFC, flying the Sopwith Camel, in March 1918, which on 1 April, following the merging of the Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service to form the Royal Air Force became No. 70 Squadron RAF. Between 6 April and 9 October, during which, on 6 September, he was promoted to acting captain, he claimed victories over 13 German aircraft. He was transferred to the RAF's unemployed list in January 1919. After the war, he worked as a mechanical engineer before he died in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1979.
No. | Date/time | Aircraft | Foe | Result | Location | Notes |
1 | 6 April 1918 @ 1545 | Sopwith Camel s/n C8220 | Albatros C | Driven down out of control | Bray | Shared with Captain Harry Robinson |
2 | 15 May 1918 @ 0730 | Sopwith Camel s/n C8266 | Pfalz D.III | Driven down out of control | Achiet-le-Petit | Shared with Lieutenant G. C. Morris |
3 | 27 May 1918 @ 1155 | Sopwith Camel s/n C1602 | LVG C | Set on fire & destroyed | Ribemont | |
4 | 27 June 1918 @ 2030 | Sopwith Camel s/n C8268 | Albatros D.V | Driven down out of control | East of Albert | |
5 | @ 2040 | Sopwith Camel s/n C8268 | Pfalz D.III | Driven down out of control | East of Albert | |
6 | 1 July 1918 @ 0920 | Sopwith Camel s/n C8237 | Albatros D.V | Driven down out of control | Bray | |
7 | 14 July 1918 @ 0700 | Sopwith Camel s/n C8268 | Albatros C | Destroyed | East of Bailleul | |
8 | 29 July 1918 @ 1915 | Sopwith Camel s/n C8265 | Fokker D.VII | Driven down out of control | East of Armentières | |
9 | 2 August 1918 @ 0710 | Sopwith Camel s/n C8268 | Albatros C | Destroyed | South of Armentières | |
10 | 3 September 1918 @ 0910 | Sopwith Camel s/n E7167 | Fokker D.VII | Destroyed | South of Roulers | |
11 | 15 September 1918 @ 1815 | Sopwith Camel s/n E7167 | Fokker D.VII | Driven down out of control | Houthoulst | |
12 | 9 October 1918 @ 0930 | Sopwith Camel s/n E7161 | LVG C | Destroyed | Inglemunster | |
13 | @ 0945 | Sopwith Camel s/n E7161 | Fokker D.VII | Captured | West of Mayerneine | Shared with Lieutenants Oscar Heron, E. A. Copp, A. Webster & Kenneth Watson |