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/timeAircraftFoeResultLocationNotes
16 April 1918
@ 1545
Sopwith Camel
s/n C8220
Albatros CDriven down out of controlBrayShared with Captain Harry Robinson
215 May 1918
@ 0730
Sopwith Camel
s/n C8266
Pfalz D.IIIDriven down out of controlAchiet-le-PetitShared with Lieutenant G. C. Morris
327 May 1918
@ 1155
Sopwith Camel
s/n C1602
LVG CSet on fire & destroyedRibemont
427 June 1918
@ 2030
Sopwith Camel
s/n C8268
Albatros D.VDriven down out of controlEast of Albert
5@ 2040Sopwith Camel
s/n C8268
Pfalz D.IIIDriven down out of controlEast of Albert
61 July 1918
@ 0920
Sopwith Camel
s/n C8237
Albatros D.VDriven down out of controlBray
714 July 1918
@ 0700
Sopwith Camel
s/n C8268
Albatros CDestroyedEast of Bailleul
829 July 1918
@ 1915
Sopwith Camel
s/n C8265
Fokker D.VIIDriven down out of controlEast of Armentières
92 August 1918
@ 0710
Sopwith Camel
s/n C8268
Albatros CDestroyedSouth of Armentières
103 September 1918
@ 0910
Sopwith Camel
s/n E7167
Fokker D.VIIDestroyedSouth of Roulers
1115 September 1918
@ 1815
Sopwith Camel
s/n E7167
Fokker D.VIIDriven down out of controlHouthoulst
129 October 1918
@ 0930
Sopwith Camel
s/n E7161
LVG CDestroyedInglemunster
13@ 0945Sopwith Camel
s/n E7161
Fokker D.VIICapturedWest of MayerneineShared with Lieutenants Oscar Heron, E. A. Copp,
A. Webster & Kenneth Watson